$30 MILLION JOINT OPERATIONS COMMAND CENTER BEING ERECTED NEXT TO POLICE HEADQUARTERS WITHOUT REVIEW
CIVIC CENTER RESIDENTS COALITION AND OUR ATTORNEYS AT DEWEY LEBOEUF LLP APPEAL SUPREME COURT DECISION
Chinatown and Civic Center resident plaintiffs and their attorneys at Dewey LeBoeuf LLP are appealing a decision of the New York Supreme Court holding that the NYPD does not need to conduct environmental and land use review before constructing a $30 million centralized "Joint Operations Command Center" facility at 109 Park Row - next to the Brooklyn Bridge.
The court found that no such review was needed because it compared the proposed NYPD Command Center with an FDNY call facility that was located at 109 Park Row over ten years ago, and found that they were "substantially similar." We are arguing on appeal that the environmental and land use review statutes require a consideration of the "existing" environment -- not the environment as it may have been a decade ago.
Therefore, we contend the lower court committed error by disregarding the decade-long period of vacancy at 109 Park Row, by not holding a trial, and by refusing to permit them to conduct any discovery of the NYPD’s records to show the true scope of the planned project.
Our attorneys at Dewey LeBoeuf LLP will be arguing our case onJune 15, 2010 at the New York State 27 Madison Avenue 25th Street 2:00PM-5:00PM
The court found that no such review was needed because it compared the proposed NYPD Command Center with an FDNY call facility that was located at 109 Park Row over ten years ago, and found that they were "substantially similar." We are arguing on appeal that the environmental and land use review statutes require a consideration of the "existing" environment -- not the environment as it may have been a decade ago.
Therefore, we contend the lower court committed error by disregarding the decade-long period of vacancy at 109 Park Row, by not holding a trial, and by refusing to permit them to conduct any discovery of the NYPD’s records to show the true scope of the planned project.
Our attorneys at Dewey LeBoeuf LLP will be arguing our case on
We oppose installing a high risk security building next to Police Headquarters in Chinatown and the Civic Center area -- dense with residential developments, across the street from a public high school, next to the Brooklyn Bridge (an already known terrorist target and one of the most recognizable bridges in the world), multiple subway lines as well as other federal, state and city government offices/courthouses, just blocks from City Hall, Wall Street, and the World Trade Center -- defying common sense.
Its location increases the security risk to all ofLower Manhattan .
Did we learn nothing from the location/collapse of the Office of Emergency Management (OEM) at 7 World Trade Center (a known terrorist target) and the 9/11 terror trials debacle?
We hope the Appellate Division will recognize the fundamental flaws in the Supreme Court's decision and order environmental and land use review.
Its location increases the security risk to all of
Did we learn nothing from the location/collapse of the Office of Emergency Management (OEM) at 7 World Trade Center (a known terrorist target) and the 9/11 terror trials debacle?
We hope the Appellate Division will recognize the fundamental flaws in the Supreme Court's decision and order environmental and land use review.
1 comment:
It's sickening what the city is trying to do to Chinatown after 9/11. Of course the politicians think they can walk all over the residents. Thank god for certain people in the community like Jan Lee who are fighting for our rights.
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