The Canada goose has been avian enemy No. 1 since taking the blame for the engine failure that forced US Airways Flight 1549 to splash down in the Hudson on Jan. 15, 2009.
But our erstwhile feathered friends may finally be getting a reprieve.
Recently the city has lowered the cull to only a few hundred birds a year and doesn’t plan to kill any this year. Officials are opting instead for less lethal population control tactics, such as destroying nests.
An Associated Press analysis of bird-killing programs at the New York City area's three major airports found that nearly 70,000 gulls, starling, geese and other birds have been slaughtered, mostly by shooting and trapping, since the 2009 accident, and it is not clear whether those killings have made the skies safer.
Federal data show that in the years after bird-killing programs LaGuardia and Newark airports ramped up in response to the gutsy landing, the number of recorded bird strikes involving those airports actually went up.
Combined, the two airports went from an average of 158 strikes per year in the five years before the accident to an average of 299 per year in the six years after it, though that could be due to more diligent reporting of such incidents.
Bird strikes affecting flights are on the rise in the Tri-State area.
As WCBS 880’s Sophia Hall reported, a new report suggests the problem keeps getting worse.
There were 175 bird strikes last year at LaGuardia Airport — the most since the FAA started tracking the incidents in 1990.
So the millions of dollars that taxpayers have spent to kill birds in NYC parks that the government deemed a threat to aircraft were actually thrown down the toilet? When is that waste of a program going to end as it has just been proven to be ineffective and unnecessary?
With all the excitement of the summer and everyone making plans for the 4th, it's unlikely that you will have noticed that some of the city's other residents, our park's native Canada geese, are disappearing.
The continued round-up and slaughter of New York City's geese continued yesterday with the removal and destruction of around 500 geese in Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, which was caught on video by local geese activists Goosewatch NYC.
The cull is part of a larger bird removal program carried out by the United States Department of Agriculture, which has been ongoing since 2009. Another round-up was carried out two weeks ago at Inwood Hill Park, where all but one of the resident geese were taken.
David Karopkin, the head of GooseWatch, said in a statement today that: "I am more committed than ever to fighting these roundups in NYC, and everywhere. It is disgusting and cruel, it doesn't accomplish anything, and it needs to end. "
Mr. Karopkin told us this morning that he was present at the collection of the geese and was threatened with arrest while attempting to document the proceedings.
USDA officials say that the clearing of the geese is necessary in order to prevent air traffic accidents, such as the infamous Hudson Miracle plane crash in 2009.
Mr. Karopkin and associates however allege that the removal of geese is cruel and unnecessary, and that the USDA are guilty of public deception.
The government is apparently trying to nearly halve the Canada goose population in 17 Atlantic states, to 650,000 from 1.1 million.
The geese are loaded onto a truck and taken away:
Now, while I know some of you will say this program is necessary in order to reduce the goose population, the fact is that the program has no effect on the population of the birds nor has it prevented bird strikes. The most common birds to get sucked into planes are starlings and gulls, not geese. This is the government trying to make like it look like they took action when they did nothing of the sort. The geese they rounded up are likely year-round residents that don't fly very high and aren't a threat to aircraft. I guess someone needed a contract. Again.
"In 1960, an Eastern Airlines flight out of Boston crashed because the engines had sucked up a bunch of starlings. There was a huge public outcry to get rid of starlings. Lately, we have been hearing that the geese are a major threat to jet planes. Senator Gillibrand wants to round all of them up & kill them... well, kill them just for being what they are - geese. Last night on Channel 7, there was a big story on how the gulls in Jamaica Bay are a danger to planes:
The story included a guy named Steve Garber who was a "former wildlife manager for JFK". In the story, he says that having breeding colonies of gulls in the Bay is "the dumbest thing in the world" and that the gulls should be "relocated". Relocated where??? He added that when planes fly, "They suck in everything, so when they go through a flock like this every bird nearby will get sucked right in" . The story added that, "The bird colony on these islands is thriving, proof of the Port Authority's and the Federal Government's complete failure to eliminate a threat that they know has existed for at least 40 years." By the way, the "islands" that they are referring to are the marsh islands, the very places that all of us have been trying to protect, preserve & reconstruct, because THEY PROVIDE BIRD HABITAT!
