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.’

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Astronomer Brendan Owens with a 6 inch refractor telescope at the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, England. Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

New York City’s first public observatory may no longer come to fruition thanks to an array of regulatory roadblocks to the project being erected by the city of New York. 

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