To: FReepers; everyone; All
Shovel ready job.
Is this a $10B Obama Jobs Plan?
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!
just put up a casino like they do everywhere else.
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.
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.
"It's beautiful," she said, "but it won't help the poor."
I'd like to ask Ms Williams about where her children are who have left her custodian of 4 grand-kids! Does she have a husband or is she the earlier generation of welfare single mothers? Stopping poverty STARTS with individual choices, not government handouts!