NYTimes, 10.25.08 Yankees Say They Would Have Left Bronx if Pushed
Sunday, October 26th, 2008 Posted in Yankee Stadium Redevelopment | No Comments »October 25, 2008 Yankees Say They Would Have Left Bronx if Pushed By RICHARD SANDOMIR WASHINGTON — Randy Levine, the president of the Yankees, told a Congressional hearing Friday that if the city had not issued tax-exempt financing for the team’s new ...
President’s Blog, September 30, 2008: BRA Upstream Soiree
Monday, September 29th, 2008 Posted in Bronx River, President's Blog | No Comments »FOR MONDAY, SEPT.22d '2008 -The Bronx River Alliance UPSTREAM SOIREE - 6PM The last time I'd visited HuntsPt Riverside Park, this little green gem in the SSBx hosted the Annual BRA.edu.com's Student Research Projects Presentations.That event had student display ...
President’s Blog, September 29, 2008: Yankee Dollar Benefit Awards
Monday, September 29th, 2008 Posted in President's Blog, Yankee Stadium Redevelopment | No Comments »Dear BCEQers, These are my Condensed Impressions (in my short hand) of the Sept 18th Yankee$Dollar$ Benefit$ Award$ Pre$entation Program: Ellen had warned my to take lots of quarters, but the meters were for max 2 hrs, and we arrived ...
President’s blog, September 25, 2008: Croton FMC Sept 08 meeting
Thursday, September 25th, 2008 Posted in CWTP, President's Blog | 2 Comments »COMMENTS ON THE FILTRATION PLANT MONITORING MEETING (these are not minutes, these are my ever-changing personal views and opinions.) Comments on the Facilities Monitoring Committee meeting of September 18 Christina had warned me not to park beyond the end of ...
DEP changes position, Judge disposes of moot case, We win
Saturday, September 13th, 2008 Posted in CWTP, Front Page News, Projects | 2 Comments »We finally did get a final decision by Justice Betty Stinson on the Order to Show Cause that many community groups and individuals brought against the NYC DEP for trying to go against a promise they made to the people ...
Harlem River Brownfiled Opportunity Area (BOA)
Sunday, September 7th, 2008 Posted in Harlem River BOA, Projects | Comments OffThe New York State Brownfield Areas Opportunity (BOA) Program is the redevelopment planning arm of the Superfund/Brownfield Law. The Harlem River BOA proposal came out of BCEQ’s previous Harlem River conferences, and was developed in partnership with broad community participation. ...
BCEQ Doctrine of Low Impact Development
Saturday, September 6th, 2008 Posted in Projects | Comments OffWhereas, BCEQ is being asked to review many new development and re-development projects, we hereby adopt the following as our guideline: BCEQ Doctrine of Low Impact Development Every development project should make at least one environmental condition in its vicinity better and ...
NYC DEP is building the CWTP in Van Cortlandt Park
Friday, September 5th, 2008 Posted in Environmental Reviews, Projects | Comments OffSince there is so much information on this topic, we decided to organize it by groupings. 1. GOVERNMENT - The City of New York's Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) formed a Facilities Monitoring Committee as required by the City Council Approval ...
Yankee Stadium Redevelopment
Thursday, January 5th, 2006 Posted in Projects | No Comments »Our members do not support the taking of public parkland for private profit. The earlier Bronx precedent of taking parkland (in Van Cortlandt Park) for the “public benefit” of clean water, while specious, was (in concept) for some greater good. ...
