Opening of New York’s First Public Observatory Mired in Red Tape Courtesy of City Hall
‘We’re putting a tin can a little bigger than a port-a-potty on a piece of grass that nobody uses,’ an advocate of the project says. ‘It shouldn’t take two-and-a-half years.’
Astronomer Brendan Owens with a 6 inch refractor telescope at the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, England. Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
