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A great action to protect wetlands by NY Attorney General....please pass along to interested parties!
NEWS RELEASE FROM ATTORNEY GENERAL ELIOT SPITZER
For Immediate Release: November 15, 2004
For Information: Marc Violette, 518 473 5525
STATE MOVES TO PROTECT CENTRAL NEW YORK WETLAND
Lysander Project to Test Federal Wetlands Protection Rules
Attorney General Eliot Spitzer today announced legal action to protect
a sensitive 19-acre wetland in Onondaga County.
The move by Spitzer's office is a direct challenge to the Bush
administrations interpretation of federal wetlands protection rules. The
move is also an effort to address flooding problems in Central New
York.
"New York's wetlands are being lost at an alarming rate," Attorney
General Spitzer said. "And federal authorities are not doing enough to
halt the damage. The Administration has interpreted the law in ways that
violate Congress's intent to protect waters and wetlands. This
approach undermines the protection of critical natural areas."
At issue is a recent decision of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,
which has claimed that it does not have legal authority to protect this
wetland in the Town of Lysander in northern Onondaga County. The Corps
says that the specific wetland in question -- which is slated for
development -- is not a protected wetland because it is not connected
directly to another water body.
Spitzer's office contends that the Lysander wetland drains directly
into the Seneca River, approximately one-half mile away and is a
protected wetland, according to federal law. Spitzer's office noted
that construction of new housing tracts have already affected Lysander
wetlands and that further development may exacerbate regional flooding
problems as displaced water flows to downstream areas.
Spitzer said that while new development is welcome, the state must
carefully monitor wetlands development because of worsening flooding
problems, especially in Central New York. Projects with the clear
potential to create an ecological imbalance should be modified, he
said.
James Murphy, Wetlands and Water Resources Counsel of the National
Wildlife Federation said: "The Army Corps of Engineers has taken a minor
loophole and created a gap big enough to drive a bulldozer through and
it's clear that its district offices are not going to close it.
We're encouraged that the New York Attorney General's Office is
pursuing this important case to ensure that new York's wetlands
receive the protection required by law."
The Attorney General's office has filed a Notice of Intent to sue the
Army Corps of Engineers and the Environmental Protection Agency. The law
requires that the agencies have 60 days to respond before a lawsuit is
filed.
In August of 2003, a local builder, Greenfield Homes, LLC, requested
that the Army Corps of Engineers determine that the wetland in Lysander
is not protected by the Clean Water Act because it is not next to
another body of water such as a river or a stream. The Army Corps'
Buffalo District office agreed with the developer, ruled that the
wetland is not protected under the Clean Water Act and allowed the
project to move forward. The Attorney General's Office, which became
involved in the case after receiving complaints from local residents, is
seeking to have the decision reversed.
Wetlands are important natural resources because they help prevent
flooding, improve water supplies, provide wildlife habitat, ensure
biodiversity and provide recreational and aesthetic enjoyment for many
New Yorkers.
The case is being handled by Assistant Attorneys General Lemuel
Srolovic and Lisa Feiner, with Environmental Scientist Charles Silver.
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Judith Enck, Policy Advisor
NYS Attorney General's Office
Environmental Protection Bureau
State Capitol
Albany, NY 12224-0341
Phone: 518 473 9037
Fax: 518 473 2534
E mail: Judith.Enck@oag.state.ny.us
Monday, November 15, 2004
Friday, November 12, 2004
135th Street Transfer Station Stays Shut
135th Street Transfer Station Stays Shut
WE ACT, Inc. 271 West 125th Street, Suite 308, New York, New York 10027-4424 Contact Us
Press Release
Date: Friday, November 12, 2004
Contact: Christopher Greaves, Communications Director, (212) 961-1000, ext. 304 or Chris@weact.org
135th Street Transfer Station Stays Shut, As Mayor Reopens Gansevoort Station
With Harlem communities suffering under a cloud of air pollution from diesel combustion and grappling with an asthma crisis so acute it earned mention in the Democratic nominee�s July acceptance speech, Mayor Bloomberg's plan to reopen the 135th Street Marine Transfer Station (MTS) sparked strident protestations here in Harlem. In a community already beleaguered by a disproportionate share of environmental hazards, the mayor's announced decision to pursue a different course is welcome news.
"We are appreciative that the city has heard our voices," says WE ACT Executive Director Peggy Shepard. "We understand that we are a disproportionately affected community," says Shepard. "This demonstrates what an organized community can achieve."
The operation of facilities like the trash station �which would have relied on the combustion of diesel fuel to power its trucks� contributes to air pollution and threatens public health. With six diesel-bus depots; two of the city's largest sewage treatment plants; several sanitation diesel vehicle garages; and two outdoor New York City Transit Authority train yards, upper Manhattan already plays host to a hefty share of less than wholesome sites. The pollution from such facilities, primarily the combustion of diesel fuel, is a major trigger for asthma and other respiratory illnesses.
"When the trash station was fully operational, it was the only such facility in Manhattan operating 24-hours a day and drew 93 garbage trucks, one truck every 15.5 minutes, up and down Harlem's narrow brownstone streets," says Yolande Cadore, WE ACT's organizing director and chief coordinator of the 40-member Northern Manhattan Environmental Justice Coalition (NMEJC). The battle to forestall the "un-grand" reopening was led by NMEJC, a group initiated by WE ACT for Environmental Justice.
"When the MTS was here, it was very, very hard to do business," said Eddy Borrero, a coalition member who owns and operates Riverside Beer & Soda on 12th Avenue and 133rd Street. "The mayor's decision means I can continue to receive deliveries without city trucks blocking the way and that my customers will be able to park their cars and come in and purchase things," he said.
Though many are thrilled by the mayor�s decision to shift gears, the NMEJC-WE ACT battle to safeguard Northern Manhattan is far from over.
"We will redouble our efforts to protect our communities from other city-run facilities that operate without community oversight or accountability and endanger our health," says WE ACT's Peggy Shepard. Coalition members like Jordi Reyes-Montblanc, chairman of Community Board 9, expressed relief with a cautionary tone. "I'm pleased with the mayor's announcement," he said. "But I'm not completely satisfied this issue has gone away."
WE ACT, Inc. 271 West 125th Street, Suite 308, New York, New York 10027-4424 Contact Us
Press Release
Date: Friday, November 12, 2004
Contact: Christopher Greaves, Communications Director, (212) 961-1000, ext. 304 or Chris@weact.org
135th Street Transfer Station Stays Shut, As Mayor Reopens Gansevoort Station
With Harlem communities suffering under a cloud of air pollution from diesel combustion and grappling with an asthma crisis so acute it earned mention in the Democratic nominee�s July acceptance speech, Mayor Bloomberg's plan to reopen the 135th Street Marine Transfer Station (MTS) sparked strident protestations here in Harlem. In a community already beleaguered by a disproportionate share of environmental hazards, the mayor's announced decision to pursue a different course is welcome news.
"We are appreciative that the city has heard our voices," says WE ACT Executive Director Peggy Shepard. "We understand that we are a disproportionately affected community," says Shepard. "This demonstrates what an organized community can achieve."
The operation of facilities like the trash station �which would have relied on the combustion of diesel fuel to power its trucks� contributes to air pollution and threatens public health. With six diesel-bus depots; two of the city's largest sewage treatment plants; several sanitation diesel vehicle garages; and two outdoor New York City Transit Authority train yards, upper Manhattan already plays host to a hefty share of less than wholesome sites. The pollution from such facilities, primarily the combustion of diesel fuel, is a major trigger for asthma and other respiratory illnesses.
"When the trash station was fully operational, it was the only such facility in Manhattan operating 24-hours a day and drew 93 garbage trucks, one truck every 15.5 minutes, up and down Harlem's narrow brownstone streets," says Yolande Cadore, WE ACT's organizing director and chief coordinator of the 40-member Northern Manhattan Environmental Justice Coalition (NMEJC). The battle to forestall the "un-grand" reopening was led by NMEJC, a group initiated by WE ACT for Environmental Justice.
"When the MTS was here, it was very, very hard to do business," said Eddy Borrero, a coalition member who owns and operates Riverside Beer & Soda on 12th Avenue and 133rd Street. "The mayor's decision means I can continue to receive deliveries without city trucks blocking the way and that my customers will be able to park their cars and come in and purchase things," he said.
Though many are thrilled by the mayor�s decision to shift gears, the NMEJC-WE ACT battle to safeguard Northern Manhattan is far from over.
"We will redouble our efforts to protect our communities from other city-run facilities that operate without community oversight or accountability and endanger our health," says WE ACT's Peggy Shepard. Coalition members like Jordi Reyes-Montblanc, chairman of Community Board 9, expressed relief with a cautionary tone. "I'm pleased with the mayor's announcement," he said. "But I'm not completely satisfied this issue has gone away."
Thursday, November 11, 2004
Court Victory May Aid Citizen Enforcement Of Clean Water Act
Subject: Victory for environmental groups
Date: 11/11/2004 1:55:57 PM Eastern Standard Time
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Court Victory May Aid Citizen Enforcement Of Clean Water Act
A federal appeals court has for the first time clearly stated that environmental groups have standing to sue water dischargers to disclose monitoring and reporting data under the Clean Water Act.
A ruling earlier this month by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit is “critically important” to the ability of environmentalists and other citizen groups to enforce the water act, an environmental attorney familiar with the case says, noting that the discharge permitting program is a self-monitoring system. “We think it is an important victory for environmental groups.”
A district court had earlier dismissed the case, American Canoe Association, et al. v. City of Louisa Water & Sewer Commission, et al., which alleged the water commission had violated the terms of a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit for its water treatment plant by failing dozens of times to complete monitoring reports. The lower court said the plaintiffs, American Canoe Association and the Sierra Club, lacked standing to bring the suit.
But in a precedent-setting 2-1 decision, the Sixth Circuit ruled the organizations have standing to sue both on behalf of their members and on their own behalf for a so-called informational injury. The court agreed with the environmental groups that if a statute has a reporting requirement and those reports must be made public, the plaintiffs have suffered an injury if they are denied this information by the defendants’ failure to issue the reports.
The court accepted environmentalists’ arguments that related Supreme Court precedents addressing the Federal Election Committee Act (FECA) and Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) show that failure to disclose reportable data is an “informational injury” that is akin to an “injury in fact,” which is one of three tests plaintiffs must meet to demonstrate standing to sue.
But in a dissenting opinion, Senior Judge Cornelia G. Kennedy said granting the environmental groups standing based on an informational injury “impermissibly expands the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence on the subject” and “raises significant public policy concerns.” Additionally, Kennedy said that because it is clear the groups have standing to represent their members, there is no need to address the issue of informational standing.
“To be clear, the majority’s novel read of [past legal precedents] makes the Sixth Circuit the only circuit in the country to read these two cases so broadly,” Kennedy said. “The majority interprets these cases as creating a permissive standard that lower courts must use in deciding when citizens and organizations have the right to information. Reading [past precedents] in such a manner reads them in isolation from other important cases on the subject of standing.”
FECA and FACA were both specifically drafted to provide information to the public about the workings of government, Kennedy said. But the water act “in contrast, although it requires public disclosure of the permit compliance process, focuses instead on environmental protection, not on creating broad rights to information.” There is a “significant and important difference” between the information rights recognized in the past precedents and the information rights at issue in this case, Kennedy said.
Date: November 10, 2004
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Date: 11/11/2004 1:55:57 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: MarianR451
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Court Victory May Aid Citizen Enforcement Of Clean Water Act
A federal appeals court has for the first time clearly stated that environmental groups have standing to sue water dischargers to disclose monitoring and reporting data under the Clean Water Act.
A ruling earlier this month by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit is “critically important” to the ability of environmentalists and other citizen groups to enforce the water act, an environmental attorney familiar with the case says, noting that the discharge permitting program is a self-monitoring system. “We think it is an important victory for environmental groups.”
A district court had earlier dismissed the case, American Canoe Association, et al. v. City of Louisa Water & Sewer Commission, et al., which alleged the water commission had violated the terms of a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit for its water treatment plant by failing dozens of times to complete monitoring reports. The lower court said the plaintiffs, American Canoe Association and the Sierra Club, lacked standing to bring the suit.
But in a precedent-setting 2-1 decision, the Sixth Circuit ruled the organizations have standing to sue both on behalf of their members and on their own behalf for a so-called informational injury. The court agreed with the environmental groups that if a statute has a reporting requirement and those reports must be made public, the plaintiffs have suffered an injury if they are denied this information by the defendants’ failure to issue the reports.
The court accepted environmentalists’ arguments that related Supreme Court precedents addressing the Federal Election Committee Act (FECA) and Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) show that failure to disclose reportable data is an “informational injury” that is akin to an “injury in fact,” which is one of three tests plaintiffs must meet to demonstrate standing to sue.
But in a dissenting opinion, Senior Judge Cornelia G. Kennedy said granting the environmental groups standing based on an informational injury “impermissibly expands the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence on the subject” and “raises significant public policy concerns.” Additionally, Kennedy said that because it is clear the groups have standing to represent their members, there is no need to address the issue of informational standing.
“To be clear, the majority’s novel read of [past legal precedents] makes the Sixth Circuit the only circuit in the country to read these two cases so broadly,” Kennedy said. “The majority interprets these cases as creating a permissive standard that lower courts must use in deciding when citizens and organizations have the right to information. Reading [past precedents] in such a manner reads them in isolation from other important cases on the subject of standing.”
FECA and FACA were both specifically drafted to provide information to the public about the workings of government, Kennedy said. But the water act “in contrast, although it requires public disclosure of the permit compliance process, focuses instead on environmental protection, not on creating broad rights to information.” There is a “significant and important difference” between the information rights recognized in the past precedents and the information rights at issue in this case, Kennedy said.
Date: November 10, 2004
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Wednesday, November 10, 2004
Seeking NYC Latinos for Columbia University study
Click here: Hispanic Business Forums - Seeking NYC Latinos for Columbia University study
http://www.hispanicbusiness.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1469
Posted - 11/04/2004 : 1:23:32 PM
Study of Intergenerational Class Transmission among New York City Latinos
Call for Study Participants
Columbia University is currently recruiting participants for a study that examines how middle-class Latinos are successfully remaining middle class across generations. This question has important implications for the continuing socioeconomic progress of the Latino population in the United States, and there currently is no research available on it. New York City is the pilot city for this study, which will later be conducted on a nationwide scale.
We are currently recruiting individuals who meet the following criteria:
• Middle class Latina/o adults ages 50 to 65, who are long-term New York City residents and have grown children ages 25 to 35.
• Latina/o adults ages 25 to 35, who have grown up mostly in New York City and are the children of middle class parents.
