From FABnyc: May is Lower East Side History Month!!
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From CM Carlina Rivera on the East Side Coastal Resiliency Project Events:
| “Join Our Community to Learn More About The East Side Coastal Resiliency Project With the city moving ahead in the process to establish coastal protections for East Side communities under threat from climate change, Carlina is working with fellow Council Members Keith Powers and Margaret Chin, as well as city agencies, and local stakeholders to ensure that a number of community needs are addressed. The East Side Coastal Resiliency Project (ESCR) is the first major storm resiliency project in Manhattan since Hurricane Sandy – perhaps the largest of its kind ever in New York City. It will include the construction of a raised East River Park and additional barriers that would act to defend against storm surge and prevent Sandy-like devastation to public and private housing and small businesses along Manhattan’s East Side. ESCR spans three Council Districts and two Community Boards as it runs from Montgomery Street to East 25th Street. While the City planned to close all of East River Park for the project, Carlina is urging agencies to consider a phased-construction plan. She is also calling on the City to make significant investments in alternative open spaces in District 2 and provide for a bikeway detour during construction. To ensure the long-term environmental health of District 2, Carlina has requested that the City initiate a long-term study to re-envision FDR Drive, as well as initiate installation of new bioswales and the planting of 1000 new trees in the community. As conversations among our office, agencies, and stakeholders continue during the city’s public land use review process, otherwise known as ULURP, Carlina is encouraging all members of the public to stop by the two open houses on May 14 and 15 hosted at the Lower East Side Girls Club and the public hearings that Community Board 3 and 6 are hosting in the coming weeks. Check below to find more information about these events. *************** ESCR Open Houses May 14, 4 PM-8 PM and May 15, 2 PM-8 PM Lower East Side Girls Club, 402 E. 8th St. (at Avenue D) |
| *************** The Department of Design and Construction (DDC) is hosting open houses this week for the ESCR Project. City agencies and members of the design team will be available to talk to visitors one on one. They’ll explain design elements and answer questions about the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP) application and the project’s Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS). Translation in Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese, and Fujianese will be available. **************** Community Board 3 Meetings on ESCR Parks Committee Meeting: May 16, 6:30 PM BRC Senior Center, 30 Delancey St. (at Chrystie St.) This is a regularly-scheduled Parks Committee hearing where project updates will be provided by DDC. The public comment portion of this meeting will be limited due to other agenda items. Additional comment periods will be available at subsequent meetings. Public Hearing: June 11 Location: TBD Our office is working with Community Board 3 on an extra meeting date on June 11 to allow for greater public comment during the ESCR ULURP. This June 11 public hearing is being scheduled in addition to Community Board 3’s regular June Parks Committee and Full Board meetings later that month. Check CB3 Calendar of Events Here. Community Board 6 Meeting on ESCR Land Use and Waterfront Committee Committee: May 28, 6:30 PM NYU Dentistry, 433 First Ave (at E. 26th St.) The CB6 Land Use and Waterfront Committee will be holding its Public Hearing on land acquisitions and zoning changes pertaining to ESCR, immediately following regular committee business. |
For further reading: NYC Environmental Review
Monsanto and Round-Up
Monsanto. Yesterday, a jury ordered the company to pay more than $2 billion to a couple in California who claim their cancer was caused by the company’s popular weed killer Roundup. The couple used it on their property for decades, and eventually were both diagnosed with the same type of cancer. They’re both now in remission but testified about the lasting damage caused. Now, a jury is awarding them $1 billion each in punitive damages, plus another $55 million in compensatory damages. Monsanto’s parent company plans to appeal the verdict.
- Not even close to over: This is the third lawsuit related to Roundup that Monsanto has lost in California and the largest payout so far. There are thousands of similar cases that are pending at the federal or state level.
From NYers For Parks Tomorrow at 12 Noon!
| While the City Council has listened to our call for increased park funding, the Mayor hasn’t included any of our asks in his budget! We must keep up the pressure. We need you to join us tomorrow, May 14 at noon on the steps of City Hall. Because none of the Play Fair Coalition’s asks were included in the Mayor’s most recent draft of the budget, we are holding a rally to show loud and clear that we aren’t backing down and that it’s time to Play Fair for parks! It is more critical than ever for us to show the City that it must step up and increase the budget for Parks. We need you to join us at City Hall Tomorrow at noon. What: Play Fair Rally When: Tuesday, May 14, 12pm Where: The steps of City Hall Join us tomorrow make sure the City Council and Mayor know that it’s time to Play Fair our parks and green spaces!” |
New York Marble Cemetery
Via Michele Campo via New York Marble Cemetery :
“In between Bowery Street and Second Ave lies a patch of green dubbed, “A Little Garden in the Big City”, and indeed that is what lies at the end of a small alleyway off of Second Ave and East 2nd Street. Incorporated as a cemetery in 1831, the New York Marble Cemetery (not to be confused with the New York City Marble Cemetery nearby) is the oldest public non-sectarian burial ground in New York City. Although there are no formal headstones, the cemetery houses marble vaults underground built originally due to the outlawing of earth graves over fear of yellow fever outbreaks.”
Visiting schedule: here
“…It is a New York City landmark and a place of tranquility and historical significance.”
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