As the saying goes, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
Well, sometimes a Burger King is more than just a fast food restaurant.
A recent Gawker post included a photo gallery of businesses located near Ground Zero.
The writer notes:
The mainstream criticism of the Park51 project—located about two blocks from the World Trade Center site—has been that it's "too close" to Ground Zero. This might be a valid objection, if the entire area had been closed off and turned into a shrine, and only buildings that were properly reverent to the memory of 9/11 were allowed, and everyone who worked in Lower Manhattan was in constant mourning.But that's not the case. Blogger Daryl Lang, who works in the area, went out and took some photographs of buildings and locations that are the same distance from the World Trade Center site as the Park51 center will be. Among his findings? An Off Track Betting parlor, a Burger King, and a Vitamin Shoppe. (What better way to pay respect to the victims of 9/11 than to play the ponies and purchase some fish oil supplements?)
In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, that Burger King served as the temporary headquarters of the NYPD.
