nearly 30 years ago. a church and busy street so close that the barbed wire is st. paul s chapel. been there since 1766, where washington went the day he was inaugurated, where the first responders came for relief nine years ago. you know what s also closer to ground zero than this muslim community center will be? the church of st. peter, at church and barkley streets. as the sign says, new york s oldest catholic parish. we ve got no more than a few inches of skin and a couple pieces of bone. ground zero is the burial place of my son, said joyce boland at the public hearing about this center. i don t want to go there and see an overwhelming mosque looking down at me. i honor her pain and her fear, but mrs. boland has nothing to worry about. unless she walks directly over to it, several blocks away, she ll never see the thing.