By Geoffrey Croft NYC Park Advocates, June 25, 2017 The alienation of a public park to generate development rights is a circumvention of the Zoning Resolution’s regulations that preclude public parks from having development rights and would set a terrible precedent city-wide. Despite this, the New York State legislature this week voted overwhelmingly to give…
By Geoffrey Croft NYC Park Advocates, June 21, 2017 Upper Eastside and East Harlem residents are fuming over a $ 1 billion dollar proposed development being pushed by City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito on the border of the two neighborhoods. The plan would hand over Marx Brothers Playground to a developer to build a massive 760-foot tower with…
Courtesy of Leonie Haimson In an important victory for public school children, parents and community members have won their lawsuit to stop the city from leasing the sports fields on Randall’s Island during after school hours to a consortium of 20 private schools for the next 20 years. As Supreme Court Justice Shirley Kornreich concluded,…
