A conversation with the planners at a public event Why Not the Old Plan? What happened to the berms (the earlier, accepted plan for the park featured grassy embankments alongside the FDR Drive)? I asked Eric Ilijevich, Associate Project Manager at NYC Department of Design and Construction. Why couldn’t we stay with that plan? Parts…
Author: Pat
You think you’re Jane Jacobs, but you’re Robert Moses
Mayor deBlasio: You are not even the good Robert Moses who created East River Park and the Verranzano-Narrows Bridge. You’re the bad Robert Moses, who wanted to tear the guts out of Greenwich Village for a highway, who did tear the guts of vibrant neighborhoods in the Bronx for the Cross Bronx Expressway. Now you…