It gave us flood protection and didn’t kill our park The Big U was part of a larger plan to protect Lower Manhattan, and our community helped develop it over four years. The city trashed it in late 2018. Now the city is going to trash our entire park and close it for years. Here…
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“Hey Dude, don’t be afraid,
Take a sad plan And make it better Remember To let us into our Park Then you can start To make it better” That was the anthem, sung to the tune of “Hey Jude” composed by Marie de Cenival for our demonstration before the City Planning Commission hearing July 31 about the fate of our…
A Green New Deal for the Lower East Side and East Village
How to Save East River Park, Provide Transportation Equity, Clean Our Air and Address the Climate Crisis. by Howard Brandstein This is the testimony to Community Board #3 Manhattan on ULURP (Universal Land Use Resiliency Plan) to facilitate the East Side Coastal Resiliency Project, June 25, 2019. VOTE NO 1. TIME TO ACT ON THE…
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…