Our community has been protesting the building of a Sanitation Garage on East 25th Street for a few years now. We know that Community Board 6 has voted against this project and has just added funding into its budget for a park. However, we are also aware that we must keep up the battle with the city and our local politicians. I want to make sure that the funding remains in the budget and that CB6 continues to help all of us fight the disruption to the health and well-being of our neighborhood.
Our neighborhood has the least amount of green space than any other Manhattan neighborhood and has lots of low income residences with nowhere for the young children to play. There is also a very high pollution level in our neighborhood, among the highest if not highest of all NYC. These statistics make saving that green space and turning it into something for the residents to breathe and youngsters to play in all the more vital. A park will make all the difference in saving or destroying this already tenuous neighborhood.
Lastly, we already have a dearth of hospitals with ambulances and fire trucks, constantly streaming up and down First and Second Avenues. The addition of 80 garbage trucks, chugging and grinding along those avenues day and night, will be a hazard to emergency vehicles and add terrible pollutants to the air we breathe.
I truly hope you will consider saving our neighborhood.
Thank you for your consideration.
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