In the News: 9/11 Museum to Open in Mid-May

March 24, 2014 Arts & Culture, Community News, Fitness / Spas / Salons, Real Estate

••• The 9/11 Museum “will open to victims’ families on May 15 and to the general public May 21.” If someone out there wants to go and report back about the experience, let me know. I don’t think it’s for me. UPDATE: Locals can get in that first week. —DNAinfo

••• “Crunch gym will not be leasing space at 140 Franklin Street, according to a March 19 settlement between the owner of the building’s lone commercial unit, Lily Realty, and the condominium board.” —Commercial Observer

••• “Tribeca Enterprises, the Manhattan-based independent film company co-founded by Robert De Niro, has agreed to sell a 50 percent stake to the Madison Square Garden Company in a deal that values Tribeca at $45 million.” —New York Times

••• “Shane McMahon, son of World Wrestling Entertainment CEO Vince McMahon, occasional professional wrestler and chairman of pay-per-view platform YOU on Demand, filed a complaint in state Supreme Court this week […]. The complaint, filed with his film producer wife Marissa McMahon, targets their building, the Cobblestone Lofts at 28 Laight Street; its managing agent, the Andrews Organization and several yet-to-be-identified design firms and construction organizations. It asks that damages be determined at trial, but pegs the claim at no less than $50 million plus interest. The case focuses on water leaks from various points of their penthouse, which they claim caused the growth of ‘certain toxic, airborne contaminants’ inside the unit, according to the complaint. The purported contamination gave the McMahons and their three young children severe respiratory ailments, they claim in the court documents.” —Luxury Listings NYC

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4 Comments

  1. j
    March 24, 2014 • 3:17 pm

    you have got to hand it to robert deniro and jane rosenthal. they use taxpayer lmdc grants to bankroll the tribeca film festival and then a dozen or so years later they cash out for a cool $45 million.

  2. betty
    March 25, 2014 • 9:28 am

    Congratulations to the founders (amid rubble and dust and depression) of the Tribeca Film Festival. You could give lessons in courage as well as business to your neighbors down south in Fidi.

  3. John
    March 27, 2014 • 11:41 am

    Re 9/11 Museum:

    It is disgusting that the Museum will have a $24 admission fee. The foundation that oversees the institution has been clearly remiss in its duties by not raising an endowment to ensure that the museum can be open free to all comers. Charging money to view artifacts from a disaster that took the lives of thousands of people puts the Museum in the same ghoulish category as the sidewalk vendors around the site who hawk 9/11 souvenirs.

  4. Anonymous
    March 27, 2014 • 2:25 pm

    There is absolutely NOTHING wrong with charging admission. The Museum receives NO funding from government sources and needs to pay its own way. This is a world class institution that will take its place among the world’s best and it has an incredibly important story to tell. People will still be able to get in free during certain hours. I’m incredibly proud of what they have done. No, I am not affiliated with the museum, but I have volunteered for them. I’ve seen the space and it is amazing. It would be great if they could afford to charge less, but until there are other sources of funding this is the reality. I’ve already purchased my museum membership.