Another Philly fuckup

Lydia O'Neal has an article in The Philadelphia Inquirer about the United States:

After eighteen years of rusting away at Pier 82 in South Philadelphia, the iconic SS United States (photo) could be brought back to life, but in New York City, officials confirmed recently.
"Currently, the negotiations that are most promising would place the ship in New York City," Susan Gibbs, executive chair of the SS United States Conservancy and the granddaughter of the ship's designer, Philadelphia native William Francis Gibbs, said in an email. "We do expect that the ship will survive, but only if we continue to galvanize further support and build on the powerful momentum now underway."
Her note also said that a deal could be signed within months, but that the vessel would not be moving any time soon.
The Conservancy has been struggling to raise money to keep the ship from being scrapped, and has cited the thousand-foot vessel's maintenance costs of eighty thousand dollars a month.
To meet some of those costs, the Conservancy sold one of its six massive propellers to a recycling company, and was preparing to sell another propeller last month until a benefactor, Jim Pollin of the Pollin Group, gave the conservancy $220,000 to halt the sale.
During a news conference on the vessel on 17 June 2014, Dan McSweeney, managing director of the SS United States Redevelopment Project, vaguely described plans to tow the ship to New York City to be part of a waterfront redevelopment project.
"Our team in New York City is engaged in negotiations for the redevelopment of the site in Brooklyn and Manhattan," McSweeney said. "We are on the cusp of success on a very long and trying journey." He declined to give details, saying the conservancy would announce specifics by the end of July.
For its maiden voyage in 1952, the United States broke the world record for a passenger ship crossing the Atlantic in three days, ten hours, and forty minutes. The record still stands.
Prior to retiring in 1969, the United States carried, among other celebrities, Marilyn Monroe, Walter Cronkite, Duke Ellington, and Grace Kelly, as well as four US presidents.

Rico says we'll undoubtedly let it slip out of our fingers, and New Yawk will spend the money and make millions off of it, just like Long Beach, California did with theirs... (But will New York City demand the missing propeller, too?)