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Commercial Street Park Still On Hold

Does this look like a park to you? The NY Daily News has a piece today on the finger-pointing and general lack of progress for the park that is slated to be built at 65 Commercial St. in Greenpoint. The city says it's the MTA, the MTA says it's the city. NAG board member Evan Thies is quoted, saying, "The only open space here seems to be the one between the ears of the pencil pushers at the MTA and the city." Fellow NAG board member Christine Holowasz is also quoted in the piece,saying, "[The site is]not any closer to being a park than it was two years ago." (Which is when the above picture was taken.)

Christine told me in an email, "It is terrible. The MTA has increased its uses on the site in [the past] 5 years, and the city has to come up with a site to cover all the uses. Yesterday we had a Community Advisory Board meeting and the city said that they had given another site to the MTA and now we wait again." The Community Advisory Board is a group set up to oversee the promises made to the area during the rezoning.

Holawasz suggests those who want to take action contact Mayor Bloomberg, City Council Member David Yassky, State Assembly Member Joseph Lentol, State Senator Martin Malavé Dilan and MTA Chair H. Dale Hemmerdinger. Make your voice heard!

Photo by Dan, courtesy of a Creative Commons License.