Statue of Liberty to reopen on July 4
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March 21, 2013, Thursday
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THE US National Park Service plans to reopen the Statue of Liberty to tourists on the US Independence Day on July 4 after a US$59 million job to repair damage caused by Hurricane Sandy.
Tourists once again will be allowed to ascend the internal staircase to the statue's crown, restoring a source of tourist dollars to New York.
The museum at nearby Ellis Island, where 12 million immigrants entered the United States from 1892 to 1954, will remain closed until further notice.
Some 3.7 million people visited the Statue of Liberty national park in 2011, generating US$174 million in economic activity, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar told reporters.
The crown had reopened to the public on July 4, 2009, after having been closed since the attacks of September 11, 2001. Then the statue on an island in New York Harbor was closed after Sandy slammed into the area on October 29.
While the statue itself was unharmed, surging seawater from the storm damaged docks, energy infrastructure and security screening systems, Salazar said.
Officials pledged to announce the park's security arrangements next week, indicating they had resolved differences with the New York Police Department on revamping the screening system. The police department had objected to the park service's initial plan to move the screening station from the dock in Manhattan to Ellis Island.
The Ellis Island museum's utility systems suffered extensive damage, and the National Park Service moved more than 1 million artifacts from the island to protect them.
Tourists once again will be allowed to ascend the internal staircase to the statue's crown, restoring a source of tourist dollars to New York.
The museum at nearby Ellis Island, where 12 million immigrants entered the United States from 1892 to 1954, will remain closed until further notice.
Some 3.7 million people visited the Statue of Liberty national park in 2011, generating US$174 million in economic activity, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar told reporters.
The crown had reopened to the public on July 4, 2009, after having been closed since the attacks of September 11, 2001. Then the statue on an island in New York Harbor was closed after Sandy slammed into the area on October 29.
While the statue itself was unharmed, surging seawater from the storm damaged docks, energy infrastructure and security screening systems, Salazar said.
Officials pledged to announce the park's security arrangements next week, indicating they had resolved differences with the New York Police Department on revamping the screening system. The police department had objected to the park service's initial plan to move the screening station from the dock in Manhattan to Ellis Island.
The Ellis Island museum's utility systems suffered extensive damage, and the National Park Service moved more than 1 million artifacts from the island to protect them.
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