DUH!!! Isn't Jamaica Bay supposed to be a WILDLIFE REFUGE???? After they get rid of the gulls, what species will be the next culprit? After all, those jet engines "suck in everything". The cormorants maybe? They are awfully big birds and there seem to be a lot of them around. And talking about big birds, how about getting rid of the Egrets & Herons? We all know the golden rule of ecosystems: If one species is removed, another species will take over. So if the gulls & the geese are gone, there will be more resources available for whatever species moves in to occupy their niche. And that species may be even more problematic.
NPS is getting away with murder here! They are setting the stage for further industrial expansion into the Bay by permitting the construction of the gas pipeline metering station in the hanger at Floyd Bennet. There hasn't been a peep out of them about the calls for killing the geese. They are DOING NOTHING TO PROTECT GATEWAY AND THE BAY. Plus, there hasn't been a peep out of Congressman Turner, who by the way, supports hydrofracking.
Right now, as we speak, a USDA truck is driving round and round the new parks created (at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars) on top of the old Pennsylvania & Fountain Avenue landfills. The USDA has been doing this every moment of every day, from before dawn till after dusk, for several years now. Their sole purpose is to monitor the bird populations that are attracted to the new parks & determine whether or not they will be a threat to JFK. Mind you, one of the primary reasons that these parks were so carefully planned was ...to provide bird habitat!
The handwriting is climbing higher & higher up the wall here folks & we are asleep at the wheel. Getting rid of large numbers of birds will accomplish two things 1) It will make the Bay "safer" for jets and 2) Once all of those damn birds are gone and the Bay is now "safe" the REAL objective behind all of this can move forward: Expansion of the airport by filling in parts of Jamaica Bay."
- Ida Sanoff
"Well, well, well. After I mentioned the possibility of other bird species being slaughtered, I got the following blurb in an email:
=========== USDA APHIS Notice: OPPORTUNITY FOR PUBLIC REVIEW FINAL SUPPLEMENT TO THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT BIRD HAZARD REDUCTION PROGRAM: JOHN F. KENNEDY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. "Proposed off-airport hazard management activities include Mute Swan, Double-crested Cormorant, blackbird, crow, Rock Pigeon and European Starling management within a 5-mile radius of JFK. Actions to address risks from resident Canada Geese have been proposed for a seven-mile radius around JFK." Written comments can be sent to: State Director, USDA APHIS Wildlife Services, 1930 Route 9, Castleton, NY 12033-9653, Phone: (518) 477-4837, Fax: (518) 477-4899. The review period closes on June 13, 2012. The Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) can be viewed here. We're going to submit a comment and encourage everyone to do the same. ===========
So they plan to go after every pigeon, starling, swan, cormorant & who knows what else in a FIVE MILE RADIUS. What's next? Sparrows? Mourning doves? Jamaica Bay is on one of the greatest migratory flyways in the world.
I went online to Google Earth. They have this tool where you can measure distance. So I started in roughly the center of JFK & drew a five mile radius circle: New parks at Penn Fountain? In the killing zone. Almost all of Jamaica Bay, including the newly restored marsh islands? In the killing zone. Marsh areas east of Rockaway near Atlantic Beach? In the killing zone.
Then I went to the link & started to flip through the EIS. It starts out with some of the more palatable options: Mowing grass, falconry, etc. Then it really gets going: Removing trees & shrubs & destruction of freshwater wetlands. PlaNYC is putting trees all over the place to absorb storm water. But the Port Authority is permitted to do as it pleases. In the Bay, where there is a huge problem with storm water run off already, the airport is REMOVING trees & shrubbery & filling freshwater wetlands!
Bugs are on the death list too. After all, birds eat bugs. So they are using copious quantities of insecticides which will of course, wash into the Bay. And if we learned anything when NYC started aerial spraying for mosquitoes some years ago, it was that crabs are vulnerable to bug spray. And that includes Horseshoe Crabs. Oh and many fish are really sensitive to insecticides. Which means that an entire ecosystem can just collapse.
Then it starts getting into the real objective: Trapping birds & euthanasia. Oh and shooting 'em too. In addition to the aforementioned starlings, etc. cowbirds & oystercatchers are on the death list too.
Bunnies are also on the death list. After all, hawks like to catch rabbits. So do owls.
Again folks, Jamaica Bay is supposed to be a WILDLIFE SANCTUARY, not a death camp for birds & mammals. And what happens when these great minds figure out that birds can actually FLY from one area to another?"
