August 21, 2014 Consolidated Edison, which once owned the nuclear reactors at Indian Point, has finally unloaded a property that may have been the source of even more controversy. The utility company notified state regulators this week that it had sold the site of a proposed Islamic cultural center in Lower Manhattan that came to…
The former leader of a proposed Muslim community center and mosque near ground zero in Lower Manhattan has settled a lawsuit in which a donor accused him of spending charitable contributions on himself, both sides confirmed on Friday. The donor, Robert Leslie Deak, had accused the former leader, Feisal Abdul Rauf, of diverting millions of…
The furor over an Islamic center and mosque planned near ground zero flared up again on Tuesday, as lawyers for a former New York City firefighter asked a judge to overturn the city’s decision to withhold landmark protection for the building site. The decision last August by the Landmarks Preservation Commission removed a significant obstacle…
