BY KATHRYN FREED | The city’s destruction of more than half of East River Park in the name of resiliency — and its ongoing activity,…
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The cherry trees of Corlears Hook Park are gone, cruelly cut down by chainsaw for the city’s $1.45 billion East Side Coastal Resiliency plan. All…
BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Workers cut down the beautiful grove of cherry trees in Corlears Hook Park’s Cherry Hill on Monday. They had backed…
BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Park defenders stopped workers from fully cutting down any trees in Corlears Hook Park on Sunday morning as two protesters…
BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Although workers fenced off Cherry Hill in Corlears Hook Park on Monday, they didn’t immediately start cutting down trees. …
BY THE VILLAGE SUN | Don’t be like George! Don’t cut the cherry trees! That’s the sentiment of East River Park defenders who plan to…
BY DASHIELL ALLEN | At a January community board meeting Lower East Side and East Village residents were surprised to learn that trees in Corlears…
BY HOWARD BRANDSTEIN | Deconstruct the video of the “Frontline Communities Coalition” rally on Dec. 18 and what you see is an image makeover for…
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Two weekends ago, in a stunning sight, work crews toiling around the clock, feverishly cut down trees and ripped up pathways,…
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Opponents of the East River Park resiliency plan have been making lots of noise lately. Though, admittedly, it’s been hard to…