It’s open season on Canada geese, if Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand has her way.
Today, the day after a plane in Westchester County had to make an emergency landing after two geese struck its windshield, Gillibrand introduced legislation that she vows will “cut the bureaucratic red tape” and allow “for the swift removal of Canada geese” around the city’s airports.
In the past, geese have been removed by being rounded up, stuffed into crates and gassed to death by agents with the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
For the past two years now, the USDA has culled geese within a seven-mile radius of John F. Kennedy and LaGuardia airports. Under a plan supported by Mayor Michael Bloomberg, USDA agents killed 1,509 wild geese in parks throughout New York City and 167 more in Long Island in 2010. Last year, 575 geese were killed.
But they’ve been unable to get into one area that is the main home of the birds: The Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, a 9,000-acre estuary and bird sanctuary that surrounds JFK’s runways.
The refuge is maintained by the National Park Service, and the federal government has been resistant to allowing USDA agents in there until it can complete an environmental impact study.
Gillibrand’s proposed legislation would not only allow agents into the preserve, but it would also require them to kill the birds during their June and July molting season.
“That’s when their new flight feathers are coming in and they can’t fly,” said Edita Birnkrant, the New York Director of Friends of Animals. “They get them when they’re flightless. They pen them and they can’t fly away.”
Adults and goslings alike killed
Geese are nesting right now, said Birnkrant, so it’s both adult geese and goslings that will be killed under Gillibrand's plan.
Birnkrant called Gillibrand’s suggestion to kill more birds “ a kneejerk reaction that won’t work.”
“We can’t get rid of every bird in the city and deciding to slaughter them is counterproductive,” she said. “Wildlife repopulates itself. Even if they do kill the geese, more will come back to these areas because it’s an attractive place to live.”
Birnkrant proposes using bird radar technology, which she said the Air Force uses. She said it detects flocks of birds, and pilots either delay take-off or maneuver around the birds. She also suggested modifying the birds’ natural habitat in Jamaica Bay Refuge, such as planting dense grass and shrubs and replacing the Kentucky bluegrass that grows there. That grass, she said, "is like candy to the geese."
Between 700 and 800 Canada geese are expected to be rounded up from parks in and around New York City and killed in the next several weeks, the city Department of Environmental Protection said Thursday afternoon.
The city will not say which parks, however, or when.
The department released the names of several parks where the 2010 goose roundup was so effective that it said there was no need to do another one this year. They include Prospect Park in Brooklyn, where 368 geese were rounded up last year and killed in the name of airline safety; Douglaston Park Golf Course in Queens (109 geese rounded up last year); East River State Park in Manhattan (67 geese); and Roberto Clemente State Park in the Bronx (55 geese).
But officials both of the city environmental protection department, which orders the kills in city parks, and the federal Department of Agriculture, which counts the geese and captures them, refused to say which parks would be the targets of roundups.
Goose census takers are finishing up the federal government’s official count of waterfowl in Brooklyn — but the would-be bird exterminators aren’t likely to fire up their gas chambers again this year because the population of local geese has already plummeted.
This week, only 23 geese were spotted in Prospect Park — where more than 300 Canada geese were slaughtered by the federal government in the name of aviation security last July.
The decreased population is a result of a multi-faceted and non-lethal approach to animal control after the outcry over last year’s massacre. Park biologists have covered eggs in corn oil to prevent their development, brought in dogs to chase geese away, and enforced a strict “no feeding” policy.
As a result, Park officials say that no goslings have been born this season, and many geese have moved on. BoroDeal
Of course, the goose population was greatly reduced by the slaughter itself.
Violent measures may not be needed this year because of the success of humane efforts to keep the goose population down. In the passed two months, biologists have combed nearly every inch of Prospect Park, tracking mated pairs of geese back to their nests, where the eggs have been coated with corn oil to suffocate the embryos before development. This prevents goslings from hatching in the weeks before the season in which officials can legally exterminate them.
Along with this “egg addling” technique, the Park has hiring a company called “Goose Busters,” which uses border collies to scare away the squawkers.
So what does this tell us?
1) The geese in our local parks don't go anywhere. They eat and reproduce in the parks. They aren't circling over JFK or flying to heights that would strike aircraft. 2) We are wasting a lot of money rounding up these geese for slaughter since migratory geese and other species of birds are mainly responsible for air strikes. 3) We can humanely control the population of geese.
