49-51 Park Place

Building at 45-51 Park Place in 2010

49–51 Park Place is an address in the New York borough of Lower Manhattan at the intersection with West Broadway between the interrupted high-rise building 30 Park Place one hundred meters east and the grounds of Ground Zero one block west.

The multi-storey building, built in 1923, housed an exhibition room of the Burlington Coat Factory on the ground floor until the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 . During the attacks, the landing gear of one of the aircraft crashed through the roof and destroyed the top two floors. The building then stood empty for a while and (as of December 2009) is still half destroyed. In the meantime an Islamic prayer room has been set up.

The plan was to rebuild and rebuild an 11-storey meeting center with a mosque ( Ground Zero Mosque ), the beginning of which was promised for the tenth anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center . In mid-August 2010, President Barack Obama expressed his approval on several occasions for the decision of the responsible local New York authorities on building permits. However, the mosque's move due to overcrowding from nearby Tribeca was controversial among the American and New York populations. So far, New York Muslims share around one hundred mosques. Luxury apartments are to be built there by the end of 2017 ^[obsolete] .

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Muslims in New York City ( August 30, 2006 memento on the Internet Archive )

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↑ Oshrat Carmiel: Luxe Condos at 'Ground Zero Mosque' Site Aim High on Pricing. In: Bloomberg News. Bloomberg LP, September 25, 2015, accessed August 6, 2018 .

40.713741 -74.0102353Coordinates: 40 ° 42 ′ 49.5 " N , 74 ° 0 ′ 36.8" W.

[1] Oshrat Carmiel: Luxe Condos at 'Ground Zero Mosque' Site Aim High on Pricing. In: Bloomberg News. Bloomberg LP, September 25, 2015, accessed August 6, 2018 .