Proposal Example

Dear Mayor Bloomberg:

We ask you to support BP Scott Stringer’s and other elected official’s proposal for a park and fewer sanitation facilities at Canal and Spring Streets in conjunction with the community’s AIA award winning and PlaNYC compatible green design for the southern terminus of the High Line, including a safe crossing to Pier 40. The residents, business and property owners in Hudson Square have made amazing investments in the community to create one of the most exciting neighborhoods in NYC.

According to Trinity Real Estate, “Hudson Square’s convenient location, vibrant atmosphere and intriguing mix of office buildings, restaurants, shops, galleries and new residential projects make it the ideal setting in which to invent, prosper — and replenish.”

We support best efforts to relocate the sanitation garages and salt shed from Gansevoort Peninsula to create a better Hudson River Park, but it has to be done inclusively and sensitively in the context of master planning for our neighborhood, not driven by a private settlement agreement which did not involve affected parties.

In 1999, the community and community boards worked out a consensus plan that was approved under ULURP for two garages with a park on top at 29th Street in Hudson Yards. HUDSON SQUARE DESERVES THE SAME. PLEASE WORK WITH US IN PLACEMAKING TO CREATE A DEFINING ASPECT OF THE WATERFRONT AND THE WEST SIDE FOR THE NEXT HUNDRED YEARS.


(http://www.savehudsonsquare.org/)