Originally Posted by interventor1212:
Rocky,
Park 51 applied for $5 million in federal funds.
From the Daily Beast:
"Developers of the controversial Park51 Islamic community center and mosque located two blocks from ground zero earlier this month applied for roughly $5 million in federal grant money set aside for the redevelopment of lower Manhattan after the attacks of September 11, according to two sources with direct knowledge of the matter."
http://www.thedailybeast.com/a...ml?cid=hp:mainpromo2
How many Jimi could you fit in a really small car?
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As is typical of right wing posts, yours omitted the following paragraph from the link you cited, which could have gone far toward injecting some useful factuality and common sense into the discussion:
"Park51’s developers clearly have a legal right to apply for the grant. A list of Frequently Asked Questions that accompanied the application specifically states that religious organizations can make funding requests for capital projects “as long as the request is for a facility or portion of a facility that is dedicated to non-religious activities or uses.” According to an individual familiar with the Park51 application, it requests funds to cover a number of cultural, educational and community development aspects of the proposed 13-story building—but the prayer room is excluded from the grant application."
Of course you were not obliged to include this material, since you did post a link to the full article. But in the interest of educating less-energetic readers (i.e. ultra-rightist drones who prefer to hear only their side of the story and are thus unlikely to read the full item), I am providing the above highly-relevant quotation.
In Manhattan, property is so valuable and scarce that a builder of a new structure is required to build to a minimum height, something like 10 stories. Thus, the major tenant/owner, who does not need that much space, often shares the building with one or more other occupants.