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JUNE 22, 2009

Ground Zero plans still stalled; Carnegie artists' studios may be razed in renovations

The by-now-familiar stalemate in the development of the World Trade Center site is reportedly due to the reluctance of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to provide the funding necessary to move ahead on the project. Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver have said that they're looking to the Port Authority to put up the bulk of the estimated $3 billion needed to green-light the new development. The organization's resistance has, in part, been due to concerns that overzealous plans for a new tower may lead to a shortage of tenants once the towers are complete.

The artists' studios at Carnegie Hall, once used by cultural icons like Isadora Duncan, George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Lee Strassberg, Childe Hassam, and Enrico Caruso, are caught in the middle of plans to renovate and modernize the building. The individuals behind the renovation plan to convert the spaces to classrooms and music education facilities and replace the skylit roof with a large roof garden–which Andrew Carnegie himself had envisioned, but was never built. The Landmarks Preservation Commission held a hearing in which those opposed to the studios' replacement expressed concern that important social history would be lost in the renovation.

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