Liberty Island to Close for Work on Statue
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JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Liberty Island, home of the Statue of Liberty since 1886, will be closed to tourists for an entire year beginning June 24 because of the statue’s ongoing face lift, officials said today.
The remaining renovation work on the island will pose too much of a hazard to the public, monument, superintendent David Moffitt said. The island is to reopen on Lady Liberty’s centennial, July 4, 1986.
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