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I will say, upfront, I have a connection to the Santora family. And yes, I think this is a bad idea. Insensitive, rude and inviting trouble for all parties concerned. NYers wage jihad vs. WTC mosque By Tom Topousis and Joe Mollica Angry relatives of 9/11 victims last night clashed with supporters of a planned mosque near Ground Zero at a raucous community-board hearing in Manhattan. After four hours of public debate, members of Community Board 1 finally voted 29-1 in support of the project. Nine members abstained, arguing that they wanted to table the issue and vote at a later date. The board has no official say over whether the estimated $100 million mosque and community center gets built. But the panel's support, or lack of it, is considered important in influencing public opinion. Holding up photos of loved ones killed in the Twin Towers and carrying signs such as, "Honor 3,000, 9/11 -- No mosque!" opponents of the proposed Cordoba House on Park Place called th...

YOU KNOW YOU'RE FROM NEW YORK CITY WHEN... 1.You say "the city" and expect everyone to know that this means Manhattan. 2.You have never been to the Statue of Liberty or the Empire State Building. 3.You can get into a four-hour argument about how to get from Columbus Circle to Battery Park at 3:30 on the Friday before a long weekend, but can't find Wisconsin on a map. 4.Hookers and the homeless are invisible. 5.The subway makes sense. 6.You believe that being able to swear at people in their own language makes you multi-lingual. 7.You've considered stabbing someone just for saying "The Big Apple". 8.The most frequently used part of your car is the horn. 9.You call an 8' x 10' plot of patchy grass a yard. 10.You consider Westchester "upstate". 11.You think Central Park is "nature." 12.You see nothing odd about the speed of an auctioneer's speaking. 13.You're paying $1,200 for a studio the size of a walk-in closet and you...