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yonkers waterfront renewal from an alternative transportation point of view

yonkers waterfront “SoYo” has a new private parking garage and less open space

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The soon to be completed Hudson Park is a waterfront eyesore. I thought we were passed the building of parking garages on the Hudson River. This is a micro version of Alexander Street Master Plan which will have 18 building ranging from 30 stories  to 14 stories.  The ASMP also calls for 57 levels of above ground parking on the Hudson shore . What happened to the 2002 NYS open space conservation act and other environmental acts that ensure proper land usage on the waterfront. Parking garages, streets and on street parking on the waterfront are not within the public land use doctrine.

March 6, 2008 Posted by escapefromyonkers | activism, alexanderstreet, brownfield, enviroment, greenways, public space, yonkers | | No Comments Yet

another landslide at 1077 warburton?

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new shoring and retaining wall that appeared today at

1077 Warburton neighbors property

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These boulders weren’t there this afternoon,

looks like another landslide at velocity, every time it rains there is ground movement

Passed by this tonight , i noticed they had pumps at the stream that flows through the stonewall this afternoon.

this evening at 8pm i noticed that new boulders had fallen and that there was new shoring on the bishops property, it looks like the shoring is being used to prevent a mudslide and collapse of bishops rear yard

March 6, 2008 Posted by escapefromyonkers | greystone, yonkers, yonkers waterfront | | No Comments Yet