A part of the landing gear, apparently from one of the commercial airliners destroyed on September 11, 2001, is seen wedged between two buildings in New York in this handout photo released by the NYPD on April 26, 2013.

Nearly 12 years after the attack on the World Trade Center, the landing gear was discovered wedged between the rear of 51 Park Place and the rear of the building behind it at 50 Murray Street.

The discovery was made on Wednesday by a construction crew inspecting the rear of the Park Place building. The location is the site of an Islamic prayer space and community center that opened amid controversy in the fall of 2011, two blocks from Ground Zero.

The piece of landing gear, wedged one story above ground, is about 5 feet high and 3 feet wide (0.9 meter).

Police have secured the area between the buildings and are treating it as a potential crime scene.

[Photo/Agencies]