Dogs of every breed come to Prospect Park and bother the geese, but only Cleo, a black and white Border collie, is paid to do it. Her job is to save the geese by tormenting them.
Last year, federal authorities killed nearly 370 Prospect Park geese, mainly to keep them from hitting airplanes. Now, with that slaughter fresh in the minds of many people in Brooklyn, park officials have brought in Cleo to help avoid a repeat.
Cleo will patrol the lakeshore to chase the geese from land and ride a kayak to chase them from water. She will vary her activity to shake the rhythm of the geese, and she will receive help from two collie colleagues, Spanky and Samantha.
If Cleo’s constant harassment succeeds in keeping most of the geese away, Prospect Park officials hope the federal agents in charge of the culling will pass them by.
“We would really like to keep the number down low enough so this is not a target area,” said Emily Lloyd, president of the Prospect Park Alliance, the nonprofit group that helps run the park.
Her organization hired Cleo’s owners, Goose Busters, a company based in Virginia that has worked extensively in the New York region, at $725 a week for about eight weeks, or until molting season begins.
Since Queens has no such group like Prospect Park Alliance, our geese will be gassed. But at least we're vibrant and diverse!
The 250 geese and goslings that were massacred in Prospect Park in July were only the tip of the goose-berg, new documents reveal.
Federal agents rounded up a total of 1,676 geese from 19 locations in the city and Nassau County — apparently making last summer’s operation the largest intentional waterfowl extermination in city history.
The birds were thrown into crates and hauled to JFK Airport, where they were gassed, bagged, and discarded, according to documents obtained through a Freedom of Information request. The goose-filled Dumpsters were then hauled to an incinerator in Garden City.
All 19 locations visited by Wildlife Services agents last summer remain a mystery, but documents from the Port Authority — the agency managing the city’s airports — do reveal a few of the sites in addition to Prospect Park:
• In Queens, agents slaughtered geese in Alley Pond Park, Little Neck Bay and Fort Totten.
• Animals on Rikers Island and Randall’s Island were also swept up in the culling.
Some saw the stunning scale of the goose massacre as evidence that the policy needed to change.
“It is certainly the largest waterfowl [massacre] we know of,” said Patrick Kwan, the New York State director of the Humane Society of the United States. “It’s an example of why we need transparency. For 1,600 geese to be killed without New Yorkers knowing what was going on or being able to consider alternatives … it’s not the most effective, efficient or humane method.”
But gassing is the method favored by the city — and it is possible that it will be expanded to include the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge next year.
The chief of resource management at the Gateway National Recreation area, Dave Avrin, said a study was underway to determine how to control the goose population in the area. Previously, Jamaica Bay, which is part of a National Park, was off-limits to Wildlife Services.
“We are going through an Environmental Impact Statement at this time,” said Avrin. “One of the alternatives is to cull them next year, another is not. We’ll determine which one at the end of the process.”
Five weeks after wildlife authorities rounded up Prospect Park’s geese and gassed them, provoking the ire of residents and wildlife advocates alike, legions of new, death-defying geese continue to move into the prime real estate that is Prospect Park Lake.
Anne-Katrin Titze and Ed Bahlman, Brooklyn residents who discovered the birds’ disappearance last month, counted 107 geese on Prospect Park Lake on Sunday. “They are clearly replacing the ones that were killed,” Ms. Titze said, although she lamented that some had already fallen prey to barbed lures and fishing line that were left in the lake.
The 107 geese have their flight feathers, Ms. Titze noted, and were slowly learning the ways of the park.
Federal Wildlife Services: How far outside the airport?
U.S. Department of Agriculture: A five-mile radius is sensible, not further than five miles.
Kim Wagner of Wildlife Services: Geese will be hardest to control in parks. [There is] an emotional issue. [We] need to know how to handle [it].
Department of Environmental Protection: According to the Federal Aviation Administration in previous … meetings, five miles is just a number. The liability issue can extend 30 miles [and] influence any large area.
USDA: No additional studies will occur. … [We] need to pick a distance.
DEP: [Can we] put to rest the five-mile limit? [We are] not satisfied.
Port Authority of NY and NJ: Five miles is a huge area to manage.
New documents revealed this week that city officials pushed for a “no-fly zone” for geese far wider than a five-mile radius from airports suggested by federal officials — even discussing the need for a 30-mile kill zone.
