Freedom Center Banned From WTC Site

Apparently for months there has been talks of building a Freedom Center at the site of the World Trade Center. The center would have been part museum, part memorial, and in either case, many people who lost friends and relatives saw it as offensive. The project has been effectively killed by a grass roots effort.

We have to say we're a bit dissappointed, not because we really wanted to see a Freedom Center, but becasue such a site would likely have brought people to lower Manhattan even on the weekends when the area is essentially empty. Since the WTC is an important transit hub Hudson County residents use to enter the city, we think encouraging activity of any kind at the site is important. And everyone knows that the only way to get the MTA to provide better weekend subway service to the WTC stop where the PATH terminates is to offer something to attract tourists, who the MTA seems to think are the only people who ride the subway.