TREES GROW IN CONCRETE JUNGLEBy ANGELA MONTEFINISE, NY Post
A barren downtown Manhattan traffic triangle will soon be transformed into a lush urban oasis.
DeLury Square, a cement-covered island at Fulton and Gold Streets, is going from gray to green in a $2.6 million renovation that will include trees, boulders, benches and a small waterfall.
Southbridge Towers, a co-op that owned the 8,700-square-foot patch, sold it to the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. last week for $5.5 million.
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Who is paying for this? Is this our tax dollars. I am a hard working man who owns an air conditioning company and I'm not sure I want my tax money going to save a few trees when there are a lot of hungry mouths in this city.
Bad time for this, especially when existing, historic parks that serve a hugh part of the city, such as Central Park, require private donations to be kept presentable.
The botanical gardens and the Bronx Zoo are also going begging. The aforementioned service schoolchildren, a constituency sorely overlooked lately.
The only way I could see this was if it was largely or completely financed by levies on the buildings surrounding it or if Financial companies had kicked in before the ongoing meltdown hit.
If the tenants of these buildings want their own private park, they can pay for it the way the people in Gramercy park do. We have enough of private wealth and public poverty.
"DeLury Square, a cement-covered island at Fulton and Gold Streets, is going from gray to green in a $2.6 million renovation that will include trees, boulders, benches and a small waterfall."
At first, I was wondering where would the trees, boulders and waters come from.
Then I remembered. All the living and natural elements will be removed from the Ridgewood Reservoir and transported to DeLuxury Square. The concrete will, in turn, be transported to the Reservoir to level those sunken lands so a soccer field can be built.
Meanwhile the much-larger traffic median at Hillside Avenue and Springfield Boulevard remains barren.
It was sold to the LMDC. I am not 100% sure but I do not think that the money going to this park, will be tax payer money, and if it is, it will be a small amount. I believe their money comes from other sources.
Sure they had money for this,just like the millions spent to rename the Triborough bridge.
The money going toward this is 100% tax money.
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