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In bad taste: 9/11 museum opening Danny Meyer restaurant

The 9/11 museum’s appetite for crass commercialism will be satisfied with an 80-seat restaurant inside the memorial’s allegedly solemn grounds.

The Pavilion Cafe, run by Danny Meyer’s Union Square Events, is scheduled to open this summer inside the National September 11 Memorial & Museum — a move overlooked when museum officials took media and VIPs through the grounds last week. More.

A Somber Visit to 9/11 Museum for New York Mayor Bill de Blasio

Standing inside the National September 11 Memorial Museum amid photos of thousands of victims, Mayor Bill de Blasio typed F-O-N-T-A-N-A on a screen, bringing up images of Dave Fontana, the Brooklyn firefighter he met months before terrorists toppled the Twin Towers.

9/11 Museum Opens to a Somber Crowd

Alone or in groups they emerged from the dark exhibition halls and the even darker subject matter of the National September 11 Memorial Museum, reaching for words like “overwhelming,” “shock” and “gut-wrenching.”

On Wednesday, nearly a week after it was opened to family members of victims and rescue workers, the museum opened to the general public. More.

And What if the Sept 11 Museum Had to Be Evacuated?

What if a bomb went off or a fire broke out in the National September 11 Memorial Museum, 70 feet below ground?

9/11 Memorial Museum opens to public, as special flag is unfurled

At 8:32 am Wednesday morning, on the first day that the National September 11 Memorial Museum opened to the public, 26 uniformed police officers and firefighters marched onto the lawn of the memorial and unfurled an American flag that had flown at 90 West Street, adjacent to Ground Zero, for weeks after the attacks.

9/11 museum designed to evoke memories without causing fresh pain

The National September 11 Memorial & Museum officially opens to the public Wednesday, but Charles G. Wolf saw the inside days ago.

Wolf lost his wife, Katherine, in the World Trade Center attack and he and other family members were among the first to visit the museum, which sits seven stories underground, below where the Twin Towers once stood. More.

9/11 Memorial Museum controversy

As its opening looms, Jason Carroll reports on public backlash over the idea of a gift shop at the 9/11 Memorial Museum. More.

Why do only 8% of the tasteless toys at the 9/11 Museum gift shop claim to be Made in America?

After reliving September 11, 2001 all over again at the newly-opened 9/11 Museum, visitors can purchase stuffed animals, glass ornaments, World Trade Center-printed ties and other tasteless souvenirs at the gift shop, located just a few feet away from the final resting place of 8,000 unidentified remains of victims from the tragedy.