ODR Archive

  • Critical Greenway Meeting this Thursday

    Critical Greenway Meeting this Thursday

    This Thursday evening the Environment & Sanitation and 197a committees of Community Board 8 will be discussing whether to support retaining the caissons from the former FDR Drive Outer Detour Roadway, to be used as part of the project to close the midtown gap in the East River [...]

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  • A Productive Conversation with DEC

    A Productive Conversation with DEC

    When a large barge parked itself next to the East River caissons at 53rd Street, we put a call into DEC and a day later to see what was really going on. After some initial phone wrangling, I was able to speak with a high ranking official at DEC about the matter. DEC explained that [...]

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