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Chauncy just called; said Gate 2 just came down!

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010 Posted in Front Page News, Yankee Stadium Redevelopment | Comments Off

Yippee! ! ! !! ! !!! !!! !! it was about one hour ago, so 12:30 pm on March 31, 2010

Sensitive Area Campaign

Monday, March 15th, 2010 Posted in Bronx River, Committees, Front Page News, Harlem River Working Group, Water Committee | Comments Off

BCEQ letter BCEQ__Requesting_Sensitive_Area_02172010 Sample letter for your organization to sign Senstive Areas Organization Letterhead Petition for your and your friends to sign PETITION Sensitive Areas

Program Water Conference, March 17th

Monday, March 15th, 2010 Posted in Bronx River, Committees, Front Page News, Harlem River BOA, Harlem River Working Group, Low Impact Development, Membership Committee, Water Committee, Yankee Stadium Redevelopment | Comments Off

PROGRAM “Examining Harlem River Water Quality: Imputs, Effects and Solutions” Wednesday, March 17, 2010 at Manhattan College, Leo Engineering Building 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm, Main Auditorium: GENERAL MEETING What is the NY-NJ Harbor Estuary Program? What is an Estuary? ...

Draft Action Agenda for DEC’s Hudson River Estuary Program

Thursday, February 11th, 2010 Posted in Bronx River, Harlem River Working Group, Water Committee | Comments Off

http://www.dec.ny.gov/lands/5104.html The Draft Hudson River Estuary Action Agenda 2010-2014 (pdf, 2MB) is now available for public comment. Written comments on the draft may be submitted until February 22, 2010. Comments can be sent via e-mail to hrep@gw.dec.state.ny.us (please include the words ...

Bronx Parks Speak Up: Sat., February 27

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010 Posted in Front Page News, Low Impact Development, Parks Committee, Project Green | 1 Comment »

Bronx Parks Speak Up! Open Spaces, Environment and Health Presentations Energy Efficiency Harlem River Working Group Shape Up NY Workshops Rain Water Harvesting Organic Growing Techniques Worm Bins Made Easy (composting) Panel Discussion Sustainable/Green Community Development Learn about all the Resources/Opportunities for Community Groups, Educators & Volunteers Join us ...

Protected: BOA Status December 2009

Friday, December 11th, 2009 Posted in Harlem River BOA | Comments Off

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December HRWG Meetings

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009 Posted in Front Page News, Harlem River Working Group | Comments Off

The next Working Group meeting will be on Wednesday, December 16th at 4pm in the Borough President’s Office 851 Grand Concourse, Room 123 (1st floor) Please arrive 5-10 minutes early because you will need to go through screening/metal detectors Chauncy will be emailing out Agenda. Upcoming ...

Report on the Community Meeting of the Croton Monitors

Sunday, November 1st, 2009 Posted in CWTP, Front Page News | Comments Off

The information is listed at the following link: WaterBlogged.org » From Guest Pens: Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz – Croton is one of the Mayor’s worst failures http://bit.ly/3Xawfi We could not agree more! Related Stories: November 2007 Report from Assemblyman Dinowitz The Comptroller's audits can be found ...

Dropping the Ball: NY Yankee Stadium truned Parks into Parking Lots

Saturday, October 24th, 2009 Posted in In the News, Yankee Stadium Redevelopment | Comments Off

SIDEBAR Dropping the Ball How the New Yankee Stadium Turned Parks into Parking Lots By Matt Johanson When the Yankees opened their new stadium and pinstriped stars like Derek Jeter and Mariano Rivera ran onto the field for the first time, the cheers of ...

Thurs. 10/29/09, 6:30 pm Community Members of the Croton FMC meet at Vladeck Hall

Friday, October 23rd, 2009 Posted in Calendared Items, CWTP, Front Page News | 1 Comment »

On Thursday, October 29, 2009 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Community Members of the Croton Facilities Monitoring Committee (CFMC) -- Bronx Community Boards 7, 8 &12, Borough President Ruben Diaz and Council Member Oliver Koppell, will hold an informational ...

