Toothless agreement satisfies City Council Committee The City Council Land Use Committee passed the flood control plan that will demolish East River Park. The plan goes before the full City Council Nov. 14. It is expected to pass, and bulldozing will begin next year. Before the vote Nov. 12 (10 Yes, 1 abstention), City…
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Report on the Report on Flood Control for East River Park
Brian McGrath’s letter to City Council Member Carlina Rivera: It is with great concern that I write in response to the independent report on the East Side Coastal Resiliency Project (ESCR). I lived in the East Village for twenty years, and continue to work nearby where I advocate for my former neighbors on community issues…
Stop the Death Sentence for East River Park: a Dozen Reasons Why
East River Park ACTION is asking New York City to find a way to preserve and keep open as much of our park as possible while providing temporary and long-term flood protection. Here is why we oppose the plan and our proposal for a better plan: 1) UGLY AND CRUEL: According to the phased construction…
Goals for East River Park
We deserve a better plan People have been asking, “Why don’t you like the city’s flood control plan, and what do you want?” Here’s a summary of my take. What do you think? East River Park ACTION opposes the city’s destructive flood control plan. It is an environmental injustice to inflict the dire mental and physical…
Hello Hello? NYC can you hear me?
Excerpts from testimony and statements by people living near East River Park, which is slated to be closed and demolished March 2020… unless city officials listen: I don’t understand how the city can even propose an Environmental Impact Statement for a plan that is unprecedented in its destruction: how can anyone predict impact, when there…
March and Rally for East River Park Saturday, Sept. 21
THE FLYERS ARE HERE! Print ’em, post ’em, pass ’em out, come protest to save our park!
There was a plan, and we want it back
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…
Imagine All the People–and the Flood Control Plan for East River Park
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…
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…
“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…
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