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…
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MAKE SOME FLYERS
At the bottom of thepage are links to pdfs of two flyers that you can download and print out. Hand them to everyone and tell them it’s urgent that we save our park from closure and destruction next year! Here are the texts of the flyers: There is a better plan for temporary and long-term…
A Beginner’s Guide to the NYC Environmental Impact Statement for the East River Park
Dr. Amy Berkov City College of New York, Dept. Biology To stop the total destruction of the East River Park in just a few months, we have to travel a long and winding road through the bureaucracy. Here’s what you need to know to fight City Hall: When a development project—like the flood control plan…