Posted on 08/10/2011 8:01:53 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Statue of Liberty will close for a year as it undergoes a $27.25 million renovation that officials say will make the interior safer and more accessible.
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced the renovation work on Wednesday.
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We have a statue of Liberty - we now need a statue of Responsibility to go with it.
If Obama is re-elected, the statue may never reopen.
Replacing the torch with hammer and sIckle?
More accessible nowadays means Tranny bathrooms.
Again? Doesn’t seem all that long ago it was surrounded by scaffolding. They fixed the arm with the torch because somehow it was put together wrong initially. Oh well, I won’t be back in NYC anytime soon, so snoozerville.
and more accessible.
Does this really need to be done or is it this more pandering to people in wheel chairs?
A few million here, a few million there...
It never ends.
Adding a boob-belt?
IIRC, that work was done @ 1986.
Don’t give them any ideas!!!
I’m still glad I insisted on visiting in 1996. My friends and I climbed up to the top an got to look out of the crown.
It’s sad that my kids will never be able to do the same.
I’d rather see another $27 million skimmed off the deficit.
Oooopsy, seems like only yesterday ;)
Liberty closed to the public for the rest of Obama’s term? Sounds about right.
Wasn’t it “renovated” from top to bottom with scaffolding from ground to the tip of the torch just a few years ago?
Sounds like a money disposal operation to me.
A bit symbolic.... or irony? Or I dunno....
I did too...but somehow, on the way over on the ferry we ‘missed’ the warnings about the spiral staircase. Oh my. When we made our way back down, I wanted a ‘I survived the climb to the top of the Statue of Liberty’ t-shirt.
We did that trip in November of 2000. We also went up to the top of World Trade Center when we came back to Battery Park. I have always thought of the random tourists who were there on 9/11 (along with all those lost that day).
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