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Sarah June's avatar

Curious what you would have done if you were in the position of the ESG volunteers?

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Greg Jordan-Detamore's avatar

I appreciate you writing this up!

I think I agree with most or all of your points.

To me, the big thing is really just how sad the whole situation is. I remember stumbling across ESG by accident a couple years ago and thinking how lovely it was, particularly compared to a lot of NYC neighborhood parks, which IMO are mediocre. And so it was so heartbreaking to hear about what will happen to ESG, and also to see a lot of drive-by Twitter takes from people who have never been to ESG, e.g. “Didn’t you know Central Park exists?”

It’s especially sad to see one of the nicer neighborhood parks in the city being partially developed when: (A) much of the city is zoned for low-density housing, and (B) even if we’re going to build on parks, the city has tons of more mediocre ones that are better candidates. Of course there’s no magic button we can push to make this swap. But still, it’s just really sad. 😢

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