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Whatever Happened to the National Lighthouse Museum? - 09/18/05 11:55 PM
An interesting long article in the Staten Island paper this Sunday. You'll be asked for zip code, gender and birthyear to view it:
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Lots of finger-pointing and missed opportunities. Looks like there's still a chance, but not much of one for it to happen. It's been 7 years since Staten Island was selected.
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Lots of finger-pointing and missed opportunities. Looks like there's still a chance, but not much of one for it to happen. It's been 7 years since Staten Island was selected.
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The lamp could soon be extinguished on the National Lighthouse Museum in St. George. Awarded to Staten Island with great fanfare in 1998, the museum seemed the first ripple in a wave of waterfront revitalization that eventually resulted in a $78 million minor league ballpark and a new ferry terminal.
But the museum itself remained a paper dream over the years, as founders failed to follow through on their pledge to privately raise the $15 million needed to open the doors of the first museum dedicated to documenting a fast-vanishing part of the nation's nautical history.
Those same people, meanwhile, said in interviews that they wrestled all the way with an often less-than-supportive city Economic Development Corp. (EDC), which owns the 10-acre site located next to the St. George Ferry Terminal.
But the museum itself remained a paper dream over the years, as founders failed to follow through on their pledge to privately raise the $15 million needed to open the doors of the first museum dedicated to documenting a fast-vanishing part of the nation's nautical history.
Those same people, meanwhile, said in interviews that they wrestled all the way with an often less-than-supportive city Economic Development Corp. (EDC), which owns the 10-acre site located next to the St. George Ferry Terminal.