[lit-ideas] Re: Bloomberg's "Ayatollah-Like Power grab"
- From: Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 13:25:13 -0700
Excerpt from
http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2010/08/16/100816taco_talk_hertzberg#ixzz0wEhEwU4H
Where the "Ground Zero mosque" is concerned, opposition is roughly
proportional to distance, even in New York. According to a recent poll,
Manhattanites are mostly for it, Staten Islanders mostly against.
Community Board No. 1 endorsed it, twenty-nine to one. That's the
council that represents a corner of Manhattan that includes both Park51
and the 9/11 site---and us, too, in the not too distant future. The New
Yorker is set to move from 4 Times Square to 1 World Trade Center, once
it gets built. Opinion here is divided, depending on whether one's
subway ride will be longer or shorter. No one has a problem with Park51.
Last Tuesday, after the city's Landmarks Preservation Commission, in a
unanimous vote, gave Park51 a green light, Mayor Michael Bloomberg
celebrated the occasion with a speech that, in its gruff eloquence, will
be remembered as a high point in his distinguished tenure. "We may not
always agree with every one of our neighbors," he said. [...]
Robert Paul
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