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Posted on 11/13/2011 1:39:41 PM PST by skully
YONKERS, N.Y. — A struggling city is trying to transform a featureless downtown parking lot into an edenic park, principally by uncovering and rechanneling part of a river that had been paved over for nearly a century.
The "daylighting" of the Saw Mill River in Yonkers involves diverting part of its underground flow into a newly dug riverbed carefully designed to teem with fish and vegetation.
Around it will be a tree- and flower-filled park that officials say will pulse with poetry readings, jazz concerts and sculptures that children can climb. It will be dotted with kiosks offering interactive lessons on the environment and will be brightly lit to encourage nighttime use.
(Excerpt) Read more at deseretnews.com ...
Shovel ready job.
Is this a $10B Obama Jobs Plan?
Maybe they’ll find Obama’s Kenyan birth certificate and his college grades...
How about putting a saw mill there and actually make something?
Poetry readings and pulse should never be used in the same sentence unless it is a eulogy.
Kiosks offering interactive lessons on the environment???
Really???
Do liberals have to have their fingers in every pie????
Interactive lessons which teach us to revere mother earth and all that will not make or break this project.
It’s hard to imagine tourists going to Yonkers for poetry readings in the park in the first place............
Redevelopment and urban renewal can have good benefits. But please skip the sermon about the environment. We get enough of that elsewhere.
"It's beautiful," she said, "but it won't help the poor."
Is it the sole responsibility of the government, Ms. Williams, to "help the poor"? Or do the poor have an obligation to help themselves?
How does one "help the poor" Ms. Williams, if not by providing opportunity -- as opposed to a friggin' government check?
You want a living? Find a job and go to work!
This is what you get when you give Liberals free reign with other people's money.
The best way to help the poor would be to cut off every bit of assistance which is currently available. The poor would suddenly find ways to be “not poor”.
just put up a casino like they do everywhere else.
Doesn’t anybody build a tradtional park anymore?
I spent a considerable amount of time in Providence RI the first two summers that their waterside park was opened in the 1990’s. ESPN X-Games took place there, the street luge ended in the Waterside Park. My cousin who lived in Providence for 30+ years really can’t say enough good things about the new public park at the base of College Hill.
In Yonkers, this area is a municipal parking lot next to the post office, a sports bar, a few restaurants and bars, etc. Can’t do worse as the area is already a train stop bedroom community, not many people are driving in to that area to patronize local businesses anyway.
I live not far from there. Until you get the riff raff out nothing will change.
I find myself in this discussion every time I go home and visit with my sis, the social worker.
You would be astounded as to what kind of excuses the system will make for "poor people".
Somehow, it's never their fault. It isn't that they made a bad decision...or two...or three. It always devolves into an attack "on the rich".
Somehow, the fact that there are poor people is always the fault of the rich.
Which defines a truism: Liberals are not fundamentally "for the poor". Instead, they are "against the rich".
Liberalism is all about punishing the rich. To which end, I have yet to determine...
Mike Tyson will be reciting poetry there.
The Left would say that JK Rowling, having earned $1B from Harry Potter, is an evil rich person who causes poor people to exist. The article basically says, "Explain that one to me --??"
It's a terrible, losing bet because the high investments must be recouped in just several months a year and rarely can be. Of course, this is a government project so ROI is not an issue. Yonkers will, no doubt, look nicer when it's finished, but whatever development occurs there will have been pulled from somewhere else and will be massively subsidized, too.
It's the logical result of the blue state regimes.
Social Workers really don't want people off of public assistance. The more "clients" they have, the more budget and authority they enjoy.
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