HHuman-Scale NYC has organized colleague neighborhood organizations to protest over-development and the real estate lobby's control of NYC. "Bring your Signs, Outrage & Friends!" Saturday, October 13th at 12 noon to City Hall Park. Rain or Shine. RSVP for this Free Event HERE. Color Event Poster HERE.
The City Council Committee on Land Use is expected to discuss MIH and ZQA in advance of an upcoming fully city council vote expected on March 22nd.
From New Yorkers for a Human Scale City Come one, come all! Turn out February 9th, 9:30 a.m., at City Hall itself, for the City Council hearing on the hated up-zonings. Take the day off work. Let the City Council know, in person, with two-minute testimony, what you think. Councilmember David Greenfield will be presiding […]
The City Council is expected to vote to give themselves a raise from $112,500 to $148,500 (and $164,500 for Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito), far in excess of inflation and what an official Quadrennial (pay raise) Commission recommended, as reported by the New York Daily News. Coincidentally (?) the vote on Intro. 573-a, aka the Horse Carriage "compromise" […]
Proposed Int. No. 573-A: Operation of horse drawn carriages. The bill would reduce the number of licenses for horses used in the operation of horse-drawn carriages and the number of hours a horse-drawn carriage may operate during a 24-hour period, establish a stable in Central Park, limit the operation of horse-drawn carriages to Central Park, and […]
Read more on A Walk in the Park blog, link here.