The minutes from the Nov. 15, 2006, meeting of the Bird Hazard Task Force — the team that would later approve the controversial, middle-of-the-night massacre of geese in Prospect Park this summer — reveal a vigorous debate among various city, state and federal agencies about just how far they would go to ensure that airplanes would not collide with geese.
“A five-mile radius is sensible, not further than five miles,” a representative from the U.S. Department of Agriculture said at the meeting, according to the minutes, which we obtained through a Freedom of Information Law request. The minutes typically only provide the name of the agency speaking during the conversation, not the speaker.
But then a representative of the city’s Department of Environmental Protection said that a five-mile radius is simply not adequate.
“Five miles is just a number,” the representative said. “The liability issue can extend 30 miles.”
Later, the speaker added, “[Can we] put to rest the five-mile limit? [We’re] not satisfied.”
The minutes reveal that even prior to the so-called Miracle on the Hudson splash landing on the Hudson River last year, the city wanted to kill far more geese than other government agencies sought.
Dogs made of bark that cannot bite have been popping up around Fort Totten to scare off gaggles of geese, but no city agency has yet to come forward to take credit for placing the pretend pooches at the historic fort.
Two wooden dogs sat on the fort’s soccer field, while another stood by its gazebo last weekend. But representatives from the city Parks and Fire departments said their agencies were not employing any methods to hound birds at the fort amid a U.S. Department of Agriculture operation to capture itinerant geese threatening flights at the city’s two airports.
A spokesman for Bayside’s 111th Precinct also said the Police Department was not involved in the matter.
Trish Bertuccio, a spokeswoman for the Parks Department, said the dogs “are there to scare the geese.”
But Vickie Carp, another Parks spokeswoman, said the mutts did not come from the city.
“There is no goose-scaring initiative,” Carp said. “I’ve heard anecdotally that there are some guys who play soccer there who put up some coyotes as a lark. But they don’t belong to Parks.”
She also said fake owls on the docks at Fort Totten Bay were likely in place to scare away pigeons.
Goose hunters are casting a wider net this summer for the pesky, plane-threatening flyers.
This year’s Canada goose cull will expand to a seven mile radius around Kennedy and LaGuardia airports, up from last year’s five-mile radius.
Over the next month, city and federal workers will remove geese from Fort Totten Park, Flushing Meadows Park, and other "targeted" areas, officials said.
Last year, the US Department of Agriculture removed more than 1,200 Canada geese from 17 sites, sending them to goose gas chambers.
City officials have also removed geese and prevented goose eggs from hatching at Rikers Island, and installed don’t-feed-the-birds signs in 40 parks.
Okay, once again, the birds that tend to take down airplanes are migratory geese. The ones we see in our parks don't migrate. They hardly ever even fly. They have no reason to. They are opportunistic and everything they want to do is happening on the ground. Therefore, goose killing is unnecessary and a waste of taxpayer money.
Just one incident of a plane hitting a goose in the skies around Kennedy, La Guardia and Newark airports was reported from May to November of last year, as the Port Authority and the feds stepped up efforts to clear out the pesky critters.
Three hits were recorded in the same periods in 2007 and '08, the FAA's wildlife-strike database shows.
After a flock of Canada geese forced Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger to ditch his US Airways jet in the Hudson River in January 2009, the Port Authority and the Department of Agriculture ramped up their anti-geese efforts.
Last summer, they rounded up 800 geese from the area around Kennedy and La Guardia and had them killed. So far this spring, they've oiled 55 goose eggs, to prevent them from hatching, in nine nests on Rikers Island, just north of La Guardia, where Sully's plane took off.
Agriculture and Port Authority officials say they're still working out the details of this summer's goose-fighting plan.
The Agriculture Department's Wildlife Services has been clearing goose nests from Rikers since 2002 and rounding up geese there since 2004.
There's evidence the goose population has declined over time -- in 2004, workers rounded up 500 geese at Rikers; in 2005 they grabbed less than 300.
Last year, they gathered 111.
"Every year, there have been fewer geese on the island to be removed," said spokeswoman Carol Bannerman.
There are less because you are removing the nests and oiling the eggs. BIRTH CONTROL and preventing them from taking up residence is what works! Not killing living geese so they can be replaced by others. (This goes for other species as well.)
