Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe OSSINING, N.Y., May 22 (UPI) -- The village of Ossining, N.Y., has applied for a grant to convert the infamous Sing Sing Prison into a historic museum. The project -- which gathered both supporters and detractors -- would cost about $14 million, The New York Times reported Tuesday. Advertisement Ossining Mayor William Hanauer said at a May 8 community meeting that a feasibility study, performed by a group of students from the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University, found that the museum "will be a strong tourist attraction with real economic benefits for the Village of Ossining, the Hudson Valley and New York State." "All that data we have indicates that this will be the most popular place in the metropolitan area," said the Westchester County executive, Andrew Spano. However, some residents at the meeting objected to the plan, saying the money could be better spent educating prisoners and something struck them as wrong about a prison museum. "Ossining residents should look at this as a morality issue," said Marie Gagliardi, 70, who has lived in Ossining for 50 years.
