NYCkayaker Email the Governor! To Preserve Randall's Island

[bonnie13 at earthlink.net]

It's a water park - slides, what have you. No actual swimming pools, which you'd think that something called the Randall's Island Sports Foundation would have a problem with. It's a tough one, because yes, there are a lot of kids in the Bronx who would love to go to a water park. But it's one of these things where public land is being handed over to a private developer, the process wasn't open to any other bids, the thing has now doubled in size, and there's a lot of speculation over how many of those kids in the Bronx will even be able to afford it, and there would be environmental concerns, too - again, like what's going on in the Hudson River Park, it just seems like a good idea to say hey, let's take a good close look at this before it's a done deal...

Here's a good Waterwire article on it, with lots of links:

http://www.waterwire.net/News/fullstory.cfm?ContID=1825

Here's something a lot more recent outlining more objections: 

http://nyc.indymedia.org/en/2006/11/78628.html

To be fair, here's the Randall's Island Sports Foundation:

http://www.risf.org/projects_waterpark2.html














 

-----Original Message-----
>From: TomBrooklyn <tombrook11232 at yahoo.com>
>Sent: Feb 26, 2007 6:49 PM
>To: nyckayaker at rockandwater.net
>Subject: Re: NYCkayaker Email the Governor! To Preserve Randall's Island
>
>>  Email the Governor to stop the destruction of 26 acres of open space and
>> wetlands on Randall's Island! 
>> Write:
>> "Please deny the a DEC permit applications to destroy wetlands and littoral
>> environment for a 26 acre aquatic development complex... 
>> on public park land...  
>> 
>> Harry J. Bubbins, Director 646.206.5288  http://friendsofbrookpark.org
>===================
>Hi,
>What is an aquatic development complex? 
>TomBk
>
>
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