Bloomberg Caves to 9/11 Families

Published: August 10, 2007, 10:29 am

Tags: in other news, 9 11, memorials, mike bloomberg, world trade center

Photo: Getty Images So Mayor Bloomberg finally caved in the face of the collective fit thrown by some 9/11 victim relatives, who demanded the sixth-anniversary ceremonies be held in the pit at ground zero and only there. The Port Authority will now contort to allow the mourners to, as the mayor said in a statement, "descend the ramp in a single-file stream that keeps moving into a limited area … and then to ascend back to street level." We can understand why Bloomie gave up — nobody wants to be the villain, and how bad would pissing off 9/11 widows look in, say, some sort of national campaign? But the entire dance preceding the agreement was one of the most mutually degrading give-and-takes in recent memory. And the compromise is near-farcical: Go down the stairs, "pay respects," don't touch anything, watch out for the crane, come back up. The families' masochistic eagerness to subject themselves to this treatment over a matter of (let's be frank) pure protocol scares us

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