Posted on 08/03/2010 9:54:31 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission "responsible for identifying and designating the City's landmarks and the buildings in the City's historic districts" has decided not to assign landmark status to a building on Park Place, two blocks north of Ground Zero.
After the board's unanimous vote, its chairman, Robert B. Tierney, said the structure, which previously home to a Burlington Coat Factory, "does not rise to the level of an individual landmark."
Having surmounted the hurdle, a developer is now free to change or demolish the 152-year-old structure, clearing the way for the construction of a controversial $100 million, 13-story Islamic community center, which would include a mosque.
Last week, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) joined a loud chorus of opposition to such a facility near Ground Zero, whose ranks include Sarah Palin and several other politicians and activists.
"Some legitimate questions have been raised about who is providing the funding to build it, and what connections, if any, its leaders might have with groups whose ideologies stand in contradiction to our shared values," the ADL said in a statement.
Ultimately, this is not a question of rights, but a question of what is right. In our judgment, building an Islamic center in the shadow of the World Trade Center will cause some victims more pain unnecessarily, and that is not right.
Many critics of the community center, which is also known as the Cordoba House and Park51, say that there is no reason it needs to be built so close to Ground Zero.
The Wall Street Journal published a letter to Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the man charged with planning the community center, from Dan Senor an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a resident of Lower Manhattan, previously a senior adviser to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq.
"While we continue to stand with you and your right to proceed with this project, we see no reason why it must necessarily be located so close to the site of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks," he wrote. "Those attacks, as you well know, were committed in the name of Islam."
We applaud and thank every Muslim throughout the world who has rejected and denounced this association. But the fact remains that in the minds of many who are swayed by the most radical interpretations of Islam, the Cordoba House will not be seen as a center for peace and reconciliation. It will rather be celebrated as a Muslim monument erected on the site of a great Muslim "military" victory a milestone on the path of the further spread of Islam throughout the world.
According to The New York Times, today's meeting "was free of much of the vitriol that had marked previous hearings."
One by one, members of the commission debated the aesthetic significance of the building, designed in the Italian Renaissance Palazzo style by an unknown architect.
Before the hearing, Elisabeth de Bourbon, a spokeswoman for the Landmarks Preservation Commission, said that, "what we're looking at is whether the building has the architectural and historic significance to the city of New York to merit landmark designation." In other words, its members were not asked to consider the planned use of the structure or site.
The question is now this: Will the rank and file union tradesmen build the mosque or will they cave to the union leadership that kowtows to Obastard and political correctness?
Re:Obama as POTUS we were warned in an opinion column of the NYTimes.
No media reported this widely
read this carefully
That’s an easy one. The unions have shown themselves beholden to the dollar above all else.
How is it that some towns/neighborhoods can vote out a Hooters or Walmart just because... but not this crap?
That would be *wrong*! ;-)
You don't get to New York much,do ya?
It really makes sense when you consider the dirtbags that New Yorkers put in office.
While I think that killing the project is a slap in the face of the First Amendment, and a sign that we’ve lost, I think it’s more important to also build a church and a temple next door.
Were I to live in NYC, I’d bring my dog waste and pork bones & refuse to the site as often as possible.
They’re building it not to serve an existing community, but what they hope will be a much, much larger one in the future. Islam is expanding, and they hope someday to have millions of American Muslims coming to New Mecca aka New York, the site of one of their great triumphs.
This is an existential threat to the US. For all his flaws, I don’t hit W with cheap slams like some here because he remains one of the few political leaders who gets this.
I've read that a number of polls indicate that something like one third of Americans believe that 9/11 was an "inside job".If it's one third nationwide it's gotta be one half (or more) in NYC.
Can you imagine the FDNY having to fight a fire in that building?
Trying to imagine a fire in that building....
Thanks for the non-answer.
They couldn’t pay me to go to NY.
So we’re all pissed off. Let’s get past that and on to actions. Legal eagles out there:
What process or procedures lawsuit-wise can we do? Does anyone know of what filings have been done so far and what the process is from here on out? I’m dumb as a rock, so please explain assuming that. Thanks
The "answer" was understood.To spell it out..New York City is liberal.It's liberal in a crazy,illogical,dangerous,Bill Ayers kind of way.It's liberal in a way and to a degree that many (including you?) can't even begin to comprehend.
Stick around here for a while and you'll understand.
Let them spend their money and build it. Then when it’s occupied, we can call these folks: http://www.building-implosions.com/
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The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission -- "responsible for identifying and designating the City's landmarks and the buildings in the City's historic districts" -- has decided not to assign landmark status to a building on Park Place, two blocks north of Ground Zero... Having surmounted the hurdle, a developer is now free to change or demolish the 152-year-old structure, clearing the way for the construction of a controversial $100 million, 13-story Islamic community center, which would include a mosque.
Doesn't have the authority??? I don't know whether to LOL or facepalm that. Have you never heard of zoning law?
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