NYCkayaker safety in HRP

[Nancy Brous]

thanks for the input and suggestions.  (feel free to send them to me
back-channel as i dont want this thread to  become burdensome to the rest of
the list)

keep 'em coming.  once we get this together for a recommendation to HRP, i'm
hoping to pass some of it on to the EDC in the hopes of guiding the
decisions they make about water safety in the planned park on the east river
at the southern end of manhattan.  no need to reinvent the wheel each time,
right?

bonnie, thanks for the link to that article.  unfortunately mr. kim is not
the only person who's drowned in our local  waterways recently.  i'll have
to do a greater search to find some of the other stories, but i'll include
them in our materials.

erik, HRP does have some safety phones, notably near public water-access
points, such as they are.  but they do not have enough of them.  the
assumption that "everyone" has a cel phone these days is erroneous, and as i
discovered the other night when i was inadvertently locked out of the pier
66 boathouse at dusk in wet clothes with no shoes, phone, housekeys, etc,
there are NO PAYPHONES in the park, either.  i agree they need more safety
phones, and this, too has been mentioned.
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