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LSP Public Meeting on
Skyline-blocking 9/11 Memorial Design

This design separates instead of connects us to where the tragedy occurred.

Wednesday August 16 6:30 pm to dark
Organized and hosted, with respect and dignity, by The Friends of LSP

Park Users’ Participation is Urgently Needed


Location of the Public Meeting:
The chairs will be in the "North Field" near the CRRNJ Terminal in LSP's NE corner, next to the parking lot at end of Zapp Drive, the cobblestone road, and next to the Memorial Hill which blocks skyline, Ground Zero, & river views.
Rainsite – Inside the Terminal Concourse.

The design includes the Hill, that will be 10 ft high and two stainless steel walls, 200 ft long and 30 ft high, next to historic 1889 Terminal.

All people who care about LSP are urged to attend this important public meeting. Transcripts of public comments will be sent to Trenton. The Friends had asked and patiently waited for NJDEP Commissioner Jackson and Governor Corzine to hold a public meeting, but they haven’t, so we’re holding this approved public meeting so people can express their opinions and learn about this memorial. Please attend to speak and/or hear fellow park users.

This controversial 9/11 Memorial "Hill and Walls" design blocks sacred and important NYC skyline/river views. The design was undemocratically approved with no public input. It isn’t too late for the Governor to terminate this obstruction of the "national shrine" of the NYC/river view, and to revise this design or have a DEP public meeting on the 8 (from 320) finalists chosen by Jury.

Background Material : www.folsp.org click on 9/11 Memorial Design box in middle of middle row.
Architect's website with images http://www.schwartzarch.com/nj911memorial.htm
The Friends of LSP pesinliberty@earthlink.net 201-792-1993

Dear Supporters of LSP,
I urge everyone to try to come to this decisive public meeting for people to express their views and/or to listen to fellow park supporters. It would be great also if you would email Governor at

If you haven't done so, please drive to the end of Audrey Zapp Drive to see the Hill (going down to 10 feet, a couple feet over fence top) and see the architect's misleading aerial picture (just south of fenced off Hilll) of the Hill and the Walls. The images don't show how close the 200 foot long and 30 feet high Walls are to the CRRNJ Terminal, or Hill and Walls effect on views.

Someone from Irvington who has loved park area since she was a child regularly, meeting her grandfather who worked for the railroad, wrote, " I feel that our opposition to the memorial isn't counter to the survivors of the September 11th tragedy. We are not saying that there cannot be a memorial, but that the structure being erected destroys a very important cornerstone of Liberty State Park which park users have been very instrumental in preserving, and that is the park's wide open, free spaces. The vantage point of the park demands that these spaces be preserved. One irony of the proposed memorial is that it widely blocks the very view of Ground Zero from that end of the park. "

Thanks very much! Please forward this email to others.
Sam

Sam Pesin
president of The Friends of Liberty State Park
The Friends of Liberty State Park
www.folsp.org
P.O. Box 3407
Jersey City, NJ 07302
pesinliberty@earthlink.net
cell 201-341-7895 (after 4:30 pm weekdays or anytime weekends)
home 201-792-1993
fax 201-792-3767