Orthodox ping!
Give them the Muslims’ building and call it even.
At first, the they wanted to put the garage right on the Towers’ footprints! What a fight *that* was! When they saw the public’s outrage, they moved the garage next door and basically “appropriated” this little church’s land.
With all the backing of the “Ground Zero Mosque,” there was little more than silence about the plight of the Greek Orthodox. The only ones I’ve heard discussing this subject are Steve Malzberg and Mark Levin.
This whole project has been outrageous. Libeskind won an international land use/design competition - his original design for the Freedom Tower is not the building going up. Silverstein, the lessee, basically took it away from him by putting his architect on the project. An architect who, along with his design group, was one of the loser finalists (very ugly design!) in said competition.
The Ground Zero project is nothing but bad politics, and this Christian congregation has been caught in the middle, with none of the support that the Muslims had.
Port Authority of NY/NJ may be the most corrupt organization around NYC, interesting this church raises that issue, again... Awesome picture of the church from the ground prior to the towers falling, I remember looking down on that church from way above, from within the WTC...
the Port Authority is full of back stabbers and useless executives who lie..