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Video: Coastal resiliency plan ignores the ‘elephant by the park,’ the F.D.R. Drive
In the video, Howard Brandstein says the cause of climate change — car pollution, as embodied by the F.D.R. Drive — is not addressed in the city's East Side Coastal Resiliency plan.

Video: Coastal resiliency plan ignores the ‘elephant by the park,’ the F.D.R. Drive

June 9, 2021

It’s car pollution, stupid. That’s a central message of the Sixth Street Community Center’s new “Save East River Park” video. In short, the video argues,…

Foes file legal appeal vs. East River Park resiliency project
Opponents who protested in East River Park on April 18 are fighting to keep the existing park from being buried under 775,000 cubic yards of landfill to raise it 8 feet, so that it would be above the floodplain. (Photo by The Village Sun)

Foes file legal appeal vs. East River Park resiliency project

May 1, 2021

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Opponents of the East Side Coastal Resiliency plan have filed an appeal in their lawsuit to block the embattled mega-project. The…

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