Manhattan, NY – Anne Frank Museum to be GZ Mosque Neighbor

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    Manhattan, NY – A museum commemorating the world’s most famous Holocaust victim is planning to move across the street from the proposed Ground Zero mosque, The Post has learned.

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    The nonprofit Anne Frank Center USA, a partner of the Anne Frank Museum in Amsterdam, offers educational programs about the Holocaust and the history of World War II. The group is poised to sign a lease in the 20-floor, glass-and-steel tower at 100 Church St., sources involved in the negotiations confirmed.

    The windows of the 1 million- square-foot office tower overlook Park 51, the planned 16-story, 125,000-square-foot Muslim community center and mosque at 45 Park Place, two blocks from Ground Zero.

    Board members at the Anne Frank Center said they harbored no concerns about their odd juxtaposition with the mosque, whose proximity to the 9/11 site has sparked outrage.

    The Anne Frank Center is in negotiations with SL Green Realty Corp. to rent 2,500 square feet of ground-floor space, according to Steven Durels, SL Green’s director of leasing for the building. Asking rent is $50 a square foot, which would be $125,000 a month for the exhibition center.

    “We’re in advanced negotiations with them and, hopefully, we’ll sign a deal in the next few weeks,” Durels said. “We think the Anne Frank Center is a good use for the building.”

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    hashomer
    hashomer
    13 years ago

    Before everyone jumps for joy about the Anna Frank Center creating (yet another) holocaust museum near the NY “ground zero” site, please note that the center, while being the owner and museum site interpreter of the Anna Frank House in Amsterdam, it also has other agendas. Over the years, it has evolved away from re-telling the Frank family tragedy and has become a “museum of oppressed peoples”, telling the story of apartheid era black South Africans, Bosnians, Darfur Sudanese, Rwanda’s Tutus, etc, etc. So it’s lost much of its Jewish content in the name of general humanitarianism, which is a good thing: but it loses the unique and crucial nature of being a Shoah memorial and a sacred Jewish site. No doubt it will soon show the oppression in the “West Bank & Gaza” if the likes of once-Jewish filmaker schnable have their way.

    charliehall
    charliehall
    13 years ago

    “telling the story of apartheid era black South Africans, Bosnians, Darfur Sudanese, Rwanda’s Tutus”

    And the problem with telling the story of other persecuted peoples is….?

    13 years ago

    maybe the moslems going to the mosque will stop in to learn about the holocaust. and maybe jews can see moslems at the mosque not acting crazy or being terrorists. hopefully the mosque will offer an educational component open to non-moslem public

    hashomer
    hashomer
    13 years ago

    As I said, showing general humanitarian concerns is a good thing, but evolving the Anna Frank legacy away from the Jewish nature of the saga is not. Anti-Jewish causes have sometimes appropriated the Shoah as a “universal” event, and turned it into a form of anti-Jewish rhetoric at the same time they deny the Shoah occurred. As the primary victims of the Holocaust, we have every right to protect the sacred memory of our relatives and our nearly destroyed culture. Our own is our own, Charlie. What part of that don’t you get?

    13 years ago

    It says “$50 a foot “and then $125,000 a year. Typically square feet prices are quoted by year. That would mean that it is either $12,500 a month or it is $500 a foot (I am not familiar with ny but that seems high