From the Daily News:Manhattan's new celeb-backed park in the sky is getting more security resources than other, more sprawling parks in other boroughs, parks advocates charge.
"It's outrageous," steamed Geoffrey Croft of the nonprofit NYC Park Advocates. "One park is being adequately secured with taxpayer money while the rest of the park system is abandoned."
Croft, and a leader from the union that represents patrol officers and rangers who do educational work, say the resources for the High Line underscore inequities in the park system.
The city has assigned 11 patrol officers and seven other eyes-and-ears workers to the 3-acre High Line. That's compared to 15 patrol officers, 17 rangers and 56 enforcement workers in all of the Bronx, which has thousands of acres of parkland.
Brooklyn has 23 patrol officers and 130 other safety and educational workers, the city says. Queens has 18 patrol officers and 121 other workers. Staten Island has 13 patrol officers and 57 other workers and Manhattan's total, including the High Line, is 43 patrol officers and 153 others.
Interesting considering that the Bronx is home to the largest park in the City.
11 comments:
Why - for this crap - because DeNiro and film and art crowds are there?
Get the F**K out !!!
When are the dog owners going to start unleashing their mutts onto the public at the High Line?
Of course it's located on the golden isle!
Weren't any security experts consulted first?
Somebody must have been high when the concept of turning the High Line into a park strip was hatched!
You now have a confined muggers' corridor giving a potential victim no place to escape if he's cut off suddenly from the front and the rear...which is exactly how these perps operate!
This also has the potential to become a terrorist's dream...a spot where great damage can be inflicted (are you listening Dept. of Homeland Security)?
Now Queensites have to wind up paying their unfair share of tax revenue for securing the Manhattan yuppies' little green space while our parks (or could-have-been-parks like St. Saviour's) languish!
Resources should be directed towards Forest Park in Queens and Van Cortland in the Bronx. These are large, wooded areas.
Furthermore, the Bronx may be the last place anyone can still afford to live. I am desperately looking to get out of Queens after nearly 50 years due to the high cost and hostility towards the working class.
And wait until the gays start copulating on the benches.
Why is it too much to expect people to act like human beings and not animals nowadays? The behavior that we accept as the norm would have put you in a nuthouse in the early 60's.
And wait until the gays start copulating on the benches.
That'll never happen. They're too limpwristed to shove the copulating straights out of the way.
The straights don't live there. It's the "meat-packing district".
Location, location, location.
(What's that moving behind the bushes over by the tracks there?)
The straights don't live there. It's the "meat-packing district".
Ah, yes... the kind of Kweens Krap Klass that passes for intelligent commentary.
The mutts are gonna love this place!
Elitist, where is it written that all missives must be "intelligent" commentary (as you define it)?
Long live sophomorisms. They too shall serve.
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