NYCkayaker NYCKayaker Digest, Vol 18, Issue 22

Harry J. Bubbins carrotjuice at friendsofbrookpark.org
Tue Feb 27 23:09:08 EST 2007 

Glad for the inquiries and these sorts of proposals significantly impact all
New Yorkers, and paddlers particularly, as we need to support a climate and
consciousness that includes water access in every place possible, otherwise
it will be continual walls from the river and or taking away launch sites.

Aquatic Development Complex is the term they use in the official doucments,
in addition to Beach Club, which we add "private" too.  Waterpark is too
pleasant... And yes, a fake river, next o a real rover

More comprehensive info at:

http://eastharlempreservation.org/docs/Randalls_Island.htm

We went to albany today and met with the Deputy Secretary on the Environment
as well as legislators in this issue, so thanks to al who are emailing the
Governor!
Assembly Member Denny Farreles staff member Robert A. Anderson iii is a
paddler from Niagra falls.




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>    3. Re:  Email the Governor! To Preserve Randall's Island (mike)
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> From: TomBrooklyn <tombrook11232 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: NYCkayaker Email the Governor! To Preserve Randall's
> Island
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>>  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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> Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 20:00:59 -0500 (GMT-05:00)
> From: bonnie13 at earthlink.net
> Subject: Re: NYCkayaker Email the Governor! To Preserve Randall's
> Island
> To: TomBrooklyn <tombrook11232 at yahoo.com>, nyckayaker at rockandwater.net
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> 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
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> Here's something a lot more recent outlining more objections:
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> http://nyc.indymedia.org/en/2006/11/78628.html
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> To be fair, here's the Randall's Island Sports Foundation:
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> http://www.risf.org/projects_waterpark2.html
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> -----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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> Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 20:23:02 -0500
> From: mike <mpidel at optonline.net>
> Subject: Re: NYCkayaker Email the Governor! To Preserve Randall's
> Island
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> I think the price of admission is going to be pretty high, maybe the
> Riverdale Bronx  kids will be able to afford it.
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>>> From: nyckayaker-bounces at rockandwater.net [mailto:nyckayaker-
>>> bounces at rockandwater.net] On Behalf Of bonnie13 at earthlink.net
>>> Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 8:01 PM
>>> To: TomBrooklyn; nyckayaker at rockandwater.net
>>> Subject: Re: NYCkayaker Email the Governor! To Preserve Randall's
> Island
>>> 
>>> 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
> 
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Harry J. Bubbins
Director
646.206.5288 
http://friendsofbrookpark.org
Mail:  PO Box 801, The South Bronx, NY 10454

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