[norton]

I think Con Ed released a statement last week to the effect of they were fine with the mosque going ahead, even before the sale was completed.

In my experience a lease allows the holder to do anything it pleases with the property so long as it is returned in the original state (or accepted as better) at the end of the lease.

Abdul has leased the property for about sixty years so I am sure that the mayor, the islamists, muslim-in-chief, and Con Ed, consider it a moot point.

Since the property has been used as a clothing outlet for some time now the likelihood of the utilities commission changing things is simply for show.

[Candor7]

It does not change the fact that the public utilities commission has jurisdiction. And the public utilities commission had to review all of the repairs made to the Manhatten power grid after the Twin Towers were destroyed.

I am sure they will have their say. Ad I look forward to it.