Continue to FAX & EMAIL the NYC COUNCIL asking them to protect the westward view from Sunset Park

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Dear NYC Council Member: On the eve of the Proposed Sunset Park Re-zoning Plan Vote...

...we beg that you take one last look at how the plan proposed by the NYC Planning Department will obscure a significant portion of the magnificent and panoramic view from Sunset Park facing WEST. Please take a few minutes to read the following words presented as testimony at last week's hearing of the Council's Zoning and Franchises Sub-Committee. We represent tens of thousands of hard working residents, business owners and visitors who over the years have given of their time and money to return Sunset Park to its rightful place as one of the best, if not the best, sited park in all of New York City. Tomorrow afternoon, we ask that you vote as if you lived in Sunset Park, ran your business from Sunset Park and/or believed that preserving the history and soul of New York is worth fighting for. We do! What we're asking are reasonable and sensible modifications to the proposed plan: <<1>> TESTIMONY PRESENTED AT THE NY CITY COUNCIL ZONING & FRANCHISES SUBCOMMITTE HEARING – SUNSET PARK RE-ZONING TUESDAY- SEPTEMBER 22, 2009 I am Corey Kulcu-Roca, a member of the Friends of Sunset Park and I reside at 521 41st Street in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. I stand before you to enlist your help in preserving the panoramic view from Sunset Park, a view like no other, a view that shines as one of the brightest jewels in New York City’s crown. Sunset Park, the park, as well as the magnificent view it affords every New Yorker, are part of this city’s patrimony and they must be cherished and preserved not only for ourselves, but for future generations. The Lenni-Lenape American Indians who tended oyster beds on Sunset Park’s shores and raised their families on the bluff where Sunset Park is sited, knew that preserving their environment was key to their own preservation. The many waves of hard-working immigrants who over the centuries and from every corner of the globe have settled, and continue to settle in Sunset Park have always recognized that it is theirs to enjoy, but also to preserve for future generations. Once the view is blocked by buildings as tall as those being proposed along Fifth (5th) and Fourth (4th) Avenues, we would have lost another iconic part of New York City, <<2>> forever. You have the power, and, we trust, the insight and the will to preserve the view from Sunset Park, as it is! We ask that you modify the proposed plan to: • Restrict building height on 5th Avenue (36th Street-50th Street) to a maximum height of 40 feet, including bulkheads; • Restrict building height elsewhere on 5th Avenue (25th- 36th Streets and 50th-65th Streets) along the area under consideration to a maximum of 50 feet, including bulkheads; • Restrict building height all along 4th Avenue to a maximum of 60 feet, including bulkheads; • Restrict building height from 39th to 41st Street, between 4th and 6th Avenues to a maximum of 40 feet, including bulkheads; • Institute a permanent moratorium on demolition of structurally-sound buildings. Preserving the view from Sunset Park and for all New Yorkers is in your hands, ladies and gentlemen of the City Council. Every child, and hard-working woman and man in Sunset Park is counting on each and every one of you to do the right thing. Thank you. Corey Kulcu-Roca, on behalf of the Friends of Sunset Park. Telephone + Fax - 718.437.1413 friendsofsunsetpark@yahoo.com <<<>>> Open the (2nd) attachment-library 1515, below, and behold a sight that each and everyone of you has a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and responsibility to preserve for our children, our children's children and the many generations to come. Once it's gone, it's gone. María Roca for Friends of Sunset Park

Don't forget to vote in the Run-off election, today!!

The Primary elections aren't over. TODAY IS THE RUN-OFF.

VOTE TODAY, TUESDAY- SEPT. 29- UNTIL 9 PM

(SAME PLACE WHERE YOU ALWAYS VOTE)

The Democratic candidates for NYC Comptroller & Public Advocate are still at it.

• David Yassky or John C. Liu for Comptroller
• Bill de Blasio or Mark Green for Public Advocate

Don't let others decide for you. Speak up Sunset Park!!

Help Needed to Catch Squirrel-napper

At around 2:40 on Friday (9/25) afternoon a guy: white, 30's, 5'9-10", +/- 150 lbs., short brown hair, and wearing tight-fitting black jeans and a black tee,- was seen crossing 41st Street, headed for 40th Street carrying a freaked-out squirrel in a trap cage. The man continued on 5th at a very fast pace, crossed 36th Street and turned East along the cemetery, stopped next to a parked car, bend down towards the car and emerged, a couple of minutes later, carrying a different and empty trap cage. He retraced his steps and was last seen on 5th Avenue, between 40th and 41st Streets.

If you see anyone Squirrel-napping in Sunset Park, call 911 and try to take their picture. Unauthorized removal of an animal from a NYC park is a crime, punishable by law! Not to mention the potential public health implications to the criminal and anyone who comes into contact with him/her.

We ask that you keep us informed so that we may be of assistance and share the situation with our readership.

Yes, Virginia, R6A has been proposed on side streets by City Planning

One and all + For the last time ____________________

1. Please go the NYC Dept. of City Planning Website
2. Click on the map at the top right-hand of page
3. Click twice on the map to enlarge
4. Seeing is believing- R6A on 40th, 41st, 61st, 58th=60th
5. Apologize to Anonymous on BViB and FoSP

People, people- do thy research before thou speaketh!