waterfront access Archive
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NY State Awards Funding to Help Close the Greenway Gap
Some big news coming in today concerning New York City’s urban waterfront and the East River Greenway. The Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance’s Waterwire reports that New York Secretary of State Lorraine Cortes-Vazquez has announced that $23.8 million will be funneled from the state’s Environmental Protection Fund to waterfront revitalization projects across the state. Of that total, nearly [...] -
UES Community Board Passes Pro-Greenway Resolutions
This past Wednesday night, Manhattan Community Board 8 signaled its support for a world-class East River Greenway by passing resolutions to aimed at improving the Upper East Side’s East River Esplanade. The first resolution deals with maintaining the Esplanade in the short-term and calls on the City’s Parks Department to immediately address the unsafe and [...]