The Awl sends crack reporter Jordan Carr to Park Place in Lower Manhattan, to investigate the neighborhood where the new Islamic center is going in. He finds a defunct Burlington Coat Factory, an OTB full of sad old guys, and a bunch of people who don’t give a shit about Cordoba House, as, you know, pretty much any of us who live anywhere near there could have told you.
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