In a surprising role change, Roosevelt Island’s Four Freedoms Park set an attendance record in January as 100,115 people passed its gate.
Pinning down reasons is hard, but there’s no question the park’s serenity, its reputation as a mid-city refuge played a part.
While discussing tentative plans for reopening this year, executive director Howard Axel mentioned the surprising news. Four Freedoms Park’s record attendance reflects its emerging role in community life, and the next year may see more of the same.
Can the Lawsuit Reach the Stacks in Time?
Residents have spent months asking City and State agencies to show why the Roosevelt Island Steam Plant must be demolished. Meetings produced promises. The CAG produced more process.
The underlying record remains largely hidden. Now two residents have taken the question somewhere government cannot manage quite as easily: a courtroom.
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