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* Legal Fund (for accountability and transparency)

* LES Breathe (air monitoring and environment)

* Raising Hell (demand a better plan!)

* Emergency fund for wildlife (Goal: $700 for Squirrel Houses + installation)

*[To select the Fund for Wildlife, type “WILDLIFE” in the notes section after clicking the red DONATE NOW button on this page.]

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Why You Should Support East River Park ACTION

What happens in cities is often a crime. History tells us afterwards that big mistakes were made. Ah the original Penn Station, the old Metropolitan opera! Today we are fighting the city’s thoughtless plan to eradicate this gorgeous human park that has offered poor and working-class people their only access to expansive green space in Lower Manhattan and the East Village for more than 80 years.

East River Park is mixing place of young and old, Latinx, Black, Asian, Indigenous, White, LGBT and straight, rich, working class and poor; this park is a living symbol of what’s still great about New York and why we love this city. We of East River Action oppose the demolition of this park for an inadequate flood plan with all our hearts and souls.

We need these butterflies, birds and ballfields, we need these fishermen and laughing kids. We need a space to walk and run and dream. East River Park was built by Robert Moses in 1939 very much to sweeten his real purpose which was to build FDR that has run since then alongside the park, serving people heading uptown and down, entering and leaving the city. They drive by but this park is for us. We are fighting for flood control that preserves our park rather than destroys it.

Read more on this site about the history of this park and our struggle and then donate to stop this major New York tragedy, the murder of a public green space that is ours, yours!   

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Contribute to our nonprofit East River Park Action using PayPal or a credit card — Or write checks payable to “East River Park Action” then, in the memo write your preference if you have one: LES Breathe, Legal Fund, Raising Hell. Send to East River Park Action, c/o Jonathan Lefkowitz, 428 E. 10th St., New York, N.Y. 10009

East River Park Action is a 501(c)3 corporation, and donations are tax-deductible.

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We have three air quality monitors on the Lower East Side. See them at Air Quality page.

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* LES Breathe (air monitoring and environment)
* Legal Fund (for accountability and transparency)
* Raising Hell (demand a better plan!)

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Visit our ACTIONS NOW! page to find out what you can do to help the health and livability of our Lower East Side.

The Latest

  • Our Health and Environment July 1, 2023
  • Make Parkland and Public Transit June 7, 2023
  • Artificial turf, real damage February 11, 2023
  • What to Count and When to Breathe January 6, 2023
  • The Case for Quercus December 13, 2022
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This Lenapehoking Land

This wonderful park we are trying to preserve is forever Indigenous land of Lenapehoking. We hope to honor and respect the land of this park by advocating its use as a resilient flood-absorbing sponge working with the river-side ecosystem, rather than in defiance of it. We oppose the ESCR project that continues assault on the land and recognize it adds a layer of injury to the ongoing systemic oppression of the original stewards of this land, the Lenapeyok People.

NYS Constitutional Amendment for Environmental Rights: "Each person shall have a right to clean air and water, and a healthful environment.”

  • Home
    • Who We Are and Our Goals
  • News, History, Resources
    • East River Park News 2023
      • East River Park News 2022
      • East River Park News 2021
      • East River Park News 2020
      • East River Park News 2018-2019
    • History and Resources
      • Whaddya Want Anyway?
      • Cover the FDR
      • Value Engineering
      • Value Engineering, Redacted
      • Resolved: No Value No Plan
      • Not One Sandbag
        • Not One Sandbag Part 2
      • The Rivers Beneath the Streets
    • Resiliency News from Everywhere
      • East Side Coastal Resiliency Alternative Resources
  • Legal
    • Alienated, reasons we sued, 2019
      • Alienation Lawsuit denied 8/20
      • Alienation denied, reasons for appeal
      • Alienation Lawsuit Appeal documents
      • Court orders, defied
      • Lawsuit Filed for Unredacted Value Engineering Report
  • Videos/Photos
    • Endangered Environs
  • Breathe
    • LES Breathe
    • Sensors
    • Bad Air Days
    • Open Air Quality
    • Soil Foil
  • DONATE
  • Posts
  • ACTIONS NOW!
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