The Port Authority thinks it owns the NY skyline

[Liberal_in_LA]

The New York Port Authority has told a Manhattan retailer to stop selling dishes with the Twin Towers skyline -- and at the same time the same dishes are being sold in the 9/11 Museum gift shop.

Housewares store Fishs Eddy is fending off a cease-and-desist letter from the agency charging the company with "unfairly reaping a benefit from an association with the Port Authority and the (9/11) attacks," by selling its "212 New York Skyline" cups, dishes and plates.

But the company notes that the same china, with profiles of the Twin Towers, Empire State Building and Brooklyn Bridge, is sold at the 9/11 Museum, which is on property owned by the Port Authority. "Maybe the Port Authority didn't do its homework before they fired off that letter," Fishs Eddy co-owner Julie Gaines told the New York Post.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2014/08/11/new-york-port-authority-twin-towers-dishes/13886905/