Still not a park! New city board has only two open space pros

When Marty Connor and his loyal follower Joan Millman ushered in the radical funding model of housing/development in the park (never done before) they handed control over to the developers, increased complexity with drastic infrastructure upgrades, and ballooned costs from $100 million to $350 million with unnecessary and exorbitant earthwork. Think of how radical development incongruent with community input delayed Atlantic Yards decades perhaps.

Everyone I speak to wants a park now -- BEFORE OUR KIDS GO TO COLLEGE (already too late for many who fought for the park over the decades) and BEFORE THE REAL ESTATE MARKET RECOVERS.

NOW that NYC has taken control and the real estate market has cooled, we have a great opportunity to revisit the GPP, to simplify and lower capital and maintenance costs.

The space is inherently beautiful without extravagant architectural detail, wasteful earthwork and $84,000 stainless steel domes to adorn Million Dollar luxury condos. Ironically, a lower cost project scope will speed up completion in a way that will yield much more active space for park users (i.e. a little league baseball diamond vs. passive $100 million three story earthwork berms running the length of Furman).

Let's get the park done now. Scrap the luxury condos. Get Marty Connor and his followers out of the way.