From the Queens Chronicle:
In 2008, the state Department of Environmental Conservation settled with the city for $10 million after the city failed to meet its deadlines in upgrading the Newtown Creek wastewater treatment plant. In December, New Yorkers will have a say in what is done with the money.
Twenty-two projects have been proposed and the City Parks Foundation will be holding voting sessions on Dec. 1, from 3 to 8 p.m. at the Queens Library’s Court Square branch, located at 25-01 Jackson Ave. and on Dec. 2, from 3 to 8 p.m. at PS 34 in Brooklyn, at 131 Norman Ave. Anyone can vote, but according to Newtown Historical Society President Christina Wilkinson, the votes from Queens and Brooklyn residents will weigh more.
Proposed projects range from the construction of a bike-racing track at an as-yet undecided location, to the creation of a park at the former St. Savior’s Church and parsonage site at 57-40 58 St. in Maspeth.
Two other proposals — the purchase of materials for the Queens Library and Cultural Center planned for Hunter’s Point, and the creation of a community facility and park with an athletic field along the waterfront on 47th Avenue in Dutch Kills, are the only other Queens-specific suggestions.
Queens will only see some of this money if you folks get out there and vote. So you are urged to do that.
6 comments:
Wednesday 3-8? Can I get an absentee ballot?
So far as I know you may only vote in person.
Infrastructure is deteriorating rapidly and all I read about is $$ for bike lanes and dog runs!
That's because this money is for park projects. It's the result of an environmental settlement.
"That's because this money is for park projects."
Park? I thought I heard "pork" and got all excited over nuthin'!
More bike shit from the clueless yuppie bastards in this city. People are losing their jobs, their homes. Crime is way up, our firefighters and policemen are being cut back. Taxi's do not follow laws and people are getting hit left and right crossing the streets. No one is enforcing laws, but our CEO's and multi national corporations here get away with overseas tax shelters, subway fares are going up to pay for incompetent MTA management, illegal aliens are bleeding our health care and welfare systems dry and Bloomberg is STILL in office.
TIME TO GET THE FUCK OUT OF THIS HELL HOLE OF A CITY.
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