Interested individuals will be given a five minute pre-screening to determine if they are eligible for the study. Those eligible will then be contacted to set up an interview, at a time and place convenient to the study participant.
If you meet the criteria described above and are interested in participating in this study, please contact Julia Busch at jlb2106@columbia.edu.
Further Information about the Study
This study examines the various family, school, work, and neighborhood processes by which middle-class Latino parents transmit their class status to their adult children. We are using an open-ended interview method for our research. We are interested in whether or not the adult children of middle-class Latino parents also have achieved middle-class status, and what specific practices of both parents and children allowed this to occur (or not).
The principal investigators for this study are Nicole P. Marwell, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Latina/o Studies at Columbia; and Rodolfo O. de la Garza, Professor of Political Science at Columbia, and Vice-President of the Tomás Rivera Policy Institute. This study has been reviewed and approved by the Institutional Review Board of Columbia University.
Nicole P. Marwell
Assistant Professor
Sociology & Latino Studies
Columbia University
New York, NY 10027
Reply:
Posted - 11/10/2004 : 10:44:59 AM
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Why is this study necessary?
Are you making or have you done a study of White middle classes to see how they retain their middle class status through various generations with the intention of applying whatever "secrets" you determine and then use that knowledge to help the White underclasses in Appalachia and Columbia's neighbors the Black underclasses of Harlem?
Do you realize that the Hispanic and Latino middle classes are racially the same as the non-Hispanic Whites and with the same European and Western cultural heritage?
Are you aware that the Latino underclasses, also neighbors of Columbia University, are mostly people of color who tend to be unskilled laborers, mostly under-educated and substantial numbers are even illiterate for the same reason as Blacks in Harlem and Native American in the reservations?
Do you realize that the Hispanic criollos in New York City hardly identify or even deal with the Latino mulato and mestizo underclasses except as superiors to inferiors, masters to servants, employers to employees?
I think I have given you the answers to your study!
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Roland Martell
http://www.hispanicbusiness.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1469
Posted - 11/04/2004 : 1:23:32 PM
Study of Intergenerational Class Transmission among New York City Latinos
Call for Study Participants
Columbia University is currently recruiting participants for a study that examines how middle-class Latinos are successfully remaining middle class across generations. This question has important implications for the continuing socioeconomic progress of the Latino population in the United States, and there currently is no research available on it. New York City is the pilot city for this study, which will later be conducted on a nationwide scale.
We are currently recruiting individuals who meet the following criteria:
• Middle class Latina/o adults ages 50 to 65, who are long-term New York City residents and have grown children ages 25 to 35.
• Latina/o adults ages 25 to 35, who have grown up mostly in New York City and are the children of middle class parents.
Interested individuals will be given a five minute pre-screening to determine if they are eligible for the study. Those eligible will then be contacted to set up an interview, at a time and place convenient to the study participant.
If you meet the criteria described above and are interested in participating in this study, please contact Julia Busch at jlb2106@columbia.edu.
Further Information about the Study
This study examines the various family, school, work, and neighborhood processes by which middle-class Latino parents transmit their class status to their adult children. We are using an open-ended interview method for our research. We are interested in whether or not the adult children of middle-class Latino parents also have achieved middle-class status, and what specific practices of both parents and children allowed this to occur (or not).
The principal investigators for this study are Nicole P. Marwell, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Latina/o Studies at Columbia; and Rodolfo O. de la Garza, Professor of Political Science at Columbia, and Vice-President of the Tomás Rivera Policy Institute. This study has been reviewed and approved by the Institutional Review Board of Columbia University.
Nicole P. Marwell
Assistant Professor
Sociology & Latino Studies
Columbia University
New York, NY 10027
Reply:
Posted - 11/10/2004 : 10:44:59 AM
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Why is this study necessary?
Are you making or have you done a study of White middle classes to see how they retain their middle class status through various generations with the intention of applying whatever "secrets" you determine and then use that knowledge to help the White underclasses in Appalachia and Columbia's neighbors the Black underclasses of Harlem?
Do you realize that the Hispanic and Latino middle classes are racially the same as the non-Hispanic Whites and with the same European and Western cultural heritage?
Are you aware that the Latino underclasses, also neighbors of Columbia University, are mostly people of color who tend to be unskilled laborers, mostly under-educated and substantial numbers are even illiterate for the same reason as Blacks in Harlem and Native American in the reservations?
Do you realize that the Hispanic criollos in New York City hardly identify or even deal with the Latino mulato and mestizo underclasses except as superiors to inferiors, masters to servants, employers to employees?
I think I have given you the answers to your study!
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Roland Martell
Tuesday, November 09, 2004
197-A Plan Seeks to Set Framework for Local Development
http://www.columbiaspectator.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2004/11/10/4191c0f29e29a?in_archive=1
News
197-A Plan Seeks to Set Framework for Local Development
By Jimmy Vielkind
Spectator Staff Writer
November 10, 2004
After years of drafting and negotiations, an overarching urban design plan that will influence developments for years to come was unanimously approved by Community Board 9 last month.
The recommendations in the 197-A plan, as the framework is called, cover everything from where specific types of development can occur to issues of transportation, housing, jobs, and the environment.
Columbia administrators said they are willing to work with the community, but are not ready to commit to the limitations of the 197-A plan.
CB9's plan will cover Columbia's proposed expansion into Manhattanville as well as the rest of Community District 9, which runs from 110th to 155th Streets west of Morningside and St. Nicholas Parks, and is seen as a means to give the local community a say in the future development of the area.
"The 197-A plan is not a reaction to the Columbia expansion at all," CB9 Chairman Jordi Reyes-Montblanc said. "What the 197-A plan does is create a framework that Columbia's expansion will have to fit in which is why so many activists, groups and individuals support CB9M's 197-A plan."
As part of its expansion plans, Columbia has requested that the City rezone the area, which involves changing the laws that determine what can be built in a given space. They ask that the proposed campus area be changed from industrial to a designation that will allows for other uses, including classrooms, retail space, and housing.
The term 197-A plan comes from the section of the 1975 City Charter which grants Community Boards the opportunity to put forth a concrete community vision and provides the means for community-initiated local planning.
CB9's 197-A plan allows for rezoning, but only with strict limitations. First, any developer, including Columbia, would have to enter into a "community benefits agreement," which is a binding contract with local residents.
The agreement would exist to "assure that the environment is protected, that housing opportunities for low-, moderate-, and middle-income residents are protected and expanded, and that high-road jobs and locally-owned businesses will be created and existing businesses preserved," according to the plan.
The plan also calls on developers to take steps toward preserving housing in West Harlem through the process of inclusionary zoning. When areas are rezoned so that higher buildings can be built, developers would be required to set aside a certain part of any new construction as affordable housing.
Now that it has been approved by CB9, the plan will be reviewed by the Department of City Planning. This process will take some time, and it is likely that revisions will need to be made. Once approved by City Planning, the 197-A will be reviewed by the Borough president before being voted on by the City Council.
But while the plan provides strong recommendations for future developers, it does not have the power of a law.
"The 197-A plan is the only community-based plans that have any community review," said Mercedes Narciso, who led the team from Pratt Institute, which drafted the 197-A plan. "But they don't have any teeth because they don't become an ordinance. It's never in the charter, it's never explained. It's just a guideline for future development in the area."
Columbia officials, while pointing to ongoing efforts to reach out to the community, are not ready to commit to an agreement in such a concrete form.
But Reyes-Montblanc was optimistic. Since the 197-A represents the will of the people, he said it was "highly respected by the City agencies" when it comes to development.
"I don't think the University is opposed to formalizing how the development will benefit the community, but the specific form of how that agreement would be reached is something the University is currently thinking about," said Jeremiah Stoldt, director of the campus plan for facilities management.
He said he thought the plan was an important step for the community and hoped that Columbia can work within its framework.
"[Columbia's plan and the 197-A are] fundamentally two different documents, but in the majority of cases, there is a good deal of overlap," Stoldt said.
Tom Demott, a member of the Coalition to Preserve Community, said the agreement could potentially be effective. "I think that we had to compromise on some points, but overall, I think that the plan--if implemented--would accomplish the goal of keeping businesses and residents, and keeping the neighborhood more or less intact," he said.
DeMott said he had originally hoped that the plan would recommend against rezoning the Manhattanville expansion site, but worked with the planners from Pratt to find a compromise through the community benefits agreement and use of inclusionary zoning.
News
197-A Plan Seeks to Set Framework for Local Development
By Jimmy Vielkind
Spectator Staff Writer
November 10, 2004
After years of drafting and negotiations, an overarching urban design plan that will influence developments for years to come was unanimously approved by Community Board 9 last month.
The recommendations in the 197-A plan, as the framework is called, cover everything from where specific types of development can occur to issues of transportation, housing, jobs, and the environment.
Columbia administrators said they are willing to work with the community, but are not ready to commit to the limitations of the 197-A plan.
CB9's plan will cover Columbia's proposed expansion into Manhattanville as well as the rest of Community District 9, which runs from 110th to 155th Streets west of Morningside and St. Nicholas Parks, and is seen as a means to give the local community a say in the future development of the area.
"The 197-A plan is not a reaction to the Columbia expansion at all," CB9 Chairman Jordi Reyes-Montblanc said. "What the 197-A plan does is create a framework that Columbia's expansion will have to fit in which is why so many activists, groups and individuals support CB9M's 197-A plan."
As part of its expansion plans, Columbia has requested that the City rezone the area, which involves changing the laws that determine what can be built in a given space. They ask that the proposed campus area be changed from industrial to a designation that will allows for other uses, including classrooms, retail space, and housing.
The term 197-A plan comes from the section of the 1975 City Charter which grants Community Boards the opportunity to put forth a concrete community vision and provides the means for community-initiated local planning.
CB9's 197-A plan allows for rezoning, but only with strict limitations. First, any developer, including Columbia, would have to enter into a "community benefits agreement," which is a binding contract with local residents.
The agreement would exist to "assure that the environment is protected, that housing opportunities for low-, moderate-, and middle-income residents are protected and expanded, and that high-road jobs and locally-owned businesses will be created and existing businesses preserved," according to the plan.
The plan also calls on developers to take steps toward preserving housing in West Harlem through the process of inclusionary zoning. When areas are rezoned so that higher buildings can be built, developers would be required to set aside a certain part of any new construction as affordable housing.
Now that it has been approved by CB9, the plan will be reviewed by the Department of City Planning. This process will take some time, and it is likely that revisions will need to be made. Once approved by City Planning, the 197-A will be reviewed by the Borough president before being voted on by the City Council.
But while the plan provides strong recommendations for future developers, it does not have the power of a law.
"The 197-A plan is the only community-based plans that have any community review," said Mercedes Narciso, who led the team from Pratt Institute, which drafted the 197-A plan. "But they don't have any teeth because they don't become an ordinance. It's never in the charter, it's never explained. It's just a guideline for future development in the area."
Columbia officials, while pointing to ongoing efforts to reach out to the community, are not ready to commit to an agreement in such a concrete form.
But Reyes-Montblanc was optimistic. Since the 197-A represents the will of the people, he said it was "highly respected by the City agencies" when it comes to development.
"I don't think the University is opposed to formalizing how the development will benefit the community, but the specific form of how that agreement would be reached is something the University is currently thinking about," said Jeremiah Stoldt, director of the campus plan for facilities management.
He said he thought the plan was an important step for the community and hoped that Columbia can work within its framework.
"[Columbia's plan and the 197-A are] fundamentally two different documents, but in the majority of cases, there is a good deal of overlap," Stoldt said.
Tom Demott, a member of the Coalition to Preserve Community, said the agreement could potentially be effective. "I think that we had to compromise on some points, but overall, I think that the plan--if implemented--would accomplish the goal of keeping businesses and residents, and keeping the neighborhood more or less intact," he said.
DeMott said he had originally hoped that the plan would recommend against rezoning the Manhattanville expansion site, but worked with the planners from Pratt to find a compromise through the community benefits agreement and use of inclusionary zoning.
Monday, November 08, 2004
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Reclaiming New York’s Henry Hudson Parkway
The Henry Hudson Parkway, was constructed from 1932-36 with federal money for park improvements under the centralized parkway authority headed by Robert Moses. It introduced a distinctly urban form of the American parkway. Its landscape was conceived as more than a scenic backdrop for motorists entering Manhattan; it was a grand linear park system which would showcase the city’s residents at play as well as its skyline and monuments.
At its best, the parkway was a seamless and intimate integration of park and roadway. In this Manhattan section, Robert Moses extended the park and the vision of Frederick Law Olmsted by covering a rail line with a terraced esplanade that lead to beautiful tunnels like this one giving New Yorkers their first true waterfront access. Today the corridor is undergoing an resurgence, with a greenway, recreation, economic development, and environmental conservation.
The new challenge is now restoration and rehabilitation of the parkway itself.An initiative by volunteers to designate the Henry Hudson Parkway a Scenic Byway, the first in New York City, will insure that the parkway complements instead of sabotages future planning for the corridor, including the waterfront.
This year the New York Metropolitan Transportation Council (a regional planning agency administering federal transportation funds) approved funding for the first corridor management plan for a New York City parkway, and will oversee the unprecedented collaboration of some 20 different city and state agencies in its development.
Meanwhile, volunteers continue to rescue the parkway one piece of blight at a time. Here, one of the many parkway overpasses in the Bronx was transformed by volunteers and the New York City Parks Department into a block-long green-street.
The natural area alongside the highway is being turned into a woodland trail and part of the city’s greenway system."Next volunteers are set to tackle the path under the parkway near the George Washington Bridge, one of the few places in northern Manhattan to access the waterfront and greenway.
With no agency claiming responsibility for maintenance (a crucial problem of the city’s parkways to be addressed by the CMP), the once-magnificent stairs and walkway has become a deterrent to residents’ enjoyment of their great new waterfront.
Look for daffodils and creative solutions to the challenge of designing a space like this.For more information about the Henry Hudson Parkway Scenic Byway initiative, see the website (http://www.henryhudsonparkway.org) or email at info@henryhudsonparkway.org
Text prepared by Hilary Kitasei, Henry Hudson Parkway Task Force, chair Edits for historicroads.org by Dan Marriott
http://www.historicroads.org/sub7_1.htm
HISTORIC ROADS
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Reclaiming New York’s Henry Hudson Parkway
The Henry Hudson Parkway, was constructed from 1932-36 with federal money for park improvements under the centralized parkway authority headed by Robert Moses. It introduced a distinctly urban form of the American parkway. Its landscape was conceived as more than a scenic backdrop for motorists entering Manhattan; it was a grand linear park system which would showcase the city’s residents at play as well as its skyline and monuments.
