Wednesday, February 22 at 7:00pm — BRC Senior Services Center - 30 Delancey Street (btwn Chrystie & Forsyth Sts)
* CB 3, Parks Department, Senator Daniel Squadron and East River Blueway to engage the community in a discussion on next steps for Pier 42 planning
This week the Waterfront on Wheels is in residence at P.S. 134. The school’s third graders are going to build models of their dream park at Pier 42, which happens to be 4 blocks from the school, by the end of the week. Today we talked about where our neighborhood is in the city and where the model is in the neighborhood.
On Monday evening November 28th, Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP) is hosting a panel discussion about the East River Waterfront redevelopment. Featuring Anne Frederick, Hester Street Collaborative, Damaris Reyes, GOLES (Good Old Lower East Side), and Esther Wang, CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities and moderated by Kaja Kühl, GSAPP.
About Where is New York: Each month, one program at GSAPP will identify a site within the five boroughs that has been important to their discipline within the past year and bring designers, policymakers, developers, community activists, and other New Yorkers together to discuss the site and question where we are.
We just came from a press conference with U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer and NY State Senator Daniel Squadron who announced that $14 million had been secured for Pier 42 from the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation. This exciting news is the result of many years of advocacy on the part of community leaders from the O.U.R. Waterfront Coalition (which HSC is a part of) and Community Board 3. Schumer, Squadron, and along with Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe reinforced the idea that planning for the public space on Pier 42 should come from the ground up through a community process. This is exactly the role that the Waterfront on Wheels plays. Ultimately the LMDC estimates that $40 million is needed for the entire refurbishment and transformation of the pier into a public park, but Senator Squadron stressed that this 14 million will allow the abandoned pier shed building to be demolished and for interim public access to the site as soon as a year from now.
In 2009 HSC and the O.U.R. Waterfront Coalition released A People’s Plan for the East River Waterfront, a report that outlines recommendations for the redevelopment of Piers 35, 36, and 42 based on extensive input from local residents. The Waterfront on Wheels process expands upon the People’s Plan to focus specifically on Pier 42.
Poster campaign created by HSC, design by Meryl Friedman
WoW was in Sara D. Roosevelt Park on Thursday afternoon, July 28th. We had a lot of interest from kids and teenagers in the park, so much so that a two year old godzilla attacked WoW, we managed to save the city though.
Three youth from CAAAV:Organizing Asian Communities helped gather up participants and did outreach about the developments happening on the waterfront. WoW will next be traveling back to the East River Waterfront this Friday evening.
