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Memorial Chief Expects 'Freely Accessed' Plaza by Next Year
By ALINE REYNOLDS
Jul. 12, 2013
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The fences will come down and the airport-like security screening will end next year, allowing free access to the World Trade Center site’s eight-acre 9/11 Memorial Plaza. Joe Daniels, president of the September 11 Memorial and Museum, speaks to Community Board 1 members.
That’s what Joe Daniels, president and CEO of the National September 11 Memorial and Museum, says he expects for the tourist-packed plaza, where visitors now funnel onto the site through a single entry point, by way of time-stamped tickets and multiple security checks. In a wide-ranging discussion with a Community Board 1 committee on Monday, July 8, Daniels said he is “confident” that there will be unfettered access to the memorial “as close to the opening of the museum as possible.” The museum is expected to open sometime next spring, but a date is yet to be set.
“There’s a bunch of activities that have to happen—all of them are on track right now,” he told the committee, “and certainly within the next couple of months we’ll be prepared to get more specific about the actual opening period.” The memorial’s objective, he said, is to allow people to freely visit the plaza and go through screening only when entering the museum. He estimated that about half of the people who go to the plaza will continue into the museum. (Last year, the museum saw more than 5 million visitors.)
A phased dismantling of the fencing that now borders the WTC site must be coordinated with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the site’s owner, and Silverstein Properties, which is developing three WTC buildings. “We’re in constant dialogue with the Port Authority, with Silverstein,” Daniels said, “about when that can happen.”
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