There were 153 bird strikes at John F. Kennedy International, LaGuardia and Newark airports in the first seven months of 2009, compared to 139 strikes during the same time in 2008, according to data released last Thursday by the federal government. More bird strikes occurred at JFK than anywhere else in the country, with 30 strikes incurring serious damage to planes since 1990, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
Much public attention was focused on bird strikes following what became known as the Miracle on the Hudson Jan. 15, 2009, when Sullenberger safely landed the 155 passengers on US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson after hitting a flock of Canada geese upon takeoff from LaGuardia Airport.
City officials ramped up efforts to reduce the bird population around JFK and LaGuardia and a Port Authority spokeswoman said that over the past year the agency had hired a staff wildlife biologists to help them determine how to best combat the bird problem.
“We’re also having an independent assessment done of our wildlife hazard management plan,” the spokeswoman said.
Thousands of geese have been removed from area airports in the past year, including 1,250 geese at LaGuardia and 1,235 from other areas, the spokeswoman said.
The Port Authority has ramped up efforts to “discourage people, especially taxi drivers, from feeding the wildlife or leaving garbage around,” the spokeswoman said.
FAA officials said they have added new programs to better control bird populations around airports, including making the national wildlife strike database available to the public in April 2009. The FAA began collecting data in the 1990s for use by the federal government, academics and researchers, but only portions of it had been available to the public prior to last spring.
FAA officials said they are now developing a program to conduct wildlife hazard assessments at about 2,000 airports around the country, which they expect to launch later this year.
I was slowly crawling by Flushing Meadow (and later the New York Times building) and spotted an unusual sight: geese. It made me very happy to see them back but it also got me concerned as I am going to assume there must still be a plan to rid the area of geese.
Seeing "new" flocks does prove what folks in the know were saying all along - killing the present population will not stop others from coming in. So killing all those geese this summer, in effect, did nothing at all to protect planes & people, long term.
I have lived in this area all my life - as have my parents and grandparents. The geese were always there and we loved them. So this is an issue near and dear to me. If you get any more news about it please do continue to post it and thanks for letting folks like me know about what is going on in our neighborhood. Especially thanks for telling us when there is something we can do to make a difference.
Keep up the good work, anonymous"
I am looking at this as a metaphor for Queens. Bloomberg is trying his darnedest to kill the outer boroughs, acting as if we're pests. But much to his chagrin, we aren't going anywhere. Ha!
Northeast Queens activists said they were upset to find out Canada geese had recently been removed by a federal agency from Oakland Lake in Bayside and gassed following the crash landing of a U.S. Airways flight on the Hudson River earlier this year.
City Councilman Tony Avella (D-Bayside) said he wrote a letter this month to Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey to inquire why the birds had been removed from the lake, arguing the method was ineffective.
Susan Seinfeld, district manager for Community Board 11, said the board had not been notified about the geese being taken away.
Bayside environmental activists said they believed the birds could have been extracted without being gassed.
“It seems to me there could have been other options,” said Aline Euler, of the Alley Pond Environmental Center.
Daniel Egers, president of Friends of Oakland Lake, said he was upset the community was not notified before the USDA removed the birds.
“Oakland Lake is a natural treasure and it should be preserved in its natural state,” he said. “Gassing the wildlife there goes against that.”
You laud yourself on education issues,when the number one lesson we can teach our children is the conservation of our wildlife, not their destruction,as you have done to the geese population here in NYC. You broke our hearts here in Bayside, Queens and betrayed our trust. Our beloved Oakland Lake now lies silent, since our magnificent geese which our families enjoyed and loved, were swept up and gassed in a cruel and horrific manner with OUR tax dollars, when other humane options were available. All your money will not buy a single vote in this area. What you have done to Oakland Lake and to our community is unforgivable and will not be forgotten come November 2009.
Mayor Bloomberg, who has no consideration for other specie much less his own (unless the person is wealthy or a developer or the entity a corporation), just wants to bury his stealing of a third term so it looks like he's doing something.
Anything this man does is to benefit himself in some way. Schools are failing, buildings collapsing,World Trade Centers not built, whatever they are doing around swine flu isn't working, senior centers are closing and there are more and more homeless, and, under his watch, the economy, job market and Wall streets stumbled, he has to look proactive in "some way"- even if it's the entirely wrong way. Just as Bloomberg outzones us peasants he now kills geese for no reason. Bloomberg is a vile little man. His ego is killing this city.
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