Tag: park
Community leaders are beginning to show opposition to the construction of an underground indoor park on the Lower East Side. The Lowline would be located beneath Delancey Street in a trolley station that has been abandoned for 60 years, but critics would like to see more consultation with the community. Kerri Culhane, associate director of […]
The results of a year-long feasibility study for the QueensWay are being presented today. The $120 million project would develop the disused, overgrown Rockaway Rail Line into a park resembling the High Line. The proposal has been tailored specifically to get Mayor Bill de Blasio to like it by satisfying “both his traffic safety and park equity agendas,” reports Capital […]
Forest Park employees discovered a bag of 868 hypodermic needles last week. According to a spokesperson, the bag was found near Park Lane South and 112th Street in Richmond Hill, Queens, under a guardrail. All the needles appear to be used. “It’s sad somebody would do that and put the public at risk,” Richmond Hill Block Association […]
Twenty-seven years after the Chernobyl disaster, researchers are surprised to find that animals in the fall out zone don’t actually glow in the dark. Mary Mycio, author of Wormwood Forest: A Natural History of Chernobyl, spent several months wandering through the exclusion zone, the evacuated area hit hardest by the fall out, and calls it a […]
