An interesting long article in the Staten Island paper this Sunday. You'll be asked for zip code, gender and birthyear to view it:
Click Here 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.
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.
