The Battle for Ground Zero, Part 218

When is a done deal not a done deal? When it relates to Ground Zero. The so-called final plan for the arrangement of names on the WTC memorial may not so final after all. Governor Spitzer may inject himself into that debate.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg has said several times that his decision on how to arrange names of the dead around the Sept. 11 memorial is final. But Gov. Eliot Spitzer on Tuesday said that there was still time to talk about it.

"Yes, I have opinions. No, this is not the moment to begin that very public discussion," Spitzer said when asked about the issue of naming the dead on the memorial, which has pitted the mayor against some Sept. 11 families that have launched a Web site to oppose his decision.

The mayor, who chairs the board of the nonprofit foundation building the memorial, announced in December that the nearly 3,000 victims of the 2001 attack and the 1993 World Trade Center bombing would be grouped by the tower or plane in which they died, and he said first responders' companies would be listed.

Gothamist has more on Spitzer and Corzine approving the construction of the Freedom Tower, despite looking for someone to buy out the Tower.

What goes unmentioned is how and why the Port Authority is now trying to sell the Tower off after spending months trying to dump Silverstein from the project. Silverstein is the only person to actually build a permanent structure at Ground Zero and was impeded repeatedly by the Port Authority and Pataki's office. Very curious.