From the Queens Courier:
Howard Beach residents just want their park cleaned up.
Before plans Frank M. Charles Memorial Park are made, Community Board 10 wants the joint effort between the NYC Parks Department and Gateway National Recreation Area to get more local input.
Board members on Thursday, April 4 unanimously voted on a resolution to ask the coalition to remove Charles Park from consideration in the development of Jamaica Bay until further measures are taken.
“That park is in deplorable condition. It has been in deplorable condition for years,” Board chair Elizabeth Braton told a Parks representative. “When the City of New York entered in this agreement where the Parks Department would be allowed to go into Gateway and do some things, it was not the expectation of the local community that the first thing the Parks Department would do is engage in a revenue-making operation there.”
Parks and Gateway, which is an arm of the National Park Service, formed an agreement last summer to help drive more tourism to Jamaica Bay. Requests for Proposals (RFPs) were released last month for developers to create bike terminals, kayak launching areas or food concession stands.
6 comments:
Mamma mia, since the daper don died, it looks like Howard Beach has gone downhill.
Maybe some of Gotti's old soldieri will volunteer to clean it up, without unearthing some old bodies.
No time like the present to clean up Charles Apelian.
Throw him off of CB#7!
Is this one of the beaches where the savages come down to make "offerings" to their gods?
post sandy, jamaica bay is full of all sorts of stuff washed away in the hurricane in addition to the regular dumping...regular clean up of a park under such circumstances would make common sense to protect the public...
That park needs more than a clean up. It needs a full reconstruction.
Ask the Indian worshippers to put together a volunteer group to clean up once a week.
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