To: City Council of New York and New York City Department of City Planning
Scrap Rezoning in NYC
We, the Sunset Park community, strongly urge the Department of City Planning and City Council of New York (the “City”) to preserve our neighborhood's working waterfront and implement strategies to foster climate resilience. The industrial heritage of this waterfront has long served our working class community as a central employment hub, and the preservation and expansion of such land uses are essential to our economic welfare. We are acutely aware of the disastrous effects that re-zonings have had on similar communities in New York City, particularly with regards to gentrification, displacement, and cultural destruction.
This must not be allowed to happen in Sunset Park. We must strengthen our community’s working waterfront's unique industrial core within a twenty-first century framework of climate resilience in such a way that allows Sunset Park to retain its rich cultural history and legacy of community cohesiveness.
It is with this understanding that the Sunset Park community petitions the City to take all rezoning considerations off the table for our working waterfront.
Thank you
This must not be allowed to happen in Sunset Park. We must strengthen our community’s working waterfront's unique industrial core within a twenty-first century framework of climate resilience in such a way that allows Sunset Park to retain its rich cultural history and legacy of community cohesiveness.
It is with this understanding that the Sunset Park community petitions the City to take all rezoning considerations off the table for our working waterfront.
Thank you
Why is this important?
Re-zonings have resulted in devastating effects to communities through gentrification, displacement and reductions in community cohesiveness. The rich cultural legacy of Sunset Park must be retained and all zoning considerations need be taken off the table for our working waterfront