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New York (AFP) – Days after New York marked the 22nd anniversary of the September 11 attacks, it opened a new arts center Wednesday in the last area of Ground Zero that had not yet been redeveloped. New York’s state governor, the city’s mayor and other local officials came together to open the Perelman Performing Arts Center, a project decades in the making intended to provide a space of healing and celebration of life at the site of the 2001 destruction. It’s the final piece of a project intended for the once-devastated area in Lower Manhattan where reflecting pools indicate an area of memori…