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NEW YORK Ignoring jeers and cries of "Shame on you," a city commission on Tuesday denied landmark status to a building near the World Trade Center site that can now be demolished to make way for an Islamic community centre and mosque.
The Landmarks Preservation Commission said in voting 9-0 that the 152-year-old building isn't distinctive enough to qualify as a landmark.
"This is not a building of special esthetic character," said Commissioner Diana Chapin, echoing the remarks of her colleagues.
The property is two blocks north of the site of the World Trade Center, which was destroyed in Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. Landmarks Commissioner Stephen Byrns said the building's proximity to the site, and the fact that it was struck by airplane debris during the attacks, does not qualify it as a landmark.
The proposed mosque has emerged as a national political issue, with prominent Republicans from ...
NEW YORK Ignoring jeers and cries of "Shame on you," a city commission on Tuesday denied landmark status to a building near the World Trade Center site that can now be demolished to make way for an Islamic community centre and mosque.
The Landmarks Preservation Commission said in voting 9-0 that the 152-year-old building isn't distinctive enough to qualify as a landmark.
"This is not a building of special esthetic character," said Commissioner Diana Chapin, echoing the remarks of her colleagues.
The property is two blocks north of the site of the World Trade Center, which was destroyed in Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. Landmarks Commissioner Stephen Byrns said the building's proximity to the site, and the fact that it was struck by airplane debris during the attacks, does not qualify it as a landmark.
The proposed mosque has emerged as a national political issue, with prominent Republicans from ...
MANCHESTER, Conn. A warehouse driver who was asked to resign his job at a beer distributor went on a shooting rampage Tuesday morning that left nine people dead, including himself, and others wounded, company and government officials said.
The number of dead was confirmed by a Connecticut government official who was not authorized to speak publicly and spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity.
Authorities were notifying victims' relatives before confirming the number of deaths, state police Lt. J. Paul Vance said.
The driver, Omar Thornton, had worked at the distributor for a couple of years and been called in for a disciplinary hearing, said John Hollis of the Connecticut Teamsters labour union, who was with company officials at the scene of the shooting.
Hollis would not say why Thornton was being disciplined. When police found him, he had been shot, Manchester police Lt. Joe San ...
MANCHESTER, Conn. A warehouse driver who was asked to resign his job at a beer distributor went on a shooting rampage Tuesday morning that left nine people dead, including himself, and others wounded, company and government officials said.
The number of dead was confirmed by a Connecticut government official who was not authorized to speak publicly and spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity.
Authorities were notifying victims' relatives before confirming the number of deaths, state police Lt. J. Paul Vance said.
The driver, Omar Thornton, had worked at the distributor for a couple of years and been called in for a disciplinary hearing, said John Hollis of the Connecticut Teamsters labour union, who was with company officials at the scene of the shooting.
Hollis would not say why Thornton was being disciplined. When police found him, he had been shot, Manchester police Lt. Joe San ...
MANCHESTER, Conn. A warehouse driver who was asked to resign his job at a beer distributor went on a shooting rampage Tuesday morning that left nine people dead, including himself, and others wounded, company and government officials said.
The number of dead was confirmed by a Connecticut government official who was not authorized to speak publicly and spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity.
Authorities were notifying victims' relatives before confirming the number of deaths, state police Lt. J. Paul Vance said.
The driver, Omar Thornton, had worked at the distributor for a couple of years and been called in for a disciplinary hearing, said John Hollis of the Connecticut Teamsters labour union, who was with company officials at the scene of the shooting.
Hollis would not say why Thornton was being disciplined. When police found him, he had been shot, Manchester police Lt. Joe San ...
MANCHESTER, Conn. A warehouse driver who was asked to resign his job at a beer distributor went on a shooting rampage Tuesday morning that left nine people dead, including himself, and others wounded, company and government officials said.
The number of dead was confirmed by a Connecticut government official who was not authorized to speak publicly and spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity.
Authorities were notifying victims' relatives before confirming the number of deaths, state police Lt. J. Paul Vance said.
The driver, Omar Thornton, had worked at the distributor for a couple of years and been called in for a disciplinary hearing, said John Hollis of the Connecticut Teamsters labour union, who was with company officials at the scene of the shooting.
Hollis would not say why Thornton was being disciplined. When police found him, he had been shot, Manchester police Lt. Joe San ...
MANCHESTER, Conn. A warehouse driver who was asked to resign his job at a beer distributor went on a shooting rampage Tuesday morning that left nine people dead, including himself, and others wounded, company and government officials said.
The number of dead was confirmed by a Connecticut government official who was not authorized to speak publicly and spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity.
Authorities were notifying victims' relatives before confirming the number of deaths, state police Lt. J. Paul Vance said.
The driver, Omar Thornton, had worked at the distributor for a couple of years and been called in for a disciplinary hearing, said John Hollis of the Connecticut Teamsters labour union, who was with company officials at the scene of the shooting.
Hollis would not say why Thornton was being disciplined. When police found him, he had been shot, Manchester police Lt. Joe San ...
MANCHESTER, Conn. A warehouse driver who was asked to resign his job at a beer distributor went on a shooting rampage Tuesday morning that left nine people dead, including himself, and others wounded, company and government officials said.
The number of dead was confirmed by a Connecticut government official who was not authorized to speak publicly and spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity.
Authorities were notifying victims' relatives before confirming the number of deaths, state police Lt. J. Paul Vance said.
The driver, Omar Thornton, had worked at the distributor for a couple of years and been called in for a disciplinary hearing, said John Hollis of the Connecticut Teamsters labour union, who was with company officials at the scene of the shooting.
Hollis would not say why Thornton was being disciplined. When police found him, he had been shot, Manchester police Lt. Joe San ...
MANCHESTER, Conn. A warehouse driver who was asked to resign his job at a beer distributor went on a shooting rampage Tuesday morning that left nine people dead, including himself, and others wounded, company and government officials said.
The number of dead was confirmed by a Connecticut government official who was not authorized to speak publicly and spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity.
Authorities were notifying victims' relatives before confirming the number of deaths, state police Lt. J. Paul Vance said.
The driver, Omar Thornton, had worked at the distributor for a couple of years and been called in for a disciplinary hearing, said John Hollis of the Connecticut Teamsters labour union, who was with company officials at the scene of the shooting.
Hollis would not say why Thornton was being disciplined. When police found him, he had been shot, Manchester police Lt. Joe San ...
MANCHESTER, Conn. A warehouse driver who was asked to resign his job at a beer distributor went on a shooting rampage Tuesday morning that left nine people dead, including himself, and others wounded, company and government officials said.
The number of dead was confirmed by a Connecticut government official who was not authorized to speak publicly and spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity.
Authorities were notifying victims' relatives before confirming the number of deaths, state police Lt. J. Paul Vance said.
The driver, Omar Thornton, had worked at the distributor for a couple of years and been called in for a disciplinary hearing, said John Hollis of the Connecticut Teamsters labour union, who was with company officials at the scene of the shooting.
Hollis would not say why Thornton was being disciplined. When police found him, he had been shot, Manchester police Lt. Joe San ...