At its best, the parkway was a seamless and intimate integration of park and roadway. In this Manhattan section, Robert Moses extended the park and the vision of Frederick Law Olmsted by covering a rail line with a terraced esplanade that lead to beautiful tunnels like this one giving New Yorkers their first true waterfront access. Today the corridor is undergoing an resurgence, with a greenway, recreation, economic development, and environmental conservation.
The new challenge is now restoration and rehabilitation of the parkway itself.An initiative by volunteers to designate the Henry Hudson Parkway a Scenic Byway, the first in New York City, will insure that the parkway complements instead of sabotages future planning for the corridor, including the waterfront.
This year the New York Metropolitan Transportation Council (a regional planning agency administering federal transportation funds) approved funding for the first corridor management plan for a New York City parkway, and will oversee the unprecedented collaboration of some 20 different city and state agencies in its development.
Meanwhile, volunteers continue to rescue the parkway one piece of blight at a time. Here, one of the many parkway overpasses in the Bronx was transformed by volunteers and the New York City Parks Department into a block-long green-street.
The natural area alongside the highway is being turned into a woodland trail and part of the city’s greenway system."Next volunteers are set to tackle the path under the parkway near the George Washington Bridge, one of the few places in northern Manhattan to access the waterfront and greenway.
With no agency claiming responsibility for maintenance (a crucial problem of the city’s parkways to be addressed by the CMP), the once-magnificent stairs and walkway has become a deterrent to residents’ enjoyment of their great new waterfront.
Look for daffodils and creative solutions to the challenge of designing a space like this.For more information about the Henry Hudson Parkway Scenic Byway initiative, see the website (http://www.henryhudsonparkway.org) or email at info@henryhudsonparkway.org
Text prepared by Hilary Kitasei, Henry Hudson Parkway Task Force, chair Edits for historicroads.org by Dan Marriott
KJC newsletter 11-08-04
KING JUAN CARLOS I OF SPAIN CENTER
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
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Tuesday, November 9, 6:15 p.m.Lecture: “Violence and Civilization, Critical Theory and the Progress of Warfare” by Eduardo Subirats, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, New York University.In English
Wednesday, November 10, 6:15 p.m.Lecture: “The Untold story of the American Embassy's connection to the Spanish underground in Madrid during World War II, and how McCarthyism brought it to an end” by Barbara Probst Solomon, writer and journalist.
Thursday, November 11, 5:00 p.m.Colloquium: "Laclau's Political Theory: Glimpsing the Future"with Ernesto Laclau, Joan Copjec, Linda Zerilli, Gabriela Basterra, Simon Critchley and Oliver Marchart. Includes presentation of Laclau: A Critical Reader (London: Routledge, 2004). Organized by Gabriela Basterra, Department of Spanish and Portuguese and Collège International de Philosophie, Paris. Co-sponsored by the Albert Schweitzer Chair in the Humanities and the Collège International de Philosophie.In English
Friday, November, 12 and Saturday, November, 13Conference: "Arte de Archivo - Archive Art"A two day conference reflecting and showing interventions of artists working on institutional archives through media, ranging from documentary film to photography or urbanism, to question, decipher and propose alternatives to canonical narratives. Participants include artist and theorist Coco Fusco, film director José Luis López Linares and urban intervention group La Fiambrera Obrera. Organized by Juan Salas, Performance Studies Department, New York University.Full program will be available at www.nyu.edu/kjc
53 Washington Square South, Suite 201. NY-NY 10012 - tel 212 998 3650 - fax 212 995 4804 - www.nyu.edu/kjc
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NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
download Fall 04 calendar
Tuesday, November 9, 6:15 p.m.Lecture: “Violence and Civilization, Critical Theory and the Progress of Warfare” by Eduardo Subirats, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, New York University.In English
Wednesday, November 10, 6:15 p.m.Lecture: “The Untold story of the American Embassy's connection to the Spanish underground in Madrid during World War II, and how McCarthyism brought it to an end” by Barbara Probst Solomon, writer and journalist.
Thursday, November 11, 5:00 p.m.Colloquium: "Laclau's Political Theory: Glimpsing the Future"with Ernesto Laclau, Joan Copjec, Linda Zerilli, Gabriela Basterra, Simon Critchley and Oliver Marchart. Includes presentation of Laclau: A Critical Reader (London: Routledge, 2004). Organized by Gabriela Basterra, Department of Spanish and Portuguese and Collège International de Philosophie, Paris. Co-sponsored by the Albert Schweitzer Chair in the Humanities and the Collège International de Philosophie.In English
Friday, November, 12 and Saturday, November, 13Conference: "Arte de Archivo - Archive Art"A two day conference reflecting and showing interventions of artists working on institutional archives through media, ranging from documentary film to photography or urbanism, to question, decipher and propose alternatives to canonical narratives. Participants include artist and theorist Coco Fusco, film director José Luis López Linares and urban intervention group La Fiambrera Obrera. Organized by Juan Salas, Performance Studies Department, New York University.Full program will be available at www.nyu.edu/kjc
53 Washington Square South, Suite 201. NY-NY 10012 - tel 212 998 3650 - fax 212 995 4804 - www.nyu.edu/kjc
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The Henry Hudson Parkway Scenic Byway Initiative
Click here: The Henry Hudson Parkway Scenic Byway Initiative :: Keep the PARK in Parkway!
http://www.henryhudsonparkway.org/
Welcome to The Henry Hudson Parkway Scenic Byway Initiative website, created and maintained by the Henry Hudson Parkway Task Force. We are a group of dedicated individuals and local organizations who want to keep the Park in Parkway.
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ABOUT THE HENRY HUDSON PARKWAY
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WHY A SCENIC BYWAY?
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CONTROVERSIES
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UPDATES
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ABOUT US
Funding for this website was provided by the J.M. Kaplan Fund, New York Community Trust and Con Edison
PHOTOGRAPHS BY MASSIMO STRINO, JON BENFATTI, ELIZABETH RITTER, AND HILARY KITASEI
2003 Henry Hudson Parkway Task Force All Rights Reserved :: contact us :: site map
http://www.henryhudsonparkway.org/
Welcome to The Henry Hudson Parkway Scenic Byway Initiative website, created and maintained by the Henry Hudson Parkway Task Force. We are a group of dedicated individuals and local organizations who want to keep the Park in Parkway.
::
ABOUT THE HENRY HUDSON PARKWAY
::
WHY A SCENIC BYWAY?
::
CONTROVERSIES
::
UPDATES
::
ABOUT US
Funding for this website was provided by the J.M. Kaplan Fund, New York Community Trust and Con Edison
PHOTOGRAPHS BY MASSIMO STRINO, JON BENFATTI, ELIZABETH RITTER, AND HILARY KITASEI
2003 Henry Hudson Parkway Task Force All Rights Reserved :: contact us :: site map
Saturday, November 06, 2004
Nov. 2
I am wondering where is the outrage that the elections were tampered with, sabotagued and otherwise illegal? I see nothing from the NY elected officials on the gross crimes committed in the so-called vote count. Many are chronicled on www.legitgov.org.
I worked in Franklin County (Columbus) Ohio and that vote was basically thrown away. I know the press is compromised but our elected officials should at least be offering statements. Belarus declared the US election fraudulent. They should know since they are part of the former USSR. This silence is deafening.
I worked in Franklin County (Columbus) Ohio and that vote was basically thrown away. I know the press is compromised but our elected officials should at least be offering statements. Belarus declared the US election fraudulent. They should know since they are part of the former USSR. This silence is deafening.
Friday, November 05, 2004
Eco-Metropolis 2004
Subject: Fwd: Eco-Metropolis
Date: 11/5/2004 12:57:20 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: DZias
Reply To: piccedlist@picced.org,
Dear Energy Smart Partners,
Please forward this important conference info to interested parties.
Thanks,
Dean Zias
Energy Smart Communities-----------------Forwarded Message:
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Date: 11/4/2004 6:24:56 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: DLevine@gc.cuny.edu
To: DLevine@gc.cuny.edu
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Greetings,
We are extremely excited about your upcoming participation in Eco-Metropolis. Obviously, there is even more of a need than ever before for this and other gatherings like it. We are working hard to ensure that everyone that should or would want to know about this important gathering does. Below is the conference blurb and schedule that we hope you have already sent out but can now send again. We are making another push to encourage you to circulate this widely among your circles. Eco-Metropolis is a totally grassroots initiative, so we hope that you can make another effort to help us build this event. It was conceived of as a vehicle to help celebrate and energize our wondrously diverse eco-community, so its success depends entirely on that community's level of enthusiasm. Please, if you can, help us propagate this notice as well as to post on websites, newsletters, etc.Thank you.
David Levine
Director, Continuing Education & Public Programs
The Graduate Center, CUNY
Eco-Metropolis 2004:
Toward a Green, Just, Sustainable Greater NYCA NY Open Center/ Continuing Education & Public Programs, The Graduate Center, CUNY/and Bioneers Conference co-productionat: CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Ave, at 34th Ston: November 12, 13 & 14Come discover and celebrate our city and region's wildly creative and diverse eco-activist communities from up the Hudson to the South Bronx to Harlem down to the Lower East Side, from Greenpoint to Sunset Park, from the Gowanus Canal and Newton Creek to Jamaica Bay and the Meadowlands; from environmental justice, water, air, food and bicycle activists to visionary "green" architects, designers, urban planners, entrepreneurs, scientists, artists, engineers, educators and labor leaders. The ideas, initiatives and energy to make our city and region greener, cleaner, saner, fairer, freer and more joyous are here now. Come help make it happen!-Plenary Celebration: Friday, November 12th, 7pmTalks by Anna Lappé and others tba, Native American music, the explosive Middle Eastern percussion of Raquy Danziger, poets including the Bowery Poetry Club's Bob Holman, and more. $10 (or free with full conference ticket)-Workshops and Panels with leading figures from across the spectrum of the NY eco universe, all day Sat. and Sun-10:30am to 5pm
-Mixer/Networking party-Saturday at 5pm. -Extraordinary talks from renowned eco-legends from Bioneers 04 on tape delay
Cost: whole event: $50 (or $75-eco-hero rate-your extra dollars support scholarships);
single day: $25
For complete schedule see below or check http://www.opencenter.org/Eco/
To register contact Continuing Education & Public Programs, The Graduate Center, CUNY 212 817-8215
or the NY Open Center 212 219-2527
Friday evening, November 127PM - Plenary Session Opening ceremony Native American music from Franc Menusan organizers' greetings talks by Omar Freilla of the Green Workers' Cooperatives and Sustainable South Bronx; Anna Lappé of the Small Planet Fund; and others tba eco-poetry from Bowery Poetry Club's Bob Holman and Patti Trimble the explosive middle-east percussion of Raquy Danziger Eco-Art slide show and more!
Saturday, November 13Panels:10:30AM to Noon:
An Ecotopian NYC? Gardens and Visionswith David Lutz, executive director of the Neighborhood Open Space CoalitionRebecca Ferguson of the Green Guerrillas andBrian Sahd of the New York Restoration Project;moderated by John Crow of the Brooklyn Bear Community Garden
Communicating Sustainabilitywith Jaimie Cloud, founder of the Sustainability Education Center;Jean Gardner, professor in the Dept. of Architecture at The New School's Parsons School of Design; andGreen Map System founder Wendy Brawer.
Big City Transportationhosted by "E" magazine editor and transportation expert Jim Motavalli;with renowned activist Charles Komanoff (author of The Bicycle Blueprint, Killed By Automobile, and Ending The Oil Age)and Paul S. White, executive director, Transportation Alternatives.
Youth Activism and Eco-Politicswith Sarah Walker of Sustainable Pratt, Pratt Collaboratives and the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG);Irene Shen, Environmental Justice Coordinator of UPROSE;others tba Post Election Analysiswith Michael Tomasky, executive editor of The American Prospect;Marcia Bystryn, executive director of the New York League of Conservation Voters, and others tba;hosted by Anne Hemenway of the National Committee for an Effective Congress (NCEC) and J.P. Harpignies, author of Political Ecosystems
Saturday, 12:30 to 5PM:
On both Saturday and Sunday videotaped plenary addresses from Bioneers 2004 (held October 15-17) will be shown in the recital hall, including:
Terry Tempest Williams
Wanjira Mathai
Amory Lovins
Amy Goodman
John Mohawk
Paul Hawken
Lateefah Simon
LaDonna Redmond
Michael Lerner
Candace Pert
Aqeela Sherrills
Paul Stamets
Jason Clay and
Martha Arguello
Complete biographies of the speakers are available at http://www.bioneers.org/.
Saturday, 1:30 to 3PM:
Protecting Clean Water/Revitalizing the Hudson/Shutting Down Indian Pointwith Carolyn Zolas, chair of the Sierra Club's NYS Watershed Committee and of Clean Water for the Bronx, and on the board of the Croton Watershed Clean Water Coalition (who will also serve as moderator);Lisa Rainwater van Suntum, Riverkeeper's Indian Point outreach coordinator; and Ryan Palmer, Environmental Associate, Hudson River Sloop Clearwater Innovative Urban Eco-Techco-sponsored by the Buckminster Fuller Institute (BFI);hosted by BFI acting executive director Elizabeth Thompson;presentations on:Urban Fish Farming with Martin Schreibman, founder of the Aquatic Research and Environmental Assessment Center, biology professor at Brooklyn College and visionary fish farmer now raising over 3000 tilapia on Flatbush Avenue!;An "off the Grid" City? - with a rep. from Verdant Power-a pioneering energy company deploying an underwater turbine system in the East River; andTools for Planning the Sustainable City with Ben Discoe, founder of the V-Terrain project, an expert in GIS, 3-D visualization tools, and other data mapping technologies.
