New York City finally produced a report publicly – in which it claimed it did not exist – on the East River Park reconstruction plan, but remade dozens of pages of key details.
Among the missing information is a “value engineering study” and a list of advantages and disadvantages of alternative construction schemes.
The East River Park Action, which opposes plans to bury the park to fill the city eight to 10 feet and then rebuild it as a flood protection measure, submitted a request for information legislation to study and said That there is no record of it in January. could be found.
The city finally released a 2018 report after East River Park Action appealed the FOIL decision.
The lack of transparency in this $ 1.45 billion public project is unreasonable.
This reduction is a pattern of disdain that the city has shown towards our community, ”said East River Park Action member Tommy Loeb.
“At first they ignored the input of the community, then acted as if this report does not exist and then it magically appeared and was remodeled without justification.”
The city used the Price Engineering Report as the basis for another flood protection plan that would not have destroyed the 57-acre park. The report says that the plan to raise the level of the park would save $ 319 million.
“This project will protect vulnerable New Yorkers from weak weather and rising sea levels, while improving an iconic public space for generations to come. It is a global model and we are proud to deliver it,” City Design And a spokesman for the construction department said Ian Michaels.
City Hall did not immediately comment on why the report was reworked.
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