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9/11 museum at Ground Zero will charge for admission, angering family members of victims
The Board of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum voted last week to charge admission to the museum, with the dollar amount expected to be $20-$25, upsetting some victims’ family members.
By Corky Siemaszko
The museum in the crucible of America’s pain will be charging admission.
People making the pilgrimage to Ground Zero will have to pony up anywhere from $20 to $25 to descend into the new subterranean museum when it finally opens next year.
And, unlike some other museums in the city, the National September 11 Memorial & Museum at Ground Zero will charge a mandatory fee — not just a suggested donation — for the privilege.
“We’re still in the process of considering how much, but it will be in the range of $20 to $25,” Anthony Guido, a spokesman for the museum said Friday. “It will be a set fee.”
Entrance to the memorial itself — which includes the picturesque reflection pools marking the footprints of the twin towers — will continue to be free, though a $2 service fee for online reservations was recently put in place.
But word of the planned museum entrance fee outraged some relatives of the roughly 3,000 people slain on 9/11.
“It’s ridiculous,” said retired FDNY Deputy Chief Jim Riches of Dyker Heights, Brooklyn, who lost his firefighter son Jimmy. “We asked for a memorial and they’ve turned this into a P.T. Barnum production. These people are trying to make money off the worst day in American history.”
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Cybergeddon (E1-The Push of a Button)
Today I will begin posting episodes from the web series, Cybergeddon. FBI Agent Chloë Jocelyn goes on the run for a cyber-crime she didn’t commit. She discovers that the greatest cybercriminal Gustov Dobreff may be behind it all. Why? Will Chloë be able to bring down Dobreff and clear her name? Follow the adventures weekly. Cybergeddon was created by Anthony E. Zuiker (CSI franchise) and stars Missy Peregrym, Erfan Elias Edraki, and Kick Gurry.
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The ‘pay to grieve’ 9/11 museum is a national disgrace
The National September 11 Memorial & Museum (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
By Sally Regenhard
The world’s most expensive memorial — the National September 11th Memorial and Museum — nearly became a fiscal flatliner, it was learned this week.
If it weren’t for billionaire mayor and 9/11 memorial-museum chairman Mike Bloomberg’s “loan” of $15 million, the $700 million museum would have been history before it opened.
Now, the world will find out what some of the more dogged 9/11 family members have known for years: It will be a “pay to grieve” museum, charging as much as $25 a head.
What is wrong with this picture?
None of the 9/11 family members that I have worked with ever wanted a billion-dollar money pit; all we hoped for was a simple, uplifting, honorable and patriotic memorial for all who were lost that terrible September day.
Instead, we have a “money is no object” monstrosity inflicted upon us — a design we did not choose, and which we bear no responsibility for — that was incredibly expensive to build and even more logic-defying to maintain.
In order to pay for this, taxpayers across America have had to pony up hundreds of millions. Donations from individuals and corporations brought in hundreds of millions more. And yet, it wasn’t enough.
It’s no wonder, given the fact that the dangerous, dishonorable and expensive design was fiscally out of control from day one — a fact that I and many of the 9/11 families continuously raised, but to no avail.
On top of that, the salaries of the top ten memorial-museum officials exceeds $3 million annually.
The museum admission charge is the final insult. Officials have floated a $25 entry price. How dare they charge visitors to pay respects to those lost on 9/11, including my son, a firefighter and recon Marine sergeant?
If his USMC brothers and friends from all over the country want to pay him respect, they have to pay Bloomberg & Co. $25 first.
What a crime! How many families could afford to pay that?
The memorial-museum planners should be ashamed of themselves. Now is not the time to tell the public that not only is the construction budget blown, but the operating budget is shot as well.
This is a national disgrace.
Regenhard is on the board of the 9/11 Parents & Families of Firefighters and WTC Victims.
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