Globalization and Empire;hosted by New York Open Center co-founder Ralph White andNanette Schorr, coordinator for the Task Force on Law and Meaning;others tba
Linking City and Country: CSAs, Farmers' Markets and Food Justicewith Just Foods' City Farms Manager Kathleen McTigue; Brian Schundler, Americorps Vista/ CSA in NYC Associate, and food activist Bryant Terry ("b-healthy")
A Model of Cross-disciplinary Collaboration in Sustainabilityfeaturing the work of Sustainable Pratt, a pioneering group of Pratt department chairs, professors and students working to build a coordinated sustainability curriculum and to develop "green" projects: a model of how an interdisciplinary group can make a university curriculum and surrounding community more sustainable.Hosted by professors Amy Lesen (biology) and Frank Millero (industrial design);with Caleb Crawford, assistant chair of undergraduate architecture;Dean Zias, a renowned Pratt urban planner with 26 years' experience;student environmental leader Sarah Walker; andDebera Johnson, chair of industrial design
Saturday, 3:30 to 5PM
Voluntary Simplicity and Over-consumptionwith NYC Voluntary Simplicity pioneer Mary Barknecht, andStephan Chenault, long time sustainability, community building, social justice and hunger and homelessness activist, former Chair of the Wildlife and Wilderness and Environmental Justice committees of the NYC Sierra Club, founder of the Coalition for Forests and EcoLobby and chair of the Central Brooklyn Chapter of the Neighborhood Energy Network Animals and the Metro-Global Environmentthe intersection of animal rights, social justice movements and environmentalism; animal advocacy within the context of urban, regional, and international conservation efforts,with Martin Rowe, co-founder of Lantern Books; Mia MacDonald, senior fellow of the World Watch Institute; Catherine Clyne, editor of SATYA magazine; Patrick Kwan, founder of the Student Animal Rights Alliance; and Lawrence Carter-Long, NY Director of In Defense of Animals Learning from NY's Indigenous Cultureswith storyteller-artist-musician and educator Franc Menusan; Evan Pritchard, author of Native New Yorkers and No Word for Time, andRoberto Mucaro Borrero of the Museum of Natural History;others tba
The Nature Network (3:30-4:15)Bill Shore, acting chair of the Nature Network, will describe this new major collaboration of the major environmental institutions of our regionTraffic Calming (4:15-5pm)David Lutz of the Neighborhood Open Space Coalition will discuss why traffic calming is a key strategy for creating a sane, livable and cleaner city.
5:15 PM:Mixer, Film/video screenings
Sunday, November 14thPanels:10:30AM to Noon:
Socially Responsible Entrepreneurshipwith Matthew Bernardo, President of Housing Works Thrift Stores; Laurie Lewis of Patagonia; and Mark Caserta of the eco-store, 3R Living, and Omar Freilla, a founding member of Sustainable South Bronx, Chair of the NYC Environmental Justice Alliance and founder of the new Green Worker Cooperatives, dedicated to bringing worker-owned and eco friendly manufacturing jobs to the South Bronx;moderated by Christina Cobb, founder of the progressive and eco PR firm, Free Agency Environmental Educationwith Mike Zamm, Director of Environmental Education, Council on the Environment of NYC; Barry Weinbrom, Director of After School Activity Programs (ASAP);Brian Johnson of the Prospect Park Audubon Center; andShelley Berlincourt, on board educator for Hudson River Sloop Clearwater Environmental Justice with West Harlem Environmental Action (WEACT) program director Cecil Corbin-Mark;Majora J. Carter, founder and executive director of Sustainable South Bronx;ShaKing Alston, executive director of the Environmental Justice Alliance; andSamara F. Swanston, esq, renowned environmental attorney and activist and state chair of the Sierra Club's Environmental Justice Committee Eco-aware Urban Architecture and Designwith Paul Mankiewicz of the Gaia Institute, a pioneering visionary of sustainable urban design;GreenHomeNYC Executive director Cat Fitzgerald; andarchitect Neil Chambers, executive director of Green Ground Zero, dedicated to making NYC and urban areas worldwide more livable and sustainable;hosted by architect and professor of sustainable design at Parsons, David Bergman The Greening of Cuisine: Sustainable Restaurateuringhosted by Hilary Baum; withLeslie McEachern of Angelica Kitchen;chef, writer and activist Sarah Copeland; andHiram Bonner, director of the Community Food Resource Center:come hear about the transformative effect creative, conscious chefs and restaurateurs can have in influencing positive food trends in the larger society
Sunday, 12:30 to 5PM:
On both Saturday and Sunday videotaped plenary addresses from Bioneers 2004 (held October 15-17) will be shown in the recital hall, including:
Terry Tempest Williams
Wanjira Mathai
Amory Lovins
Amy Goodman
John Mohawk
Paul Hawken
Lateefah Simon
LaDonna Redmond
Michael Lerner
Candace Pert
Aqeela Sherrills
Paul Stamets
Jason Clay and
Martha Arguello
Complete biographies of the speakers are available at http://www.bioneers.org/.
Sunday, 1:30 to 3PM:
Urban Wildlifewith E.J. McAdams, NY Audubon Society;Terri Carta, Manager of Community Partnerships and Programs at the Central Park Conservancy; andSara Hobel of the Urban Park Rangers;moderated by Diana Gilchrist, Eco-Metropolis co-producer
Jobs/Development and the Environmentwith Nancy Anderson of the City Comptroller's office,builder/developer Carlton Brown,Jeremy Reiss, Director of Urban Agenda, a joint project of the NYC Central Labor Council and the Queens College Labor Resource Center, andmoderator Eva Hanhardt of the Municipal Art Society Neighborhood Restorationwith architect and waterfront revival activist Owen Foote of the Gowanus Dredgers;Harry J. Bubbins director of the Downtown Bronx Eco Development Corporation;others tba
Eco-Medicinehosted by J.P. Harpignies, co-editor of Ecological Medicine;with research scientist Cynthia Rosenzweig of the Climate Impacts Group at NASA/Goddard Institute for Space Studies;Suzanne Mattei, New York City Executive for the Sierra Clubothers tba
The Nature of New York "Exploring the Nature of New York" is a groundbreaking new course at CUNY that explores the interconnectivity of cultural, economic and ecological forces within New York and how the city's size, density and wealth of resources affect not just natural life in the area but in the entire region and nation. Ornithologist, researcher and CUNY professor David Rosane (and other speakers tba) will discuss how to acquire ecological literacy about the city we live in and an enhanced awareness of its unique natural heritage.
Sunday, 3:30 to 5PM
Getting Environmental Issues on the NYC Electoral Agenda: the Mayoral Race and Beyond with Craig Wilson, Director of NYC Policy and Advocacy of The NY League of Conservation Voters; Ken Baer, Atlantic Chapter Chairperson, Sierra Club; others tba
Energizing New York: Toward Wiser Energy Choices hosted by solar designer Amelia Amon, co-founder of the design organization O2NY and board member of the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association; Dean Zias, of NYSERDA's (NY State Energy Research and Development Authority) Energy Smart Communities Outreach program; Virali Gokaldas, recycling specialist and Urban Research Fellow at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC); and leading eco-conscious architect Chris Benedict
NY-area Alt Mediafacilitated by long-time activist, WBAI's Deena Kolbert;with Pamela Peeters of Manhattan Neighborhood Network;Tony Riddle of The Media Foundation;and others tba
Art and the Environmentwith world-renowned visionary artist Alexis Rockman;Ecoartspace co-founder Amy Lipton;curator Linda Weintraub, former Professor of Contemporary Art at Oberlin and director of the museum at Bard and author of Art on the Edge and Over: Searching for Art's Meaning in Contemporary Society; andElizabeth Thompson
Bicycle Power in NYCwith moderator Aaron Naparstek, author of Honku: the Zen Antidote to Road Rage, Karen Overton of Recycle a Bicycle, George Bliss of Pedicabs of NY, Matthew Roth of Times Up! Critical Mass; andNoah Budnick, Projects Director for Transportation Alternatives, and its head bicycle advocate
Admission:$10 - Friday night only$25 - single days$50 - entire event$75 - supporting level: your extra dollars will help provide scholarships to low-income activists
Note: attendees will have to bring their lunch or snacks or purchase food and beverages from CUNY's onsite cafeteria vendor or at a local eatery as there will be no conference-provided food.
Groups and institutions affiliated with speakers (partial list):
"E" magazineThe Buckminster Fuller InstituteGreenHomeNYCGreen Ground ZeroGaia InstituteLapis onlineBowery Poetry ClubSmall Planet FundSustainable South BronxWest Harlem Environmental ActionEnvironmental Justice AllianceDowntown Bronx Eco Development CorporationGreenpoint/Williamsburg Watchperson ProjectGowanus DredgersCentral Labor CouncilMunicipal Art SocietyNeighborhood Open Space CoalitionGreen GuerrillasNY Restoration ProjectBrooklyn Bear Community GardenThe Nature NetworkSustainability Education CenterGreen Map SystemWaterwireMetropolitan Waterfront Alliance: The River ProjectRiverkeeperClearwaterClean Water for the Bronx
Croton Watershed Clean Water CoalitionTask Force on Law and MeaningJust FoodHousing WorksPatagonia3R LivingSustainable PrattPratt Industrial Design DepartmentPratt CollaborativesNYPIRGCentral Park ConservancyUrban Park RangersProspect Park Audubon CenterLantern BooksSatya magazineWorldwatch InstituteStudent Animal Rights AllianceIn Defense of AnimalsThe American ProspectThe Nation InstituteSierra ClubVerdant PowerThe V-Terrain ProjectClimate Impacts Group at NASANYSERDAFree AgencyThe Baum ForumAngelica KitchenAquatic Research and Environmental Assessment Center at Brooklyn CollegeTransportation Alternatives
To register contact
Continuing Education & Public Programs, The Graduate Center, CUNY 212 817-8215 or the
NY Open Center 212 219-2527
Date: 11/5/2004 12:57:20 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: DZias
Reply To: piccedlist@picced.org,
Dear Energy Smart Partners,
Please forward this important conference info to interested parties.
Thanks,
Dean Zias
Energy Smart Communities-----------------Forwarded Message:
Subj: Eco-Metorpolis
Date: 11/4/2004 6:24:56 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: DLevine@gc.cuny.edu
To: DLevine@gc.cuny.edu
Sent from the Internet (Details)
Greetings,
We are extremely excited about your upcoming participation in Eco-Metropolis. Obviously, there is even more of a need than ever before for this and other gatherings like it. We are working hard to ensure that everyone that should or would want to know about this important gathering does. Below is the conference blurb and schedule that we hope you have already sent out but can now send again. We are making another push to encourage you to circulate this widely among your circles. Eco-Metropolis is a totally grassroots initiative, so we hope that you can make another effort to help us build this event. It was conceived of as a vehicle to help celebrate and energize our wondrously diverse eco-community, so its success depends entirely on that community's level of enthusiasm. Please, if you can, help us propagate this notice as well as to post on websites, newsletters, etc.Thank you.
David Levine
Director, Continuing Education & Public Programs
The Graduate Center, CUNY
Eco-Metropolis 2004:
Toward a Green, Just, Sustainable Greater NYCA NY Open Center/ Continuing Education & Public Programs, The Graduate Center, CUNY/and Bioneers Conference co-productionat: CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Ave, at 34th Ston: November 12, 13 & 14Come discover and celebrate our city and region's wildly creative and diverse eco-activist communities from up the Hudson to the South Bronx to Harlem down to the Lower East Side, from Greenpoint to Sunset Park, from the Gowanus Canal and Newton Creek to Jamaica Bay and the Meadowlands; from environmental justice, water, air, food and bicycle activists to visionary "green" architects, designers, urban planners, entrepreneurs, scientists, artists, engineers, educators and labor leaders. The ideas, initiatives and energy to make our city and region greener, cleaner, saner, fairer, freer and more joyous are here now. Come help make it happen!-Plenary Celebration: Friday, November 12th, 7pmTalks by Anna Lappé and others tba, Native American music, the explosive Middle Eastern percussion of Raquy Danziger, poets including the Bowery Poetry Club's Bob Holman, and more. $10 (or free with full conference ticket)-Workshops and Panels with leading figures from across the spectrum of the NY eco universe, all day Sat. and Sun-10:30am to 5pm
-Mixer/Networking party-Saturday at 5pm. -Extraordinary talks from renowned eco-legends from Bioneers 04 on tape delay
Cost: whole event: $50 (or $75-eco-hero rate-your extra dollars support scholarships);
single day: $25
For complete schedule see below or check http://www.opencenter.org/Eco/
To register contact Continuing Education & Public Programs, The Graduate Center, CUNY 212 817-8215
or the NY Open Center 212 219-2527
Friday evening, November 127PM - Plenary Session Opening ceremony Native American music from Franc Menusan organizers' greetings talks by Omar Freilla of the Green Workers' Cooperatives and Sustainable South Bronx; Anna Lappé of the Small Planet Fund; and others tba eco-poetry from Bowery Poetry Club's Bob Holman and Patti Trimble the explosive middle-east percussion of Raquy Danziger Eco-Art slide show and more!
Saturday, November 13Panels:10:30AM to Noon:
An Ecotopian NYC? Gardens and Visionswith David Lutz, executive director of the Neighborhood Open Space CoalitionRebecca Ferguson of the Green Guerrillas andBrian Sahd of the New York Restoration Project;moderated by John Crow of the Brooklyn Bear Community Garden
Communicating Sustainabilitywith Jaimie Cloud, founder of the Sustainability Education Center;Jean Gardner, professor in the Dept. of Architecture at The New School's Parsons School of Design; andGreen Map System founder Wendy Brawer.
Big City Transportationhosted by "E" magazine editor and transportation expert Jim Motavalli;with renowned activist Charles Komanoff (author of The Bicycle Blueprint, Killed By Automobile, and Ending The Oil Age)and Paul S. White, executive director, Transportation Alternatives.
Youth Activism and Eco-Politicswith Sarah Walker of Sustainable Pratt, Pratt Collaboratives and the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG);Irene Shen, Environmental Justice Coordinator of UPROSE;others tba Post Election Analysiswith Michael Tomasky, executive editor of The American Prospect;Marcia Bystryn, executive director of the New York League of Conservation Voters, and others tba;hosted by Anne Hemenway of the National Committee for an Effective Congress (NCEC) and J.P. Harpignies, author of Political Ecosystems
Saturday, 12:30 to 5PM:
On both Saturday and Sunday videotaped plenary addresses from Bioneers 2004 (held October 15-17) will be shown in the recital hall, including:
Terry Tempest Williams
Wanjira Mathai
Amory Lovins
Amy Goodman
John Mohawk
Paul Hawken
Lateefah Simon
LaDonna Redmond
Michael Lerner
Candace Pert
Aqeela Sherrills
Paul Stamets
Jason Clay and
Martha Arguello
Complete biographies of the speakers are available at http://www.bioneers.org/.
Saturday, 1:30 to 3PM:
Protecting Clean Water/Revitalizing the Hudson/Shutting Down Indian Pointwith Carolyn Zolas, chair of the Sierra Club's NYS Watershed Committee and of Clean Water for the Bronx, and on the board of the Croton Watershed Clean Water Coalition (who will also serve as moderator);Lisa Rainwater van Suntum, Riverkeeper's Indian Point outreach coordinator; and Ryan Palmer, Environmental Associate, Hudson River Sloop Clearwater Innovative Urban Eco-Techco-sponsored by the Buckminster Fuller Institute (BFI);hosted by BFI acting executive director Elizabeth Thompson;presentations on:Urban Fish Farming with Martin Schreibman, founder of the Aquatic Research and Environmental Assessment Center, biology professor at Brooklyn College and visionary fish farmer now raising over 3000 tilapia on Flatbush Avenue!;An "off the Grid" City? - with a rep. from Verdant Power-a pioneering energy company deploying an underwater turbine system in the East River; andTools for Planning the Sustainable City with Ben Discoe, founder of the V-Terrain project, an expert in GIS, 3-D visualization tools, and other data mapping technologies.
