Videos/Photos

East River Park Action is part of the Coalition to Protect Chinatown and the Lower East side. This is one of the projects. 9:33 minutes.
This is a longer film about the 24-hour-workday (30 minutes).

Biodiversity photo archive at iNaturalist: 

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=132141&subview=map

You can click on “filters” to select “Research Grade” (more reliable identifications), categories (birds, insects, plants, etc.), or add date or month restrictions.

There is also a bird list on e-Bird: https://ebird.org/hotspot/L872559
Some of these are linked to photos.

Yuh-Line Niou speaks out Dec. 11, 2021
The Fight for East River Park by Will Landis-Croft, Nov 12, 2021
An excellent overview of what’s planned for East River Park. 4 min.
NYPD officers arrest defenders of East River Park on the first day of the destruction of the park, by AsiEsNuevaYork, Nov. 2, 2021
from the Sixth Street Community Center

Good article about the video at The Village Sun, June 9, 2021

Well-reasoned AND heartfelt reasons from residents about East River Park’s future by Harriet Hirshorn. 3:09 minutes.
https://eastriverparkaction.org/donate/

East Side Coastal Resiliency: Something is fishy!

NYC’s East Side Coastal Resiliency Plan: How long will it last? Watch to the end to see brilliant but simple ideas for true resiliency.

by Amy Berkov (8:17 minutes)

Watch this Fabulous 3-minute video by famed LES DJ Ralphy CBS for our March to Save East River Park, April 18, 2021. Great protest!

NMASS (National Mobilization Against Sweat Shops press conference defending “Chinzilla” poster caricaturing City Council Member Margaret Chin that caused an uproar on social media when East River Park Action posted a picture of it. Features Actioneer Jasmin Sanchez. December 2020 (32 minutes)

Art Attack by Harriet Hirshorn, October 2020 (5 minutes)

Interview with Yvette Mercedes about East River Park, Noticias NY1. 2 1/2 minutes (in Spanish)

Don’t Destroy East River Park by Harriet Hirshorn, 3 minutes

Save East River Park by Kim Sillen, 16 seconds

SAVE ‘THE AMP’! HOME OF THE WILD STYLE (PSA) by KF Harris

Interviews by Harriet Hirshorn, 1/2 minute each, approximately

East River Park Speak Out, Harriet Hirshorn Video, 26 min (includes the excerpts above)

Testimonies, video by Harriet Hirshorn, 1/2 minute – 3 minutes each

Yvette Mercedes
Kendra Krueger
Sam Moskowitz
Pat Arnow

Here is the entire hearing via the City Council’s recording: https://councilnyc.viebit.com/player.php?hash=koXS67jpEui9

Natalie Dorsat testifies at the borough president’s hearing

Anne Boster testifies at Borough President Gale Brewer’s Hearing “representing myself and other elderly people.”

From Sept. 2019 Rally: Bury the Plan, Not the Park! Video by Harriet Hirshorn

East River Park Action march and rally

Antonio Queylin and Adam Zhu

Daisy Paez

This Bliss is Yours–Graffiti in the Park–by Harriet Hirshorn, 2 1/2 min.

The Fight to Save East River Park by The Indypendent, 4 min.

March to Save East River Park by NY1, 1 min.

More videos revealing our community’s voices—and how they were ignored

—of testimony by Lower East Side residents at the CB3 board meeting June 2019. All testified in whole or in part against the ESCR. See also one CB3 member playing Sodoku and another one texting as their neighbors testified with great passion. CB3 endorsed the plan. This is what listening to the community looks like. Not. https://patarnow.zenfolio.com/p161778316

Also videos of protests.