Wednesday, July 27, 2005

New York Daily News - City News - Can you spare a dime - or $500M?

New York Daily News - City News - Can you spare a dime - or $500M?: "Can you spare
a dime - or $500M?

Huge WTC fund drive

By DOUGLAS FEIDEN
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

A 6-ton carbonized mass of crushed concrete, pulverized steel and melted furniture that was found among rubble at Ground Zero is in JFK’s Hangar 17.
Artist's rendition World Trade Center memorial and surrounding complex, which the city is trying to build in part through a $500 million fund-raising campaign.
Gretchen Dykstra, president of the World Trade Center Memorial foundation, stands at spot on Liberty St. overlooking Ground Zero.
Reach for your wallets and tell your kids to crack open their piggy banks: The $500 million campaign to build a world-class memorial at Ground Zero has begun.

Students and stockbrokers, firefighters and financiers, baseball fans and business barons will all be asked to pony up in one of the greatest fund-raising challenges in New York City history.

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