Globalization and Empire;hosted by New York Open Center co-founder Ralph White andNanette Schorr, coordinator for the Task Force on Law and Meaning;others tba
Linking City and Country: CSAs, Farmers' Markets and Food Justicewith Just Foods' City Farms Manager Kathleen McTigue; Brian Schundler, Americorps Vista/ CSA in NYC Associate, and food activist Bryant Terry ("b-healthy")
A Model of Cross-disciplinary Collaboration in Sustainabilityfeaturing the work of Sustainable Pratt, a pioneering group of Pratt department chairs, professors and students working to build a coordinated sustainability curriculum and to develop "green" projects: a model of how an interdisciplinary group can make a university curriculum and surrounding community more sustainable.Hosted by professors Amy Lesen (biology) and Frank Millero (industrial design);with Caleb Crawford, assistant chair of undergraduate architecture;Dean Zias, a renowned Pratt urban planner with 26 years' experience;student environmental leader Sarah Walker; andDebera Johnson, chair of industrial design
Saturday, 3:30 to 5PM
Voluntary Simplicity and Over-consumptionwith NYC Voluntary Simplicity pioneer Mary Barknecht, andStephan Chenault, long time sustainability, community building, social justice and hunger and homelessness activist, former Chair of the Wildlife and Wilderness and Environmental Justice committees of the NYC Sierra Club, founder of the Coalition for Forests and EcoLobby and chair of the Central Brooklyn Chapter of the Neighborhood Energy Network Animals and the Metro-Global Environmentthe intersection of animal rights, social justice movements and environmentalism; animal advocacy within the context of urban, regional, and international conservation efforts,with Martin Rowe, co-founder of Lantern Books; Mia MacDonald, senior fellow of the World Watch Institute; Catherine Clyne, editor of SATYA magazine; Patrick Kwan, founder of the Student Animal Rights Alliance; and Lawrence Carter-Long, NY Director of In Defense of Animals Learning from NY's Indigenous Cultureswith storyteller-artist-musician and educator Franc Menusan; Evan Pritchard, author of Native New Yorkers and No Word for Time, andRoberto Mucaro Borrero of the Museum of Natural History;others tba
The Nature Network (3:30-4:15)Bill Shore, acting chair of the Nature Network, will describe this new major collaboration of the major environmental institutions of our regionTraffic Calming (4:15-5pm)David Lutz of the Neighborhood Open Space Coalition will discuss why traffic calming is a key strategy for creating a sane, livable and cleaner city.
5:15 PM:Mixer, Film/video screenings
Sunday, November 14thPanels:10:30AM to Noon:
Socially Responsible Entrepreneurshipwith Matthew Bernardo, President of Housing Works Thrift Stores; Laurie Lewis of Patagonia; and Mark Caserta of the eco-store, 3R Living, and Omar Freilla, a founding member of Sustainable South Bronx, Chair of the NYC Environmental Justice Alliance and founder of the new Green Worker Cooperatives, dedicated to bringing worker-owned and eco friendly manufacturing jobs to the South Bronx;moderated by Christina Cobb, founder of the progressive and eco PR firm, Free Agency Environmental Educationwith Mike Zamm, Director of Environmental Education, Council on the Environment of NYC; Barry Weinbrom, Director of After School Activity Programs (ASAP);Brian Johnson of the Prospect Park Audubon Center; andShelley Berlincourt, on board educator for Hudson River Sloop Clearwater Environmental Justice with West Harlem Environmental Action (WEACT) program director Cecil Corbin-Mark;Majora J. Carter, founder and executive director of Sustainable South Bronx;ShaKing Alston, executive director of the Environmental Justice Alliance; andSamara F. Swanston, esq, renowned environmental attorney and activist and state chair of the Sierra Club's Environmental Justice Committee Eco-aware Urban Architecture and Designwith Paul Mankiewicz of the Gaia Institute, a pioneering visionary of sustainable urban design;GreenHomeNYC Executive director Cat Fitzgerald; andarchitect Neil Chambers, executive director of Green Ground Zero, dedicated to making NYC and urban areas worldwide more livable and sustainable;hosted by architect and professor of sustainable design at Parsons, David Bergman The Greening of Cuisine: Sustainable Restaurateuringhosted by Hilary Baum; withLeslie McEachern of Angelica Kitchen;chef, writer and activist Sarah Copeland; andHiram Bonner, director of the Community Food Resource Center:come hear about the transformative effect creative, conscious chefs and restaurateurs can have in influencing positive food trends in the larger society
Sunday, 12:30 to 5PM:
On both Saturday and Sunday videotaped plenary addresses from Bioneers 2004 (held October 15-17) will be shown in the recital hall, including:
Terry Tempest Williams
Wanjira Mathai
Amory Lovins
Amy Goodman
John Mohawk
Paul Hawken
Lateefah Simon
LaDonna Redmond
Michael Lerner
Candace Pert
Aqeela Sherrills
Paul Stamets
Jason Clay and
Martha Arguello
Complete biographies of the speakers are available at http://www.bioneers.org/.
Sunday, 1:30 to 3PM:
Urban Wildlifewith E.J. McAdams, NY Audubon Society;Terri Carta, Manager of Community Partnerships and Programs at the Central Park Conservancy; andSara Hobel of the Urban Park Rangers;moderated by Diana Gilchrist, Eco-Metropolis co-producer
Jobs/Development and the Environmentwith Nancy Anderson of the City Comptroller's office,builder/developer Carlton Brown,Jeremy Reiss, Director of Urban Agenda, a joint project of the NYC Central Labor Council and the Queens College Labor Resource Center, andmoderator Eva Hanhardt of the Municipal Art Society Neighborhood Restorationwith architect and waterfront revival activist Owen Foote of the Gowanus Dredgers;Harry J. Bubbins director of the Downtown Bronx Eco Development Corporation;others tba
Eco-Medicinehosted by J.P. Harpignies, co-editor of Ecological Medicine;with research scientist Cynthia Rosenzweig of the Climate Impacts Group at NASA/Goddard Institute for Space Studies;Suzanne Mattei, New York City Executive for the Sierra Clubothers tba
The Nature of New York "Exploring the Nature of New York" is a groundbreaking new course at CUNY that explores the interconnectivity of cultural, economic and ecological forces within New York and how the city's size, density and wealth of resources affect not just natural life in the area but in the entire region and nation. Ornithologist, researcher and CUNY professor David Rosane (and other speakers tba) will discuss how to acquire ecological literacy about the city we live in and an enhanced awareness of its unique natural heritage.
Sunday, 3:30 to 5PM
Getting Environmental Issues on the NYC Electoral Agenda: the Mayoral Race and Beyond with Craig Wilson, Director of NYC Policy and Advocacy of The NY League of Conservation Voters; Ken Baer, Atlantic Chapter Chairperson, Sierra Club; others tba
Energizing New York: Toward Wiser Energy Choices hosted by solar designer Amelia Amon, co-founder of the design organization O2NY and board member of the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association; Dean Zias, of NYSERDA's (NY State Energy Research and Development Authority) Energy Smart Communities Outreach program; Virali Gokaldas, recycling specialist and Urban Research Fellow at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC); and leading eco-conscious architect Chris Benedict
NY-area Alt Mediafacilitated by long-time activist, WBAI's Deena Kolbert;with Pamela Peeters of Manhattan Neighborhood Network;Tony Riddle of The Media Foundation;and others tba
Art and the Environmentwith world-renowned visionary artist Alexis Rockman;Ecoartspace co-founder Amy Lipton;curator Linda Weintraub, former Professor of Contemporary Art at Oberlin and director of the museum at Bard and author of Art on the Edge and Over: Searching for Art's Meaning in Contemporary Society; andElizabeth Thompson
Bicycle Power in NYCwith moderator Aaron Naparstek, author of Honku: the Zen Antidote to Road Rage, Karen Overton of Recycle a Bicycle, George Bliss of Pedicabs of NY, Matthew Roth of Times Up! Critical Mass; andNoah Budnick, Projects Director for Transportation Alternatives, and its head bicycle advocate
Admission:$10 - Friday night only$25 - single days$50 - entire event$75 - supporting level: your extra dollars will help provide scholarships to low-income activists
Note: attendees will have to bring their lunch or snacks or purchase food and beverages from CUNY's onsite cafeteria vendor or at a local eatery as there will be no conference-provided food.
Groups and institutions affiliated with speakers (partial list):
"E" magazineThe Buckminster Fuller InstituteGreenHomeNYCGreen Ground ZeroGaia InstituteLapis onlineBowery Poetry ClubSmall Planet FundSustainable South BronxWest Harlem Environmental ActionEnvironmental Justice AllianceDowntown Bronx Eco Development CorporationGreenpoint/Williamsburg Watchperson ProjectGowanus DredgersCentral Labor CouncilMunicipal Art SocietyNeighborhood Open Space CoalitionGreen GuerrillasNY Restoration ProjectBrooklyn Bear Community GardenThe Nature NetworkSustainability Education CenterGreen Map SystemWaterwireMetropolitan Waterfront Alliance: The River ProjectRiverkeeperClearwaterClean Water for the Bronx
Croton Watershed Clean Water CoalitionTask Force on Law and MeaningJust FoodHousing WorksPatagonia3R LivingSustainable PrattPratt Industrial Design DepartmentPratt CollaborativesNYPIRGCentral Park ConservancyUrban Park RangersProspect Park Audubon CenterLantern BooksSatya magazineWorldwatch InstituteStudent Animal Rights AllianceIn Defense of AnimalsThe American ProspectThe Nation InstituteSierra ClubVerdant PowerThe V-Terrain ProjectClimate Impacts Group at NASANYSERDAFree AgencyThe Baum ForumAngelica KitchenAquatic Research and Environmental Assessment Center at Brooklyn CollegeTransportation Alternatives
To register contact
Continuing Education & Public Programs, The Graduate Center, CUNY 212 817-8215 or the
NY Open Center 212 219-2527
Monday, November 01, 2004
HH-WH Gazette Digest - November, 2004
Subject: Gazette Digest - November, 2004
Date: 11/1/2004 8:55:50 AM Eastern Standard Time
From: info@westharlemcpo.org
Reply To: 44613-feedback-8@lb.bcentral.com
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HAMILTON HEIGHTS-WH Community Preservation Organization
November 2, Election Day
It doesn’t do any good to think about it, or to talk about it,
You Have To Do Something About It
Get Out the Vote and Be Counted!
VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE
Go to www.votercall.org. You can sign up to call new voters and encourage them to go to the polls on Tuesday, November 2nd. The site explains it all. You can do as much or as little as you would like
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197-a Plan Unanimously Approved at Community Board 9
General Board Meeting
On Thursday, October 19th, Board members unanimously approved its 197-plan and its resubmission to the New York City Department of City Planning for consideration as a Land Use application. The vote of approval was met with applause from board members and public members followed by testimonies of thanks to Pat Jones and Walter South, co-chairs of the 197-a plan committee, and other board members who had worked on the initial draft in 1991. The most recent process of developing a comprehensive community plan was guided by a team from Pratt Institute Center for Community and Environmental Development led by Ron Schiffman and Mercedes Narcisco.
more >>>
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Tree Guards and Decorative Period Lamposts for Amsterdam Avenue
Update on the Hamilton Heights West Harlem Community Preservation Organization’s (“CPO”) Commercial Revitalization/Streetscape Improvement Initiative.
The CPO has received funding from Councilmember Robert Jackson for streetscape improvement, specifically, trees and tree guards on Amsterdam, between W 140 and W 144th Streets/ Hamilton Place and replanting Johnny Hartman Plaza park median. Fortunately, we had numerous trees planted in this area in 1998, so with the exception of adding only a few new trees, most of the funding will be used for fabrication and installation of decorative tree guards. The Parks Department will administer funds and implement the project .
more >>>
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Green Market for Lower Washington Heights
W. 155th Street, between Broadway and Riverside Drive
Residents of Hamilton Heights and lower Washington Heights won’t have to travel very far next spring for fresh vegetables , fruits and other farm products. In response to a petition consisting signatures of 275 community residents, the Council on the Environment , Inc. will establish a green market on West 155th between Broadway and Riverside Drive beginning June of next year. The 155th Street Greenmarket will operate on Saturdays between the hours of 8am and 4pm and will be opened through early December. Twelve regional farmers will participate, supported the first year by a market manager and a security guard. Both Community Boards 9 and 12 passed resolutions in support of this project.
more >>>
Hamilton Heights - West Harlem
(212) 281-4442 Tel.
info@westharlemcpo.org
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From: info@westharlemcpo.org
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HAMILTON HEIGHTS-WH Community Preservation Organization
November 2, Election Day
It doesn’t do any good to think about it, or to talk about it,
You Have To Do Something About It
Get Out the Vote and Be Counted!
VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE
Go to www.votercall.org. You can sign up to call new voters and encourage them to go to the polls on Tuesday, November 2nd. The site explains it all. You can do as much or as little as you would like
………………………………………………………………………………………………………
197-a Plan Unanimously Approved at Community Board 9
General Board Meeting
On Thursday, October 19th, Board members unanimously approved its 197-plan and its resubmission to the New York City Department of City Planning for consideration as a Land Use application. The vote of approval was met with applause from board members and public members followed by testimonies of thanks to Pat Jones and Walter South, co-chairs of the 197-a plan committee, and other board members who had worked on the initial draft in 1991. The most recent process of developing a comprehensive community plan was guided by a team from Pratt Institute Center for Community and Environmental Development led by Ron Schiffman and Mercedes Narcisco.
more >>>
............................................................................................................................................................
Tree Guards and Decorative Period Lamposts for Amsterdam Avenue
Update on the Hamilton Heights West Harlem Community Preservation Organization’s (“CPO”) Commercial Revitalization/Streetscape Improvement Initiative.
The CPO has received funding from Councilmember Robert Jackson for streetscape improvement, specifically, trees and tree guards on Amsterdam, between W 140 and W 144th Streets/ Hamilton Place and replanting Johnny Hartman Plaza park median. Fortunately, we had numerous trees planted in this area in 1998, so with the exception of adding only a few new trees, most of the funding will be used for fabrication and installation of decorative tree guards. The Parks Department will administer funds and implement the project .
more >>>
............................................................................................................................................................
