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Crews are still working on revamping so that the next bad storm won't leave the island shuttered for a year, he said. Nearby Liberty Island, which also flooded during Sandy, reopened on July 4th but was closed during the partial federal government shutdown. "I can think of no better way to celebrate Lady Liberty's 127th birthday than to welcome visitors back to the place where those
'huddled masses yearning to breathe free' first came to our shores," Luchsinger said, referring to a line in the Emma Lazarus poem "The New Colossus," which is engraved on a plaque hung inside the statue's pedestal. There's no cost estimate yet on how much it will take to repair and revamp the island.
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