Elected officials and local leaders held a rally in Long Island City Friday calling on the city and state to repair a badly damaged section of the Newtown Creek.
The rally took place in front of the Dutch Kills Tributary near 29th Street, where large chunks of a retaining wall surrounding the creek have collapsed, causing concrete and debris to spill into the waterway.
The demonstrators say that the damaged bulkhead has polluted the waterway with dumped tires, concrete blocks, and other historic fill. The collapse, campaigners say, has also created dangerous instability in the adjacent roadway – located just three feet away from the unstable shoreline.
They demanded the three governmental agencies — the state Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC), the city Department of Transportation (DOT) and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) which owns the adjacent land — immediately address the deteriorating containment walls.
The campaigners presented renderings of redesign proposals showing how the agencies could create a new shoreline around the Dutch Kills Tributary that adds a public access point to the waterfront. It also incorporates native species and habitat restoration.
Queens Borough President Donovan Richards, Councilmember Julie Won, members of the volunteer group the Newtown Creek Alliance and LaGuardia Community College President Kenneth Adams attended the rally. Juan Ardila, who won the Democratic primary for the Assembly District 37 seat in June, also participated in the event along with a number of environmental activists.
“This shoreline is in need of investment if it’s going to reach its full potential,” Richards said.
“It needs to be restored… to be made accessible for everyone to enjoy, helping families in our community thrive for generations to come. We are calling on our agencies to get their act together, now is not a time for bureaucracy, now is the time for the cure.”
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Yeah, it's a mess. But if they fix it, who's going to go there anyway in that crappy part of LIC? Like four people a day will go there to smoke weed. So let's spend billions on it.
Dave Smith said...
This is part of the cult of climate change, and how the establishment media is pushing climate change as a new mechanism to exert control on the population.
Climate Religion - Part of the Problem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxGHu4GxHiE&ab_channel=DaveSmith
Fire them and replace them with nothing. NOTHING.
Ah yes, Julie Whan. When we told her that 4 pharmacies are closing in our community, as well as a supermarket she nonchalantly told us there is nothing you can do as its all real estate.
The kicker is to go thorugh a list of organizations she supports - dozens and dozens. Most no one we know ever heard of. All woke. Just like her community.
Not.
Lady with the pink armpit hair looks hot.
Absolutely pitiful! They act more like middle schoolers than adults.
Mitch Waxman (far right photo): you gotta lose some weight.
Where's David Weprin?? Isn't this area within 20 Nautical miles of his district?
Ardila was there? I swear I'll never forgive Walter Sanchez for endorsing that fool. I understand Sanchez is trying to appeal to a younger hipper demographic, but jesus the guy doesn't know where he is half the time...
I see the right wing think tank has spoken in the form of NPC doofus.
The Sheeple will now know which position to take on this matter.
New York is a cauldron of self-absorption that only adds to a pandemic of never-ending bureaucracy——exclusively created, fostered and reinforced by the same intensely incompetent, DemonRat-entrenched, establishment-rigged parasites who continually feed off of the human misery that they are instrumental in foisting onto the slaves and peons of New York City and New York State, with impunity. Even cockroaches have purpose in life——these bloodsucking scourges are evil, predatory and rapacious organisms who thrive and prosper from all humanmisery that they themselves SO ORDER, without ever paying a price for being wrong (and they are always wrong about everything)!
I’m a life long democrat and I now admit the party is heading in the wrong direction. Voting Republican in November and in 2024. Who’s with me?
New York is a cauldron of self-absorption that only adds to a pandemic of never-ending bureaucracy——exclusively created, fostered and reinforced by the same intensely incompetent, DemonRat-entrenched, establishment-rigged parasites who continually feed off of the human misery that they are instrumental in foisting onto the slaves and peons of New York City and New York State, with impunity. Even cockroaches have purpose in life——these bloodsucking scourges are evil, predatory and rapacious organisms who thrive and prosper from all humanmisery that they themselves SO ORDER, without ever paying a price for being wrong (and they are always wrong about everything)!
Well, Sheeple you are part of the problem that plagues NYC. You and the rest of the do-nothing politicians who are more concerned with your getting media attention.
Are you aware that most NYC waterways except for tiny ones like Newtown Creek have been cleaned already? https://www1.nyc.gov/site/dep/water/combined-sewer-overflows.page Unfortunately engineering is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration and the sweaty hard work too unglamorous for hyesterical journalists to report.
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