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…
Category: East Side Coastal Resiliency
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…
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…
EAST RIVER PARK SONG
(inspired by Michael Jackson’s Earth Song) What about sunriseWhat about gamesWhat about all the things that you said We were to gain? What about playing fieldsIs there a timeWhat about all the thingsThat you said were yours and mine Did you ever stop to noticeAll the dust we’ve had beforeDid you ever stop to noticeThis…
The Vote to Appeal East River Park’s death sentence
coming up Tuesday, June 25 at Community Board 3 Join The East River Park ACTION Group You spoke out on June 11 but your community board didn’t hear you. Tuesday, June 25th at the full Community Board 3 meeting they will vote on the weak mitigation resolution they have written. Tell them what you want! …
East River Park Tree Apocalypse
This is a small section of a map showing the proposed fate of every tree in East Side Coastal Resiliency area (Montgomery to 25th Street), adapted from the NYC’s Preferred Alternative — Tree Removals and Protection Plan (EIS Appendix C1m). The red Xs represent trees that will be killed when the entire park is demolished, starting…
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…