Green Market for Lower Washington Heights
W. 155th Street, between Broadway and Riverside Drive
Residents of Hamilton Heights and lower Washington Heights won’t have to travel very far next spring for fresh vegetables , fruits and other farm products. In response to a petition consisting signatures of 275 community residents, the Council on the Environment , Inc. will establish a green market on West 155th between Broadway and Riverside Drive beginning June of next year. The 155th Street Greenmarket will operate on Saturdays between the hours of 8am and 4pm and will be opened through early December. Twelve regional farmers will participate, supported the first year by a market manager and a security guard. Both Community Boards 9 and 12 passed resolutions in support of this project.
more >>>
Hamilton Heights - West Harlem
(212) 281-4442 Tel.
info@westharlemcpo.org
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Saturday, October 30, 2004
Democracy Plaza at Rockefeller Plaza
In a message dated 10/30/2004 3:51:28 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
hh-westharlemcpo@msn.com writes:
Subject: Democracy Plaza at Rockefeller Plaza
This is an exhibit not to be missed especially by young people. It's interesting, fun, educational way to introduce the electoral process. The Scholastic's Democracy for Kids tent is a must visit if you don't have the time for the entire exhibit. Log on to www.scholastic.com/democracyplaza
for a full schedule of events.
The exhibit closes on November 5 and is open to the public daily 11:00am - 7:00pm.
October 20, 2004
Democracy Reigns on the Plaza
If you work at 30 Rock, you may have noticed "Democracy Plaza" in Rockefeller Center when you arrived at work this morning. Today at 11 a.m. marks the official opening of the "Plaza," which will include the unveiling of one of the original copies of the Declaration of Independence.
"Democracy Plaza" is a superb exhibition of historical artifacts, photo and video displays, and themed elements that speak to America's unique tradition of citizenship, democracy and electoral politics. It will also be used as the backdrop for many NBC News platforms leading up to and through Election Day.
This timely display is free to the public and runs from Wednesday, October 20 through Friday, November 5, open daily from 9 a.m. - 7 p.m. This is an experience you won't want to miss.
For additional tri-state activities and programs, click here. http://www.nbcuni.com/
hh-westharlemcpo@msn.com writes:
Subject: Democracy Plaza at Rockefeller Plaza
This is an exhibit not to be missed especially by young people. It's interesting, fun, educational way to introduce the electoral process. The Scholastic's Democracy for Kids tent is a must visit if you don't have the time for the entire exhibit. Log on to www.scholastic.com/democracyplaza
for a full schedule of events.
The exhibit closes on November 5 and is open to the public daily 11:00am - 7:00pm.
October 20, 2004
Democracy Reigns on the Plaza
If you work at 30 Rock, you may have noticed "Democracy Plaza" in Rockefeller Center when you arrived at work this morning. Today at 11 a.m. marks the official opening of the "Plaza," which will include the unveiling of one of the original copies of the Declaration of Independence.
"Democracy Plaza" is a superb exhibition of historical artifacts, photo and video displays, and themed elements that speak to America's unique tradition of citizenship, democracy and electoral politics. It will also be used as the backdrop for many NBC News platforms leading up to and through Election Day.
This timely display is free to the public and runs from Wednesday, October 20 through Friday, November 5, open daily from 9 a.m. - 7 p.m. This is an experience you won't want to miss.
For additional tri-state activities and programs, click here. http://www.nbcuni.com/
Friday, October 29, 2004
CB9M Manhattanville Rezoning Task Force
CB9 MANHATTANVILLE REZONING TASK FORCE
MISSION STATEMENT
· Promote the establishment of a special purpose zoning district in Manhattanville (1) that will guide the real estate market to create a balance of a variety of uses including production/light manufacturing/storage/warehousing, retail, affordable housing, and community facilities while ensuring that the district assets, architecture, and character of Manhattanville are maintained;
· Serve as the umbrella organization for the Community Board, City agencies, local residents and community-based organizations directly and indirectly affected by any rezoning in Manhattanville;
· Develop and negotiate community benefit agreement(s) with relevant developers in Manhattanville for the benefit of Community Board 9 residents, businesses, and property owners;
· Coordinate the access to and use of financial, technical assistance, consultants and pro-bono resources and assets available for the purposes of achieving the above-stated goals;
· Liaise with elected officials and City, State and Federal government agencies, as may be required, for the purposes of achieving the above-stated goals.
(1) Manhattanville is bounded by LaSalle Street to the south and 135th Street to the north; Hudson River to the west and St. Nicholas Terrace to the east
MISSION STATEMENT
· Promote the establishment of a special purpose zoning district in Manhattanville (1) that will guide the real estate market to create a balance of a variety of uses including production/light manufacturing/storage/warehousing, retail, affordable housing, and community facilities while ensuring that the district assets, architecture, and character of Manhattanville are maintained;
· Serve as the umbrella organization for the Community Board, City agencies, local residents and community-based organizations directly and indirectly affected by any rezoning in Manhattanville;
· Develop and negotiate community benefit agreement(s) with relevant developers in Manhattanville for the benefit of Community Board 9 residents, businesses, and property owners;
· Coordinate the access to and use of financial, technical assistance, consultants and pro-bono resources and assets available for the purposes of achieving the above-stated goals;
· Liaise with elected officials and City, State and Federal government agencies, as may be required, for the purposes of achieving the above-stated goals.
(1) Manhattanville is bounded by LaSalle Street to the south and 135th Street to the north; Hudson River to the west and St. Nicholas Terrace to the east
CB9M - 197-a Plan (full text & attachments)
For the convenience of the citizens of CB9M
Click here: PICCED: Manhattan-CB9
http://www.picced.org/cp-cb9.php
Community Planning Manhattan-CB9
Manhattan Community Board 9 197-a Plan
Since early 2003, PICCED has been working closely with Community Board 9's 197-a planning committee to craft a comprehensive set of recommendations to guide the future development of three neighborhoods in northern Manhattan: Morningside Heights, Manhattanville, and Hamilton Heights. The draft recommendations cover issues around affordable housing, economic development, traffic, transportation, land use, and zoning. PICCED held public forums in each of the neighborhoods to present the recommendations and solicit feedback from the community at large. After revising the recommendations based on this public review, PICCED submitted the plan to the Community Board and it was unanimously approved. PICCED is now in the process of submitting the plan to the city planning commission.
The Community Board 9 197-a Plan documents are in Adobe Acrobat format
Section Description
Cover Page
http://www.picced.org/pubs/CB9/0-cover.pdf
Acknowledgements
http://www.picced.org/pubs/CB9/1-acknowledge.pdf
Table of Contents
http://www.picced.org/pubs/CB9/2-contents.pdf
Introduction and Executive Summary
http://www.picced.org/pubs/CB9/3-intro.pdf
Existing Conditions
http://www.picced.org/pubs/CB9/4-existconditions.pdf
Recommendations
http://www.picced.org/pubs/CB9/5-recommendations.pdf
Illustrations pages 75-80
http://www.picced.org/pubs/CB9/6-illus1.pdf
Illustrations pages 81-87
http://www.picced.org/pubs/CB9/7-illus2.pdf
Illustrations pages 88-93
http://www.picced.org/pubs/CB9/8-illus3.pdf
Glossary
http://www.picced.org/pubs/CB9/9-glossary.pdf
Appendices Cover Page
http://www.picced.org/pubs/CB9/10-appendicescover.pdf
Appendix 1 Introduction
http://www.picced.org/pubs/CB9/11-appendixintro.pdf
Appendix 1-B Community Feedback
http://www.picced.org/pubs/CB9/12-appendix1-b.pdf
Appendix A Population Characteristics
http://www.picced.org/pubs/CB9/13-appendix-a.pdf
Appendix B Land Use & Zoning
http://www.picced.org/pubs/CB9/14-appendix-b.pdf
Appendix C Urban Design, Open Space & Historic Preservation
http://www.picced.org/pubs/CB9/15-appendix-c.pdf
Appendix D Transportation & Transit
http://www.picced.org/pubs/CB9/16-appendix-d.pdf
Appendix E Economic Development
http://www.picced.org/pubs/CB9/17-appendix-e.pdf
Appendix F Environmental Protection & Sustainability
http://www.picced.org/pubs/CB9/18-appendix-f.pdf
Appendix G Housing
http://www.picced.org/pubs/CB9/19-appendix-g.pdf
Appendix G-2 Community Board 9 Manhattan Housing Distribution Policy
http://www.picced.org/pubs/CB9/20-appendix-g2.pdf
Appendix G-3 Existing Affordable Housing Programs
http://www.picced.org/pubs/CB9/21-appendix-g3.pdf
Appendix H-cover Community Facilities
http://www.picced.org/pubs/CB9/22-appendix-h.pdf
Appendix H-1 Educational Facilities
http://www.picced.org/pubs/CB9/23-appendix-h1.pdf
Click here: PICCED: Manhattan-CB9
http://www.picced.org/cp-cb9.php
Community Planning Manhattan-CB9
Manhattan Community Board 9 197-a Plan
Since early 2003, PICCED has been working closely with Community Board 9's 197-a planning committee to craft a comprehensive set of recommendations to guide the future development of three neighborhoods in northern Manhattan: Morningside Heights, Manhattanville, and Hamilton Heights. The draft recommendations cover issues around affordable housing, economic development, traffic, transportation, land use, and zoning. PICCED held public forums in each of the neighborhoods to present the recommendations and solicit feedback from the community at large. After revising the recommendations based on this public review, PICCED submitted the plan to the Community Board and it was unanimously approved. PICCED is now in the process of submitting the plan to the city planning commission.
The Community Board 9 197-a Plan documents are in Adobe Acrobat format
Section Description
Cover Page
http://www.picced.org/pubs/CB9/0-cover.pdf
Acknowledgements
http://www.picced.org/pubs/CB9/1-acknowledge.pdf
Table of Contents
http://www.picced.org/pubs/CB9/2-contents.pdf
Introduction and Executive Summary
http://www.picced.org/pubs/CB9/3-intro.pdf
Existing Conditions
http://www.picced.org/pubs/CB9/4-existconditions.pdf
Recommendations
http://www.picced.org/pubs/CB9/5-recommendations.pdf
Illustrations pages 75-80
http://www.picced.org/pubs/CB9/6-illus1.pdf
Illustrations pages 81-87
http://www.picced.org/pubs/CB9/7-illus2.pdf
Illustrations pages 88-93
http://www.picced.org/pubs/CB9/8-illus3.pdf
Glossary
http://www.picced.org/pubs/CB9/9-glossary.pdf
Appendices Cover Page
http://www.picced.org/pubs/CB9/10-appendicescover.pdf
Appendix 1 Introduction
http://www.picced.org/pubs/CB9/11-appendixintro.pdf
Appendix 1-B Community Feedback
http://www.picced.org/pubs/CB9/12-appendix1-b.pdf
Appendix A Population Characteristics
http://www.picced.org/pubs/CB9/13-appendix-a.pdf
Appendix B Land Use & Zoning
http://www.picced.org/pubs/CB9/14-appendix-b.pdf
Appendix C Urban Design, Open Space & Historic Preservation
http://www.picced.org/pubs/CB9/15-appendix-c.pdf
Appendix D Transportation & Transit
http://www.picced.org/pubs/CB9/16-appendix-d.pdf
Appendix E Economic Development
http://www.picced.org/pubs/CB9/17-appendix-e.pdf
Appendix F Environmental Protection & Sustainability
http://www.picced.org/pubs/CB9/18-appendix-f.pdf
Appendix G Housing
http://www.picced.org/pubs/CB9/19-appendix-g.pdf
Appendix G-2 Community Board 9 Manhattan Housing Distribution Policy
http://www.picced.org/pubs/CB9/20-appendix-g2.pdf
Appendix G-3 Existing Affordable Housing Programs
http://www.picced.org/pubs/CB9/21-appendix-g3.pdf
Appendix H-cover Community Facilities
http://www.picced.org/pubs/CB9/22-appendix-h.pdf
Appendix H-1 Educational Facilities
http://www.picced.org/pubs/CB9/23-appendix-h1.pdf
NYMTC Opens New Office on Nov. 18th
Subject: Information on NYMTC
Date: 10/29/2004 7:36:29 AM Eastern Daylight Time
From: SBaileymcc
To: Reysmont
NYMTC Opens New Offices on Nov 18th
by Gerry Bogacz
The Grand Opening of NYMTC's new offices on the 22nd floor at 199 Water Street in Lower Manhattan will take place on November 18th. NYMTC's principals have been invited to participate in the Grand Opening ceremony, scheduled to begin at 11:30 am. During the ceremony, NYMTC's new conference center will be dedicated to the memories of Ignatius Adanga, Charles Lesperance and See Wong Shum, the staff members killed in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. Additionally, NYMTC will announce its September 11th Memorial Program for Regional Transportation Planning, intended to be a living memorial to our three colleagues. The Memorial Program will set aside funding for publicly solicited transportation planning activities throughout the region, as well as assisting students in transportation planning and computer-related studies. NYMTC's offices will be open to the public from 11 am to 4 pm on November 18th. A meeting of the Program, Finance and Administration Committee will follow the ceremony at 1:15 pm.
Contact
Colleen Brathwaite
212.383.7241
The New York Metropolitan Transportation Council (NYMTC) provides a collaborative planning forum to address transportation-related issues from a regional perspective and plans and makes decisions on the use of federal transportation funds. The NYMTC region includes New York City, Long Island and the lower Hudson Valley. It encompasses an area of 2,440 square miles and a population of 11.3 million, approximately 65% of New York State's population. To respond to local needs, NYMTC is comprised of three Transportation Coordinating Committees (TCC): New York City TCC, Mid-Hudson South TCC and Nassau/Suffolk TCC. These committees recommend sub-regional transportation priorities and provide opportunities for the private sector, general public, local government and interested stakeholders to become involved in the planning process on a more local level.
Date: 10/29/2004 7:36:29 AM Eastern Daylight Time
From: SBaileymcc
To: Reysmont
NYMTC Opens New Offices on Nov 18th
by Gerry Bogacz
The Grand Opening of NYMTC's new offices on the 22nd floor at 199 Water Street in Lower Manhattan will take place on November 18th. NYMTC's principals have been invited to participate in the Grand Opening ceremony, scheduled to begin at 11:30 am. During the ceremony, NYMTC's new conference center will be dedicated to the memories of Ignatius Adanga, Charles Lesperance and See Wong Shum, the staff members killed in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. Additionally, NYMTC will announce its September 11th Memorial Program for Regional Transportation Planning, intended to be a living memorial to our three colleagues. The Memorial Program will set aside funding for publicly solicited transportation planning activities throughout the region, as well as assisting students in transportation planning and computer-related studies. NYMTC's offices will be open to the public from 11 am to 4 pm on November 18th. A meeting of the Program, Finance and Administration Committee will follow the ceremony at 1:15 pm.
