Thursday, May 2, 2013

Learn more about the East River Blueway Plan tonight



From the EV Grieve inbox...

Tonight at 6, Manhattan Borough President Scott M. Stringer and Assembly Member Brian Kavanagh will join with hundreds of East Side residents to unveil the East River Blueway Plan, a community-based planning roadmap to bring amenities and storm mitigation measures to the East River, from the Brooklyn Bridge to E. 38th Street.

Who: Manhattan Borough President Scott M. Stringer, Assembly Member Brian Kavanagh, Community Boards 3 & 6, Lower East Side Ecology Center, NYS Department of Coastal Resources, WXY architecture + urban design, Hundreds of East Side residents

Where: Cooper Union, Frederick P. Rose Auditorium, 41 Cooper Square (3rd Avenue between 6th and 7th Streets)

When: 6-8 p.m.

Stringer discussed this plan on Feb. 7 during his annual State of the Borough speech ... The Times had a piece on the project here. Gothamist had more details and renderings like the one below here.

3 comments:

nygrump said...

more years of endless construction obstruction being planned in the park! hurrah!

Anonymous said...

I agree, the residents of Avenues B, C and D should just go Venice-style.

Anonymous said...

The short coming of this plan is that it does not identify the cause of the power failure at the electric plant. Was it flooding? Was it debris? Was it other junction boxes that flooded simultaneously? Or something else. A comprehensive plan must identify the source of the power failure and address measures that experts believe will provide failsafe prevention in the future.