Posted on 08/08/2023 4:43:55 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
On Monday, local, state and federal leaders joined environmental activists to tour the Harlem River by boat. They hope to tackle disparities between different parts of the city.
New York City has more shoreline than Miami, Boston, Los Angeles and San Francisco combined, but access points to the waterways are not distributed equally.
Dozens filled the deck of a Circle Line boat to discover a new perspective of home. This is the second year Congressman Adriano Espaillat (NY-13) and the Harlem River Working Group have organized the tour to call for more support. The group also included Bronx and Harlem River Watersheds Urban Waters Federal Partnership, Bronx Council for Environmental Quality, Hudson River Foundation and WE ACT for Environmental Justice.
"They are the foot soldiers in this effort to bring about the changes that we need to see and save Mother Earth," Espaillat said.
"I was hoping to see a dolphin or something," said District 10 Council member Carmen De La Rosa.
Instead, De La Rosa saw a vast difference in her district along the Harlem River compared to the developments farther south along the Hudson.
"Especially on the Bronx side, you see that infrastructure is very decrepit," De La Rosa said. "It looks like it hasn't been touched in so long."
Advocates have worked not only to increase the activities available on the upper waterways, but also to address tributaries like Tibbett's Brook in the Bronx, which was covered more than a century ago.
"The rainwater mixes with the sewers, and when they can't manage it, that sewer water goes out into our rivers," explained Chauncy Young from the Harlem River Working Group.
The city is now working to uncover the creek and has greenlit the Harlem River Greenway. Once complete, the $227 million project will include a renewed seawall and environmental investments, a healthier habitat for all.
Espaillat emphasized the need for speedy action against the current climate crisis, with the tour previously postponed due to the Canadian wildfires' impact on air quality.
"Mother Nature is talking to us," Espaillat warned. "We'd better listen."
The Harlem River Greenway is part of a larger project to fill gaps in the riverside routes around Manhattan.
With kickbacks for the Socialist Democrats onboard the boat tour that day, no doubt! ;)
"Mother Nature is talking to us," Espaillat warned. "We'd better listen."
“but access points to the waterways are not distributed equally.” That is the crux of the piece. Access points cannot ever be equal due to geography and other factors. More nonsensical racist bulverism shoved down our throats.
That’s an unusual expectation. It nice to see people of such high intelligence in government. No one better tell her about land sharks.
LOL! I was waiting for someone to comment on that! ;)
Washington governor Jay Inslee said "What the scientific community is telling us now is that the Earth is screaming at us" a little more than two weeks ago.
The Harlem River ‘environment’ is a shithole, because the residents there have chosen to make it so. Go ahead and throw away BILLION$ to pretty it up....it will return to a shithole.
The 3-inch deck gun on the tour boat should be a clue.
The Bronx side of the Harlem Estuary is perhaps mostly palisade and bluff at the north end where it enters the Hudson. It also includes Yankee Stadium and the parkland that was the old Stadium. Much of the rest is I87 and Metro North and Amtrac. Both right along the water. There are a few entry points, such as where Columbia and Fordham crew teams store their craft and practice. Those are on the Manhattan side.
Maybe Espaillat should ask Mother Nature what she thinks about transing kids
Chevy Chase is pretty old now.
Why oh why are there disparities in different parts of the cities.????
Politicians from around the world just can't seem to figure that out..
They have mouths, but they speak not; eyes have they, but they see not; Psalms 135:16
I remember that. The day he said that, I checked the temps for Spokane and Tacoma. 68 degrees and 70 degrees, respectively. That was 3:45 PM.
Yeah, those are horrid, screaming temps, all right.
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Translation: We want lots of money and we want it now. The only thing government does fast is write checks to its favored groups.
It’s a total waste of money. It will all be under 200 feet of water in 7 years, or whatever the preachers of the Church of Global Warming are telling us.
Take your pick, either side of the Harlem River sucks, the South Bronx moreso, but none of it is an urban oasis.
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