Contact
Colleen Brathwaite
212.383.7241
The New York Metropolitan Transportation Council (NYMTC) provides a collaborative planning forum to address transportation-related issues from a regional perspective and plans and makes decisions on the use of federal transportation funds. The NYMTC region includes New York City, Long Island and the lower Hudson Valley. It encompasses an area of 2,440 square miles and a population of 11.3 million, approximately 65% of New York State's population. To respond to local needs, NYMTC is comprised of three Transportation Coordinating Committees (TCC): New York City TCC, Mid-Hudson South TCC and Nassau/Suffolk TCC. These committees recommend sub-regional transportation priorities and provide opportunities for the private sector, general public, local government and interested stakeholders to become involved in the planning process on a more local level.
NYC Calendar week of 11/01/2004 - 11/05/2004
Subject: RE:Council Calendar
Date: 10/29/2004 4:03:15 AM Eastern Daylight Time
From: webmaster@council.nyc.ny.us
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New York Council Calendar for the week of 11/01/2004 to 11/05/2004:
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DATE: Tuesday, November 02, 2004
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COMMITTEE: , Chairperson(s):
Council Chambers - City Hall
DETAILS:
ELECTION DAY OBSERVED
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DATE: Wednesday, November 03, 2004
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COMMITTEE: Zoning & Franchises, Chairperson(s):Tony Avella
TIME: 9:30 AM LOCATION: Committee Room - City Hall
DETAILS: See Land Use Calendar Available Thursday, October 28, 2004, Room 5 City Hall
COMMITTEE: Education, Chairperson(s):Eva S. Moskowitz
TIME: 10:00 AM LOCATION: Council Chambers - City Hall
DETAILS:
Oversight - Becoming a Teacher - Reforming Human Resources
COMMITTEE: DEFERRED* Landmarks, Public Siting & Maritime Uses, Chairperson(s):Simcha Felder
TIME: 11:00 AM LOCATION: Committee Room - City Hall
DETAILS: See Land Use Calendar Available Thursday October 28, 2004, Room 5 City Hall
COMMITTEE: Planning, Dispositions & Concessions, Chairperson(s):Miguel Martinez
TIME: 1:00 PM LOCATION: Committee Room - City Hall
DETAILS: See Land Use Calendar Available Thursday October 28, 2004, Room 5 City Hall
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DATE: Thursday, November 04, 2004
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COMMITTEE: Land Use, Chairperson(s):Melinda R. Katz
TIME: 10:00 AM LOCATION: Committee Room - City Hall
DETAILS: All items reported out of the subcommittees
AND SUCH OTHER BUSINESS AS MAY BE NECESSARY
COMMITTEE: Transportation, Chairperson(s):John C. Liu
TIME: 10:00 AM LOCATION: Council Chambers - City Hall
DETAILS:
Oversight - The status of the announced transfer of New York City's subsidized private bus lines to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
COMMITTEE: Environmental Protection, Chairperson(s):James F. Gennaro
TIME: 1:00 PM LOCATION: Council Chambers - City Hall
DETAILS:
Oversight - Status of the City's brownfields program
COMMITTEE: Waterfronts, Chairperson(s):David Yassky
TIME: 1:00 PM LOCATION: Committee Room - City Hall
DETAILS:
Oversight - Enforcing Illegal Discharges into New York's Waterways
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DATE: Friday, November 05, 2004
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COMMITTEE: Technology in Government, Chairperson(s):Gale A. Brewer
TIME: 10:00 AM LOCATION: Committee Room - City Hall
DETAILS:
Int. 378 - By Council Members Brewer, Clarke, Fidler, Gennaro, Gentile, Gerson, Koppell, Liu, Lopez, Nelson, Quinn, Sanders, Sears, Weprin and Jackson - A Local Law - to amend the New York City Charter, in relation to the energy efficient use of City office equipment.
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Date: 10/29/2004 4:03:15 AM Eastern Daylight Time
From: webmaster@council.nyc.ny.us
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New York Council Calendar for the week of 11/01/2004 to 11/05/2004:
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DATE: Tuesday, November 02, 2004
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COMMITTEE: , Chairperson(s):
Council Chambers - City Hall
DETAILS:
ELECTION DAY OBSERVED
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DATE: Wednesday, November 03, 2004
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COMMITTEE: Zoning & Franchises, Chairperson(s):Tony Avella
TIME: 9:30 AM LOCATION: Committee Room - City Hall
DETAILS: See Land Use Calendar Available Thursday, October 28, 2004, Room 5 City Hall
COMMITTEE: Education, Chairperson(s):Eva S. Moskowitz
TIME: 10:00 AM LOCATION: Council Chambers - City Hall
DETAILS:
Oversight - Becoming a Teacher - Reforming Human Resources
COMMITTEE: DEFERRED* Landmarks, Public Siting & Maritime Uses, Chairperson(s):Simcha Felder
TIME: 11:00 AM LOCATION: Committee Room - City Hall
DETAILS: See Land Use Calendar Available Thursday October 28, 2004, Room 5 City Hall
COMMITTEE: Planning, Dispositions & Concessions, Chairperson(s):Miguel Martinez
TIME: 1:00 PM LOCATION: Committee Room - City Hall
DETAILS: See Land Use Calendar Available Thursday October 28, 2004, Room 5 City Hall
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DATE: Thursday, November 04, 2004
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COMMITTEE: Land Use, Chairperson(s):Melinda R. Katz
TIME: 10:00 AM LOCATION: Committee Room - City Hall
DETAILS: All items reported out of the subcommittees
AND SUCH OTHER BUSINESS AS MAY BE NECESSARY
COMMITTEE: Transportation, Chairperson(s):John C. Liu
TIME: 10:00 AM LOCATION: Council Chambers - City Hall
DETAILS:
Oversight - The status of the announced transfer of New York City's subsidized private bus lines to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
COMMITTEE: Environmental Protection, Chairperson(s):James F. Gennaro
TIME: 1:00 PM LOCATION: Council Chambers - City Hall
DETAILS:
Oversight - Status of the City's brownfields program
COMMITTEE: Waterfronts, Chairperson(s):David Yassky
TIME: 1:00 PM LOCATION: Committee Room - City Hall
DETAILS:
Oversight - Enforcing Illegal Discharges into New York's Waterways
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DATE: Friday, November 05, 2004
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COMMITTEE: Technology in Government, Chairperson(s):Gale A. Brewer
TIME: 10:00 AM LOCATION: Committee Room - City Hall
DETAILS:
Int. 378 - By Council Members Brewer, Clarke, Fidler, Gennaro, Gentile, Gerson, Koppell, Liu, Lopez, Nelson, Quinn, Sanders, Sears, Weprin and Jackson - A Local Law - to amend the New York City Charter, in relation to the energy efficient use of City office equipment.
*Selected Commitees are not listed.
This is an automated mailer, so please confirm these dates by checking the Hearings and Meetings Calendar on our website, for the schedule may change at the last minute. Thank you.
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Wednesday, October 27, 2004
Riverside Park Drinking Fountains
Here is an interesting exchange with Parks Commissioner and a community resident that I want to share with the CB9M community - JRM
From: "Miriam Duhan"
To: "Adrian Benepe"
Cc:, "Riverside Park Fund" , "Teresa Elwert"
Subject: Riverside Park drinking fountains
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 21:48:31 -0400
Message-ID: <002001c4bafd$e5a451a0$0ffe6c42@tkjdell>
Mr. Benepe:
Now that I'm the patron saint of Riverside Drive drinking fountains, I'm
noticing the ones that don't work. There's one on the promenade at 109th
Street that doesn't work. It's only one block away from a children's
playground at 110th Street which has no water. Of course all the fountains
are now turned off for the winter, but could it go on your list for spring?
Miriam Duhan
Board Member, 104th Street Block Association
-----Original Message-----
From: Miriam Duhan [mailto:mduhan@nyc.rr.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 8:02 PM
To: Adrian Benepe
Cc: Reysmotn@aol.com; Riverside Park Fund; Teresa Elwert
Subject: RE: Riverside Park drinking fountains
Dear Mr. Benepe
I returned home last night after a few weeks away and went for a run before
I even read my email. I was delighted to drink from both the fountain in
Sakura Park and the fountain at 119th Street. I was also glad to see that
the leak at the fountain in Sakura Park had been repaired. Thank you also
for your email. It's a pleasure to see our park so well cared for. I only
regret that it took me so long to bring the problem to your attention. I'll
be more prompt next time.
Sincerely
Miriam Duhan
-----Original Message-----
From: Adrian Benepe [mailto:commissioner@parks.nyc.gov]
Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 1:46 PM
To: mduhan@nyc.rr.com
Subject: Riverside Park drinking fountains
Dear Mrs. Duhan:
Thank you for your email regarding the Riverside Park drinking
fountains.
As a regular runner in Riverside Park, I share your sentiment and have
asked our staff to address this matter immediately. As you may have
noticed, the drinking fountain in Sakura Park has been repaired. We
began work on the one at 119th street earlier this month. We're moving
it slightly to avoid the likelihood that it will again be damaged.
Incidentally, we just repaired a broken fountain at 86th Street.
We appreciate your bringing this to our attention, and look forward to
our continued partnership with the 104th Street Block Association.
Sincerely,
Adrian Benepe
From: "Miriam Duhan"
To: "Adrian Benepe"
Cc:
Subject: Riverside Park drinking fountains
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 21:48:31 -0400
Message-ID: <002001c4bafd$e5a451a0$0ffe6c42@tkjdell>
Mr. Benepe:
Now that I'm the patron saint of Riverside Drive drinking fountains, I'm
noticing the ones that don't work. There's one on the promenade at 109th
Street that doesn't work. It's only one block away from a children's
playground at 110th Street which has no water. Of course all the fountains
are now turned off for the winter, but could it go on your list for spring?
Miriam Duhan
Board Member, 104th Street Block Association
-----Original Message-----
From: Miriam Duhan [mailto:mduhan@nyc.rr.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 8:02 PM
To: Adrian Benepe
Cc: Reysmotn@aol.com; Riverside Park Fund; Teresa Elwert
Subject: RE: Riverside Park drinking fountains
Dear Mr. Benepe
I returned home last night after a few weeks away and went for a run before
I even read my email. I was delighted to drink from both the fountain in
Sakura Park and the fountain at 119th Street. I was also glad to see that
the leak at the fountain in Sakura Park had been repaired. Thank you also
for your email. It's a pleasure to see our park so well cared for. I only
regret that it took me so long to bring the problem to your attention. I'll
be more prompt next time.
Sincerely
Miriam Duhan
-----Original Message-----
From: Adrian Benepe [mailto:commissioner@parks.nyc.gov]
Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 1:46 PM
To: mduhan@nyc.rr.com
Subject: Riverside Park drinking fountains
Dear Mrs. Duhan:
Thank you for your email regarding the Riverside Park drinking
fountains.
As a regular runner in Riverside Park, I share your sentiment and have
asked our staff to address this matter immediately. As you may have
noticed, the drinking fountain in Sakura Park has been repaired. We
began work on the one at 119th street earlier this month. We're moving
it slightly to avoid the likelihood that it will again be damaged.
Incidentally, we just repaired a broken fountain at 86th Street.
We appreciate your bringing this to our attention, and look forward to
our continued partnership with the 104th Street Block Association.
Sincerely,
Adrian Benepe
Riverside Park Drinking Fountains
Here is an interesting exchange with Parks Commissioner and a community resident that I want to share with the CB9M community - JRM
From: "Miriam Duhan"
To: "Adrian Benepe"
Cc:, "Riverside Park Fund" ,
"Teresa Elwert"
Subject: Riverside Park drinking fountains
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 21:48:31 -0400
Message-ID: <002001c4bafd$e5a451a0$0ffe6c42@tkjdell>
Mr. Benepe:
Now that I'm the patron saint of Riverside Drive drinking fountains, I'm
noticing the ones that don't work. There's one on the promenade at 109th
Street that doesn't work. It's only one block away from a children's
playground at 110th Street which has no water. Of course all the fountains
are now turned off for the winter, but could it go on your list for spring?
Miriam Duhan
Board Member, 104th Street Block Association
-----Original Message-----
From: Miriam Duhan [mailto:mduhan@nyc.rr.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 8:02 PM
To: Adrian Benepe
Cc: Reysmotn@aol.com; Riverside Park Fund; Teresa Elwert
Subject: RE: Riverside Park drinking fountains
Dear Mr. Benepe
I returned home last night after a few weeks away and went for a run before
I even read my email. I was delighted to drink from both the fountain in
Sakura Park and the fountain at 119th Street. I was also glad to see that
the leak at the fountain in Sakura Park had been repaired. Thank you also
for your email. It's a pleasure to see our park so well cared for. I only
regret that it took me so long to bring the problem to your attention. I'll
be more prompt next time.
Sincerely
Miriam Duhan
-----Original Message-----
From: Adrian Benepe [mailto:commissioner@parks.nyc.gov]
Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 1:46 PM
To: mduhan@nyc.rr.com
Subject: Riverside Park drinking fountains
Dear Mrs. Duhan:
Thank you for your email regarding the Riverside Park drinking
fountains.
As a regular runner in Riverside Park, I share your sentiment and have
asked our staff to address this matter immediately. As you may have
noticed, the drinking fountain in Sakura Park has been repaired. We
began work on the one at 119th street earlier this month. We're moving
it slightly to avoid the likelihood that it will again be damaged.
Incidentally, we just repaired a broken fountain at 86th Street.
We appreciate your bringing this to our attention, and look forward to
our continued partnership with the 104th Street Block Association.
Sincerely,
Adrian Benepe
From: "Miriam Duhan"
To: "Adrian Benepe"
Cc:
"Teresa Elwert"
Subject: Riverside Park drinking fountains
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 21:48:31 -0400
Message-ID: <002001c4bafd$e5a451a0$0ffe6c42@tkjdell>
Mr. Benepe:
Now that I'm the patron saint of Riverside Drive drinking fountains, I'm
noticing the ones that don't work. There's one on the promenade at 109th
Street that doesn't work. It's only one block away from a children's
playground at 110th Street which has no water. Of course all the fountains
are now turned off for the winter, but could it go on your list for spring?