Oh where oh where are our replacement parks II

Saturday, October 17th, 2009 Posted in Environmental Reviews, Front Page News, UnBLOGlievable!, Yankee Stadium Redevelopment | Comments Off

Great Report by community member last August. Still no word from the State Parks Department. What's up with that? Garage A project inconsistencies 082309 We hear that the waterfront parks (many miles from where the people live, but across from the shopping ...

Vice Presidents Blog: Kingsbridge Armory testimony

Saturday, October 17th, 2009 Posted in Environmental Reviews, Front Page News, Kingsbridge Armory, Vice Presidents' Blog | Comments Off

At its monthly meeting on Wednesday, October 14th, Bronx Council for Environmental Quality (BCEQ) considered your request to become part of the Alliance that is fighting for responsible development of the Kingsbridge Armory. We were unanimous in that, while we support ...

Kingsbridge Armory comments to the CPC and EDC

Friday, October 16th, 2009 Posted in Committees, Communications Committee Work, Front Page News, Low Impact Development | Comments Off

Below is our testimony in a letter signed by our President, Ira Charles Leveberg Engel, sent October 16th to the City Planning Commission and the Economic Development Corporation from BCEQ concerning the EIS for the Kingsbridge Armory redevelopment. Kingsbridge Armory 101609b If ...

Bronx River plan to abate the combined sewer overflow consent decree

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009 Posted in Bronx River, Front Page News, Low Impact Development, Project Green, Water Committee | Comments Off

What can we say? The DEP put forth yet another stellar (not really) plan for Clean Water on the Bronx River. With excuses like, Westchester County pollutes the river; we can not use Green roofs as we have ...

DEP offers Bronx River CSO Plan, August 2009

Saturday, September 5th, 2009 Posted in Bronx River, Front Page News, UnBLOGlievable!, Water Committee | Comments Off

All of a sudden, after two years of waitin, the Public meeting was called for August 19. We get one month to comment. Send in comments on or before September 18, 2009 to Sue McCormick, P.E. NYS DEC 625 Broadway Albany, NY 12233-3506 sdmccorm@gw.dec.state.ny.us Here are ...

Sept. 30 – Harlem River Working Group Meeting

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009 Posted in Front Page News, Harlem River Working Group, Water Committee | Comments Off

Harlem River Working Group (HRWG) The next meeting will take place on Wed. September 30th, from 6 pm to 8 pm Community Board 7, 229A East 204th Street, btw Grand Conc. & Valentine Ave. This newly formed group, which includes over 30 member organizations, ...

Oh where oh where have our replacement parks gone?

Monday, August 31st, 2009 Posted in Front Page News, UnBLOGlievable!, Yankee Stadium Redevelopment | Comments Off

Well folks, they are not where they should be. If anyone thinks we are kidding, just go see for yourself. This is simply a theft of services. I do not know why they are building half a garage and half ...

Harlem River Working Group NPS Application filed

Friday, July 31st, 2009 Posted in Front Page News, Harlem River Working Group, Water Committee | Comments Off

The completed application mailed to the National Park Service (NPS) requested the following help: Organizational Development – the group needs assistance in identifying new stakeholders and in determining the most efficient organizational structure for the group to carry out its work. Planning ...

ALERT: Community Groups — Harlem River needs letter of support

Thursday, July 9th, 2009 Posted in Front Page News, Harlem River BOA, Harlem River Working Group, Projects, Water Committee | Comments Off

DEADLINE: JULY 27, 2009 SEE DOCUMENTS TO DOWNLOAD BELOW We request your help in the form of a letter of support to the National Park Service to enable a group of interested parties to request funding and staff support ...

Harlem River Working Group (HRWG)

Saturday, May 9th, 2009 Posted in Committees, Front Page News, Harlem River Working Group, Water Committee | Comments Off

Harlem River Working Group formed at May 6th Meeting The minutes and other important documents are listed below. Please check back often on the righ hand column under PROJECTS and/or WATER COMMITTEE. BCEQ BOA Report - with maps and description of the land ...