Archived Court halts construction of island park funded by Barry Diller (crainsnewyork.com)
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Archived Court halts construction of island park funded by Barry Diller (crainsnewyork.com)
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Now obviously the environmental angle is just being used as leverage to get into court - this is an onerous technique when performed by NIMBY's but in this case the City Club is very clearly telegraphing their real argument. At the core the project was rushed through the review process in secret via backdoor meetings. The contention is that this is ultimately going to just be a really great event space for private functions and it will be controlled by private interests while masquerading as a public park. The design suggests as much, and could be much more functional, were it actually intended to be a public greenspace. Imagine this is built and then half the weekends of the year it is more or less roped off (convenient based on the design with the one narrow entrance) so super rich people can have weddings or parties or whatever.