In the News: Wagner Park neighbors get some attention

August 19, 2022 Parks

The upcoming demolition of Wagner Park as part of the Battery Park City Authority’s resiliency plans has garnered a LOT of citywide attention. Here’s a few of them:

LOCALS RALLY TO HALT $220M PLAN
They say it will ruin popular Manhattan waterfront park —MSN & 4NewYork

COMMUNITY PUSHBACK LEADS TO PROPOSED CHANGES
However, hours before the rally, the Battery Park City Authority announced a new plan that would be increasing green space by more than 74% of what is currently designed. —NY1

BATTLE AT BATTERY PARK CITY
A crowd came to the defense of Robert F. Wagner Jr. Park on the eve of a project to elevate the public space to withstand rising New York Harbor waters. –-The City

BPC RESILIENCY PROJECT GETS 11TH-HOUR BOOST
A $221 million resiliency project in Lower Manhattan is getting a major last-minute design change to expand the plan’s lawn space at Wagner Park, after the greenspace is rebuilt 10 feet higher than it is now to help protect the area from storm surge and sea level rise. —Crain’s

 

4 Comments

  1. Heide Fasnacht
    August 20, 2022 • 5:39 am

    No trees should be demolished. Not one! It’s arboricide.

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  2. Britni Erez
    August 20, 2022 • 6:10 pm

    Thank you for covering this important story!

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  3. jim
    August 20, 2022 • 6:49 pm

    The truth is, it’s still less lawn and more concrete than we have now. This band-aid is meant to quiet opposition but there are many questions still unanswered, my biggest one being why are we raising the only ground that didn’t flood during Sandy? This plan does nothing for resiliency based on a holistic look at climate change challenges, not just storm surge. This whole project feels like a boondoggle meant to justify BPCA’s staffing budgets. We want real resiliency, we want a better plan.

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