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New York City's 9/11 tribute museum has announced it is being forced to close down permanently. The museum, which opened in 2006, is located just blocks from where the Twin Towers stood. However, according to the New York Post, a massive drop in visitors thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic means it can no longer make ends meet.
"This cannot stand. The State handed $1B+ over to the billionaire owners of the Buffalo Bills — they have to stop this," Former Secretary to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo Melissa DeRosa tweeted.
The museum, which has had 5 million visitors from 141 countries since 2006, according to the museum's website, will be disassembled and have its precious artifacts sent elsewhere. Most will go to the New York State Museum in Albany.
The City of New York is looking to add a further 5,000 hotel rooms to temporarily house asylum seekers being bused up from the southern border, according to The New York Post. New York City has leased 11 hotels so far to provide temporary housing for homeless families after the population rose in the last few months, from 46,591 people last January to 52,379 as of Monday, according to DHS shelter census data analyzed by City Limits.