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East River Park Tree Apocalypse

Posted on June 7, 2019June 23, 2019 by East River Park ACTION

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

Posted on May 30, 2019June 1, 2019 by Pat

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…

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.