Thanks all who met and wrangled and made this a better design.
Sara D. Roosevelt Park Reconstruction CB3 Approval
Located between Grand Street and Delancey Street in the Borough of Manhattan.
Community Board 3 is grateful for the efforts of multiple public funding sources obtained for this project (including from DOT to improve street/pedestrian safety):
Former CM Margaret Chin* $15,000,000 ($15Million);
DOT – $15,100,000;
NYS Governor Hochul DRI funding (The Alliance’s application) – $3.285,000;
Former/current mayors $1,785,000;
Total 35,240,000 (according to Parks) to renovate Sara Roosevelt Park from Grand to Delancey;
Project Size: 3.2 acres
*Thank you former Council Member Margaret Chin for your interpretation skills ensuring the Hua Mei Bird Gardeners could communicate in their own language and that we could understand precisely what they wanted (and didn’t want) in retaining this historic legacy garden.