Miriam Duhan
Board Member, 104th Street Block Association
-----Original Message-----
From: Miriam Duhan [mailto:mduhan@nyc.rr.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 8:02 PM
To: Adrian Benepe
Cc: Reysmotn@aol.com; Riverside Park Fund; Teresa Elwert
Subject: RE: Riverside Park drinking fountains
Dear Mr. Benepe
I returned home last night after a few weeks away and went for a run before
I even read my email. I was delighted to drink from both the fountain in
Sakura Park and the fountain at 119th Street. I was also glad to see that
the leak at the fountain in Sakura Park had been repaired. Thank you also
for your email. It's a pleasure to see our park so well cared for. I only
regret that it took me so long to bring the problem to your attention. I'll
be more prompt next time.
Sincerely
Miriam Duhan
-----Original Message-----
From: Adrian Benepe [mailto:commissioner@parks.nyc.gov]
Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 1:46 PM
To: mduhan@nyc.rr.com
Subject: Riverside Park drinking fountains
Dear Mrs. Duhan:
Thank you for your email regarding the Riverside Park drinking
fountains.
As a regular runner in Riverside Park, I share your sentiment and have
asked our staff to address this matter immediately. As you may have
noticed, the drinking fountain in Sakura Park has been repaired. We
began work on the one at 119th street earlier this month. We're moving
it slightly to avoid the likelihood that it will again be damaged.
Incidentally, we just repaired a broken fountain at 86th Street.
We appreciate your bringing this to our attention, and look forward to
our continued partnership with the 104th Street Block Association.
Sincerely,
Adrian Benepe
Monday, October 25, 2004
Eco-Metropolis 2004: Toward a Green, Just, Sustainable Greater NYC
Eco-Metropolis 2004: Toward a Green, Just, Sustainable Greater NYC
A co-production of: NY Open Center Continuing Education & Public Programs,
The Graduate Center, CUNY & Bioneers Conference
Where: CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Ave, at 34th St
When: November 12th – 14th, 2004
Come discover and celebrate our city and region's wildly creative and diverse eco-activist communities from up the Hudson, to the South Bronx, to Harlem, down to the Lower East Side, from Greenpoint to Sunset Park, from the Gowanus Canal and Newton Creek, to Jamaica Bay and the Meadowlands; from environmental justice, water, air, food and bicycle activists to visionary "green" architects, designers, urban planners, entrepreneurs, scientists, artists, engineers, educators and labor leaders.
The ideas, initiatives and energy to make our city and region greener, cleaner, saner, fairer, freer and more joyous are here now. Come help make it happen!
Friday, November 12th, 7pm
Plenary Celebration:
Talks by Anna Lappé and others tba, Native American music, the explosive Middle Eastern percussion of Raquy Danziger, poets including the Bowery Poetry Club's Bob Holman, and more.
$10 (or free with full conference ticket)
Saturday and Sunday, November 13th and 14th, 10:30am to 5pm
- Workshops and Panels with leading figures from across the spectrum of the NY eco universe
- Mixer/Networking party-Saturday at 5pm.
- Extraordinary talks from renowned eco-legends from Bioneers 04 on tape delay
Cost: Entire Event: $50 (or $75-eco-hero rate; your extra dollars support scholarships)
Single Day: $25
For complete, regularly updated schedule information and presenter biographies, see
our website: www.opencenter.org/Eco
A co-production of: NY Open Center Continuing Education & Public Programs,
The Graduate Center, CUNY & Bioneers Conference
Where: CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Ave, at 34th St
When: November 12th – 14th, 2004
Come discover and celebrate our city and region's wildly creative and diverse eco-activist communities from up the Hudson, to the South Bronx, to Harlem, down to the Lower East Side, from Greenpoint to Sunset Park, from the Gowanus Canal and Newton Creek, to Jamaica Bay and the Meadowlands; from environmental justice, water, air, food and bicycle activists to visionary "green" architects, designers, urban planners, entrepreneurs, scientists, artists, engineers, educators and labor leaders.
The ideas, initiatives and energy to make our city and region greener, cleaner, saner, fairer, freer and more joyous are here now. Come help make it happen!
Friday, November 12th, 7pm
Plenary Celebration:
Talks by Anna Lappé and others tba, Native American music, the explosive Middle Eastern percussion of Raquy Danziger, poets including the Bowery Poetry Club's Bob Holman, and more.
$10 (or free with full conference ticket)
Saturday and Sunday, November 13th and 14th, 10:30am to 5pm
- Workshops and Panels with leading figures from across the spectrum of the NY eco universe
- Mixer/Networking party-Saturday at 5pm.
- Extraordinary talks from renowned eco-legends from Bioneers 04 on tape delay
Cost: Entire Event: $50 (or $75-eco-hero rate; your extra dollars support scholarships)
Single Day: $25
For complete, regularly updated schedule information and presenter biographies, see
our website: www.opencenter.org/Eco
Forum This Monday 25Oct04
Subject: Forum This Monday
Date: 10/25/2004 12:31:04 AM Eastern Daylight Time
From: hh-westharlemcpo@msn.com
Reply To:
To: Reysmont@aol.com
From: Henry J. Stern
Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 3:50 PM
To: hh-westharlemcpo@msn.com
Subject: Forum This Monday
You are cordially invited to hear four experts on mass transit
Diana Fortuna, president, Citizens Budget Commission
Judith Kleinbaum, deputy executive director, MTA
Eliot (Lee) Sander, former commissioner, NYC Dept of Transportation;
director, NYU Rudin Center for Transportation; senior vice president, DMJM + Harris
Harris Schectman, former general manager, NYC Transit;
director of transit planning, Sam Schwartz, LLC
in a forum on Transportation
moderated by Henry Stern
This Monday Evening, October 25, 2004
In co-operation with New York Civic, the Museum of the City of New York is sponsoring a series of public forums this fall on urgent problems facing New York City. Henry J. Stern, president of New York Civic and former Parks & Recreation commissioner, will moderate the programs. Panelists will speak, question each other, and then discussion will go to the floor. People who attend will have the opportunity to ask questions of the speakers. The programs will begin at 6:30 and end by 8:00 p.m.
Transportation
One of the city's less tractable problems, various modes of transportation - railroads, subways, buses, ferries, trucks, taxis, passenger cars and bicycles - will be considered, as well as their impact on congestion, air pollution, and passenger, rider and pedestrian safety.
Our speakers are:
Diana Fortuna is president of the Citizens Budget Commission, a nonpartisan group founded in 1932 that conducts studies and periodically publishes reports on local, state and regional issues. She served on the staff of the White House Domestic Policy Council and as assistant to the administrator of the United States Health Care Financing Administration in Washington, DC. At New York State’s Office of Federal Affairs, she analyzed federal issues for the state. Prior to that, she spent nine years in the City of New York’s Office of Management and Budget, rising to become deputy director.
Linda Kleinbaum has served for 15 years at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. She is currently the deputy executive director for administration and is responsible for capital program budgets and management, construction oversight, real estate, procurement, facilities operation, enterprise information technologies group and the policy division. Prior to assuming this position, Linda served as MTA’s director of policy. Prior to the MTA, Linda held senior positions in New York City government, including chief of staff to the first deputy mayor of the City of New York, director of contracts for the mayor’s office of operations and director of management support for the New York City Fire Department’s Bureau of Fire Prevention.
Eliot (Lee) Sander, commissioner of transportation for two years in the Giuliani administration, now directs the Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management at NYU’s Wagner School of Public Service. Sander is also a senior vice president at DMJM Harris, a leading architectural, planning and engineering firm. He is the former chairman of the Transportation Research Board's committee on large U.S. cities and serves as a senior advisor to National Association of City Transportation Officials He is a commissioner on the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission
Harris M. Schechtman is the director of transit planning for Sam Schwartz LLC. He focuses on innovative solutions for more efficient operation and customer satisfaction in the transit and toll industries. Mr. Schechtman’s 35 years of creative public sector leadership have transformed the region’s transportation landscape by sculpting capital projects into innovative improvements, and service concepts into successful operating realities. As a general manager of New York City Transit, he ran all bus operations in Manhattan, reshaped the route network in all five boroughs, pioneered the zone express concept from which today’s limited-stop services grew, and crafted the construction programs for new depots to support bus operations. Then as vice president of operations at MTA Bridges and Tunnels, he led the team that field-implemented and operated E-Z Pass as a customer-attractive, highly efficient, congestion-eliminating system, attributes that helped it grow into the world’s largest electronic toll system.
The Moderator:
Henry J. Stern, whose park name is StarQuest, founded New York Civic in 2002. He writes regularly on public affairs, and sends his columns to over 10,000 subscribers. Before entering the blogosphere, StarQuest was for fifteen years (a post-Moses record) commissioner of Parks & Recreation, by appointment of Mayor Koch (1983 - 1990) and Mayor Giuliani (1994 - 2002). He is on the boards of the Hudson River Park Trust, Historic House Trust, Battery Conservancy, Trees New York and the Carl Schurz Park Association. Between his terms as Parks commissioner, he was president of Citizens Union, the good government organization, whose board chair at the time was the late Robert F. Wagner, Jr.
In an earlier life, he was elected councilmember at large from Manhattan as the Liberal Party candidate in 1973 and re-elected in 1977. Before that, he was first deputy commissioner of consumer affairs for Commissioner Bess Myerson, and executive director of the Parks Department when Thomas Hoving was commissioner. He also worked for Deputy Mayor Timothy W. Costello, Manhattan Borough Presidents Edward R. Dudley and Constance Baker Motley, and State Supreme Court Justice Matthew M. Levy.
Time:
6:30 p.m.
Place:
Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Avenue (between 103rd and 104th Streets)
How to get there (by mass transit):
By subway: 6 local train to 103rd Street, 2 and 3 trains to 110th Street
By bus: 1, 2, 3 and 4 buses northbound on Madison Avenue to 104th Street
Let us know:
Call 212.564.4441 or e-mail moby@nycivic.org.
Because we are sponsors, the forum will be free for NY Civic subscribers. There will be a charge for the general public, but you and your guest(s) will be admitted without charge.
Change your subscription
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Date: 10/25/2004 12:31:04 AM Eastern Daylight Time
From: hh-westharlemcpo@msn.com
Reply To:
To: Reysmont@aol.com
From: Henry J. Stern
Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 3:50 PM
To: hh-westharlemcpo@msn.com
Subject: Forum This Monday
You are cordially invited to hear four experts on mass transit
Diana Fortuna, president, Citizens Budget Commission
Judith Kleinbaum, deputy executive director, MTA
Eliot (Lee) Sander, former commissioner, NYC Dept of Transportation;
director, NYU Rudin Center for Transportation; senior vice president, DMJM + Harris
Harris Schectman, former general manager, NYC Transit;
director of transit planning, Sam Schwartz, LLC
in a forum on Transportation
moderated by Henry Stern
This Monday Evening, October 25, 2004
In co-operation with New York Civic, the Museum of the City of New York is sponsoring a series of public forums this fall on urgent problems facing New York City. Henry J. Stern, president of New York Civic and former Parks & Recreation commissioner, will moderate the programs. Panelists will speak, question each other, and then discussion will go to the floor. People who attend will have the opportunity to ask questions of the speakers. The programs will begin at 6:30 and end by 8:00 p.m.
Transportation
One of the city's less tractable problems, various modes of transportation - railroads, subways, buses, ferries, trucks, taxis, passenger cars and bicycles - will be considered, as well as their impact on congestion, air pollution, and passenger, rider and pedestrian safety.
Our speakers are:
Diana Fortuna is president of the Citizens Budget Commission, a nonpartisan group founded in 1932 that conducts studies and periodically publishes reports on local, state and regional issues. She served on the staff of the White House Domestic Policy Council and as assistant to the administrator of the United States Health Care Financing Administration in Washington, DC. At New York State’s Office of Federal Affairs, she analyzed federal issues for the state. Prior to that, she spent nine years in the City of New York’s Office of Management and Budget, rising to become deputy director.
Linda Kleinbaum has served for 15 years at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. She is currently the deputy executive director for administration and is responsible for capital program budgets and management, construction oversight, real estate, procurement, facilities operation, enterprise information technologies group and the policy division. Prior to assuming this position, Linda served as MTA’s director of policy. Prior to the MTA, Linda held senior positions in New York City government, including chief of staff to the first deputy mayor of the City of New York, director of contracts for the mayor’s office of operations and director of management support for the New York City Fire Department’s Bureau of Fire Prevention.
Eliot (Lee) Sander, commissioner of transportation for two years in the Giuliani administration, now directs the Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management at NYU’s Wagner School of Public Service. Sander is also a senior vice president at DMJM Harris, a leading architectural, planning and engineering firm. He is the former chairman of the Transportation Research Board's committee on large U.S. cities and serves as a senior advisor to National Association of City Transportation Officials He is a commissioner on the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission
Harris M. Schechtman is the director of transit planning for Sam Schwartz LLC. He focuses on innovative solutions for more efficient operation and customer satisfaction in the transit and toll industries. Mr. Schechtman’s 35 years of creative public sector leadership have transformed the region’s transportation landscape by sculpting capital projects into innovative improvements, and service concepts into successful operating realities. As a general manager of New York City Transit, he ran all bus operations in Manhattan, reshaped the route network in all five boroughs, pioneered the zone express concept from which today’s limited-stop services grew, and crafted the construction programs for new depots to support bus operations. Then as vice president of operations at MTA Bridges and Tunnels, he led the team that field-implemented and operated E-Z Pass as a customer-attractive, highly efficient, congestion-eliminating system, attributes that helped it grow into the world’s largest electronic toll system.
The Moderator:
Henry J. Stern, whose park name is StarQuest, founded New York Civic in 2002. He writes regularly on public affairs, and sends his columns to over 10,000 subscribers. Before entering the blogosphere, StarQuest was for fifteen years (a post-Moses record) commissioner of Parks & Recreation, by appointment of Mayor Koch (1983 - 1990) and Mayor Giuliani (1994 - 2002). He is on the boards of the Hudson River Park Trust, Historic House Trust, Battery Conservancy, Trees New York and the Carl Schurz Park Association. Between his terms as Parks commissioner, he was president of Citizens Union, the good government organization, whose board chair at the time was the late Robert F. Wagner, Jr.
In an earlier life, he was elected councilmember at large from Manhattan as the Liberal Party candidate in 1973 and re-elected in 1977. Before that, he was first deputy commissioner of consumer affairs for Commissioner Bess Myerson, and executive director of the Parks Department when Thomas Hoving was commissioner. He also worked for Deputy Mayor Timothy W. Costello, Manhattan Borough Presidents Edward R. Dudley and Constance Baker Motley, and State Supreme Court Justice Matthew M. Levy.
Time:
6:30 p.m.
Place:
Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Avenue (between 103rd and 104th Streets)
How to get there (by mass transit):
By subway: 6 local train to 103rd Street, 2 and 3 trains to 110th Street
By bus: 1, 2, 3 and 4 buses northbound on Madison Avenue to 104th Street
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