| No. 33 |
Wednesday,
December 5, 2001 |
- Commissioner Stern celebrates the Kingsford
Triangle Greenstreet ribbon cutting at 11
AM today. The site is located at Hillside
Avenue, Wexford Terrace, and Kingston Place
in Queens. More
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- Parks acquired 37.687 acres in the month
of November. Parks now consists of 1,721 properties
which occupy 28,576 acres, about 13 percent
of the City of New York.
- The Bronx
River Ecology Team meets at Ranaqua,
the Bronx Borough Headquarters, to vote for
proposals that are to receive funding from
a $414,300 National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA) grant. The Ecology Team
advises field staff on ecological techniques
that restore the health and the habitat of
the Bronx River watershed.
- Bids were received from contractors yesterday
(12/4) for the project to Reconstruct the
Mall on Queens Blvd between 84th and 87th
Avenue in Queens. The bids will be reviewed.
- The
Parks Enforcement Patrol (PEP)
in Queens issued a summons to a citizen for
destruction of a city tree. The tree was cut
down on 145 Avenue in Queens, leaving a 3-inch
stump.
- The Queens Borough Commissioner and Vollmer
Associates Architecture Firm inspect possible
parking sites under the Whitestone and Van
Wyck Expressway interchanges. The sites to
be used during the construction of the new
Shea Stadium.
The Borough Commissioner identified more than
3,000 parking places outside of Flushing Meadows-Corona
Park that could be used for the duration of
the construction as well as overflow parking
for the U.S. Open Tennis matches. The use
of these external sites would eliminate the
need to use any grassland for parking during
this project.
- Parks hosts Holiday Tree Lighting on Randall's
Island at 3:30 PM and at Tompkinsville Park
at 4:30 PM in Staten Island. Tompkinsville
Park is located at Bay Street and Victory
Boulevard.
- Teens at Parks (TAP) officially expanded
the number of instructional classes to 16
in each borough. The classes are designed
to introduce teens to dance, theatre and visual
art. more
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