East River Park Wednesday, April 226:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.Barbecue area by the Williamsburg BridgeRain/Bad weather date, Wednesday, April 29 FirstLet’s Eat and VisitBring some food or drink–or just yourselves. East River Park Action will provide paper plates, utensils, charcoal and lighter, refreshments and some hot dogs and condiments. Then, around 7:00 p.m.Gather to talk about the…
Lights Out Please Wasteful, annoying blaring lights stay on the jumbo ball field in East River Park on the Lower East Side every night until 11 p.m. even when no one is playing. Now it’s bird migration season. Many buildings turn down the lights that are so confusing and deadly for the 25 million birds…
The upcoming election for Mayor and City Council includes ballot proposals 2-4 that change City Land Use and Zoning—for the worse Then there’s the dicey Question 6. by Kathryn Freed If you read the wording to these proposals, they sound good. The measures claim changes are needed in order to make it easier and faster…
by Pat Arnow Twenty years ago, Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. The levees failed. Six years later Hurricane Sandy inundated New York. New York learned nothing from Katrina. The city is building 1950s-style levees, the kind that burst in New Orleans in 2006. These massive construction projects harm our health now and will harm us…
Three and a half years after the city demolished all of East River Park below Houston, a good-sized section reopened on Memorial Day. People streamed over the Delancey Street footbridge to play basketball and tennis in the new courts. By lunchtime, picnickers grilled corn and sausages on the stationary barbecues. More people lounged on the…
This community Icon has been a real friend to our work trying to save East River Park. He needs our help. –Pat Arnow, co-founder, East River Park Action As you may have heard, last week the Board of Directors at the Sixth Street Community Center fired its long-time director Howard Brandstein. The board had the…
The “Touch Grass” bill introduced by City Council Member Christopher Marte will improve our health and air quality by requiring NYC Parks to use real grass instead of hot, unhealthy plastic artificial turf. We need grassroots support to grow our grass 1) Contact your City Council Member, and urge them to co-sponsor and actively support the bill. Also ask them to support the increased…
The East Side Coastal Resiliency Project repeatedly affects nearby residents, even though one of the reasons the city gave for the complete destruction of East River Park was that it would lessen the disruptions. Yet, late night noise, dust, power outages, delays in toxic cleanup at Riis Houses and other problems plague the neighborhood. What…
Unhealthy and Unwise and HOT Click here to DO something about it. And see below for why we need to stop artificial turf: Stop installing artificial turf ball fields in New York. Here’s why: 1) Ouch Athletes suffer more foot and ankle injuries, and female athletes also experience more ACL tears on artificial turf fields….
According to New York City officials and some elected representatives, we need artificial turf fields more than we need to protect the climate of NYC and the earth. NO. We need more real grass playing fields and other open, natural spaces for the health and joy of more New Yorkers and for the future of…