“If this was caused by a natural process, we would call it a natural disaster. If it was caused by anyone other than ourselves, we would call it an act of war.” Here are excerpts from some of the compelling and knowledgable testimony submitted to the City Council committee that will vote on the East…
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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…
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…
“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…
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…
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…