I wanted to pass along information on tomorrow's rally in Central Park.  Read below and please come join us!  Oh, by the way, how great is the Broadway announcement???  I'm excited to live in NYC and can't wait until the DOT starts coming our way with these improvements.  Read streetsblog.org for more information.  And start asking for these changes on your streets!!!

MEDIA ADVISORY
FOR SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2009
 
Drinking Water for 8 Million New Yorkers Threatened by Toxic Chemicals
 
Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer Leads Protest Against Proposed Gas Drilling near Upstate Reservoirs
 
Riverkeeper, Sierra Club, other environmental groups join demonstration at Central Park Reservoir
 
Manhattan Borough President Scott M. Stringer, joined by environmental groups including Riverkeeper and the Sierra Club, will call for a ban on natural gas drilling in New York City’s upstate watershed.  Describing the drilling process using toxic and carcinogenic chemicals as “the greatest health risk to New Yorkers in a generation,” Borough President Stringer will call on the state to forbid such drilling in or near all areas that feed the city’s reservoirs. 
 
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Central Park Reservoir, Fifth Avenue and 90th Street (Engineer’s Gate)
Noon
 

Hi all,

The Broadway announcement is awesone indeed.  A couple of striking 
things about it though, at least from my reading of the Feb 26 NY Times 
article:

1.  The improvements to Broadway stop at 59th street, leaving us UWS 
residents in the cold.

2.  There is an option to extend things south on Broadway into Chelsea 
and the Village.

3.  There's a focus on improving intersections where Broadway intersects 
avenues.

Well, when I used to drive in New York, one of the most frustrating 
intersections was at 72nd street where Broadway meets Amsterdam.  The 
congestion due to that complicated intersection blocks uptown traffic on 
Amsterdam, on a daily basis.  Closing Broadway there would really 
improve traffic flow.

Is the DOT excluding the UWS just because of the sticks-in-the-mud on 
our community board, and its transportation committee in particular?

-- Steven


Lisa Sladkus wrote:

> I wanted to pass along information on tomorrow's rally in Central Park.  Read below and please come join us!  Oh, by the way, how great is the Broadway announcement???  I'm excited to live in NYC and can't wait until the DOT starts coming our way with these improvements.  Read streetsblog.org for more information.  And start asking for these changes on your streets!!!
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> MEDIA ADVISORY
> FOR SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2009
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> Drinking Water for 8 Million New Yorkers Threatened by Toxic Chemicals
>  
> Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer Leads Protest Against Proposed Gas Drilling near Upstate Reservoirs
>  
> Riverkeeper, Sierra Club, other environmental groups join demonstration at Central Park Reservoir
>  
> Manhattan Borough President Scott M. Stringer, joined by environmental groups including Riverkeeper and the Sierra Club, will call for a ban on natural gas drilling in New York City’s upstate watershed.  Describing the drilling process using toxic and carcinogenic chemicals as “the greatest health risk to New Yorkers in a generation,” Borough President Stringer will call on the state to forbid such drilling in or near all areas that feed the city’s reservoirs. 
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> Saturday, February 28, 2009
> Central Park Reservoir, Fifth Avenue and 90th Street (Engineer’s Gate)
> Noon
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