From the Oct. 14, 2012, New York Post "Historic ship in a land war" by Kate Briquelet.
Janice and George Weinman, of Brooklyn, New York, have dreams of building the Greenport Monitor Museum, but for the last ten years, New York City has been threatening to take their land for the museum to be used as part of a park.
Their Monitor Museum has been a roadshow since 1996, mostly visiting schools.
In 2003, Motiva Company gave them a one acre site near Quay Street where the Monitor was built. Unfortunately for the Weinmans, their parcel is in part of where the city plans to build a 28 acre park stretching from North 9th Street to Quay Street.
The city has so far only acquired 2 of 6 privately-owned parcels of land. Worse, there is no schedule or budget to get those land units needed. The city has offered some unacceptable choices to the Weinmans as to there museum. One of the offers involves a room attached to a comfort station.
I'm Pulling for the Weinmans. --Old B-R'er
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