Saturday, December 19, 2009

State Parks Turning Over Empire-Fulton Ferry Park To Brooklyn Bridge Development Corp - Lights Coming - Pier 1 Set To Open Next Month

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It’s taken so long to get off the ground that weary residents predicted it’d be a cold day in hell before they saw a Brooklyn Bridge Park. T...
Friday, December 18, 2009

Parks Department Backs Down On High Line Arrests - Lawsuit Targets Benepe for Previous Arrests

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On Saturday artists were allowed to sell their wares on the High Line without incident for the first time. The day before, the Parks Depar...
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Thursday, December 17, 2009

City Suffers As Albany And DC Defund Landmark Environmental Laws

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"NY State  has met just 17 of the 30 mandates set forth by the groundbreaking 1970 Clean Air Act" Polluter pays” policies consider...

NYCLU Sues City Over Retaliatory Arrest of Environmentalist and James Molinaro Critic

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NYCLU Sues New York City over Retaliatory Arrest of Critic of Staten Island Borough President December 16, 2009  —  The New York Civil Liber...
Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Mayor’s Schoolyards-to-Playgrounds Plan Cut -Two Dozen Eliminated

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24 Sites Cut From City Plan for 290 Parks From Borough Park in Brooklyn to Morris Heights in the Bronx, many New York City residents will st...

New Brooklyn Bridge Park Leadership, But State Still Mum About Attempted City Takeover

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BROOKLYN The state-city entity overseeing the development of the long-delayed Brooklyn Bridge Park project is getting new leadership, but it...

No Money to Staff Bronx Ice Rink, Even For a Month: Parks Department

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BRONX CITY OFFICIALS are on thin ice with Cary Goodman. The executive director of the 161st Street Business Improvement District wants to kn...