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PortSide reporting + testimony

 

EDC plans for the Red Hook waterfront

PlanYC 2030 sustainability plans for NYC

H2O info

 

PortSide Commentary on NYC's Vision 2020 Comprehensive Waterfront Plan:

11/12/10 PortSide Response to Draft Recommendations

We encourage all of you to read the plan and engage in the implementation process so the vision becomes real.  Due to the large size of the plan, even at low resolution, it may be easier to download it in segments here than as one file here.

 

(more on Vision 2020 on the NYC Dept. of City Planning website)

 

Some PortSide City Council Waterfront Committee Testimony:
 12/14/06 South Brooklyn Working Waterfront (oversight hearing by the Land Use Subcommittee Landmarks, Public Siting, Maritime Uses and the Committee on Waterfronts)

10/31/06 Rules of the Road, sharing the waterway

2/13/06  General waterfront issues
6/15/05  Regulatory Obstacles to Waterfront Development (the DEC)
1/12/05  Waterfront Employment
 

Other PortSide Testimony:
PortSide comment on plans for "Public Place" on Gowanus Canal
PortSide comment on spring 2007 redesign of PS 15 playground

 

PortSide Reports Essay Archive:
 Tributes to Jane Jacobs 4/2006
 Floating Island, 9/2005
Once & Future Mariner, by Joel Milton

 

 NYC Waterfront Government:

The Department of Parks & Recreation runs several waterfront facilities.

Many new waterfront parks are not operated by the Parks Department:

Battery Park City Park
Hudson River Park
Brooklyn Bridge Park
Governor's Island
Empire State Park (DUMBO)
 

The City has 2 dockmasters, vestiges of the once large department Ports & Trade.  The Dockmasters are within the Department of Small Business Services. They are charged with inspecting the city's some 500+ miles of waterfront and do not have a boat.

City Council Waterfronts Committee:

3/08 The city council approved legislation (Intro 867-A) to resurrect the Waterfront Advisory Board that has been defunct since the Dinkins era by reauthorizing the formation of the board as a 21-member entity. The board will "advise ... on matters relating to the industrial, commercial, residential, recreational and any other development of the city's wharves and water front property and on other matters.."

Chair Michael C. Nelson

District Office Address
3810-A Nostrand Avenue
Brooklyn, New York 11235

District Office Phone 718-368-9176
District Office Fax     718-368-9160

Legislative Office Address
250 Broadway
18th Floor
New York, NY 10007

Legislative Office Phone
212-788-7360

E-mail Address
nelson@council.nyc.ny.us

Committee Members:
Chair Michael C. Nelson
Gale A. Brewer
Brad Lander

Eric Ulrich

Peter Vallone, Jr.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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