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City Council hearing with Mark Levine (Chair of Parks) on proposed Park shadowing study

Check out the webcast of testimony on City Council’s effort to study the affects of high rise luxury towers. Many community organizations testified including Lynn Ellsworth of New Yorkers for a Human-Scale City.

Activists Take Aim at Shadowshttp://www.nypress.com/local-news/20150225/activists-take-aim-at-shadows

and a few years ago:

Central Park is now Central Dark

Petition to stop Mega Development

Petition from Human Scaled City

  • Post published:November 16, 2015
  • Post category:News

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