Join in Monday’s parent-led Zoom Townhall with legal and environmental experts October 18 @ 6:30PM

Still confused about what’s happening and what to expect at 250 Water Street? Finally, get the answers you need, and learn how to take action.

Featured Expert Panelists:

• Licensed Professional Environmental Engineer, Keith Brodock

• Experienced Environmental and Land Use Attorney, Reed Super

• Professor Emerita of Lehman College, City University of New York, Board Director for NYCGrow, and Expert Witness on noise impacts, Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D. 

Register in advance for this meeting:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUudO2vpz8pHtdVQvvE1lLjDHqq4SZLXLGA

(After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.)

9/21         Environmental Protection Committee – 6:00 PM

Location: Live Remote Meetings  - https://live.mcb1.nyc

250 Water Street Brownfield Cleanup Program Remedial Action Work Plan (RAWP) - Presentation by New York State Department of Environmental Conservation & Langan Engineering

"Just say NO!" Press Conference: Join us!

WHEN: Tomorrow, Tuesday, September 14 at 2:50 PM (directly after school dismissal)
WHERE: Peck Slip Play Street
WHAT: A Press Conference

READ OUR PRESS RELEASE

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Comptroller Scott Stringer and our District Leaders will join parent organizers of the parent-led coalition, Children First, at a press conference calling for the safety and well-being of school children attending school across from a toxic lot at 250 Water Street in the Historic Seaport District. The community is calling out developer Howard Hughes Corporation for its reckless endangerment of the Peck Slip and Blue School children, neighbors, and seniors at Southbridge Towers, as well as the entire Seaport Historic District. Please join us!

Location: TBD

Community Board members, applicants and public members are required to attend in person.

The public is encouraged to use webex via https://live.mcb1.nyc due to acute capacity constraints.

7/26      Environmental Protection Committee – 6:00 PM
Location: Manhattan Borough President’s Office - 1 Centre Street, 19th Floor Southside, Entrance on the South side of building. Community Board members, applicants and public members are required to attend in person.

The public is encouraged to use webex via https://live.mcb1.nyc  due to acute capacity constraints.

1. 250 Water Street Brownfield Cleanup Program and Remedial Action Work Plan - Report by Lawra Dodge, President, Excel Environmental Resources, Inc.

1. 250 Water Street Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) - Presentation by Saul Scherl, Howard Hughes Corporation; Adam Meister, Howard Hughes Corporation, Wesley O’Brien, Fried Frank & Charlie Fields, AKRF

Send a NEW email in opposition By Friday April 2 @ NOON

TO: testimony@lpc.nyc.gov and richstein@lpc.nyc.govcc: seaportstacey@gmail.com and info@childrenfirstnyc.org

SUBJECT LINE: docket number / address: 250 Water Street LPC-21-03235

Simply say:
"I oppose the new design at 250 Water Street"

250 Water Street - Howard Hughes will present a revised application to construct a new building on the 250 Water Street parking lot - Discussion & Possible Resolution

 Location:  Live Remote Meetings - https://live.mcb1.nyc/

1. 250 Water Street Brownfield Cleanup Program - Update by Lawra Dodge, President, Excel Environmental Resources, Inc.

2. 250 Water Street, Draft Scope of Work for an Environmental Impact Statement (CEQR No. 21DCP084M ) - Discussion with Howard Hughes Corporation

Click here for the Draft Scope of Work.

The Historic Seaport, birthplace of our beloved City, needs your voice on Tuesday, January 5th
Building two 400+ feet towers at 250 Water Street will bring years of toxic clean-up, noise, dust, heavy machinery, and other hazards with grave consequences for our children.  But at this hearing, the Landmarks Preservation Committee (LPC) wants to hear about your love for the Historic Seaport. 

LIVE TESTIMONY:
What – Landmarks and Preservation Commission (LPC)
When:  Tuesday, January 5, 2021
Time: 10:00 AM (the presentation may take a while, so keep it on in the background and hop on when your name is called!)
Where: links and passwords will be available on Monday January 4th – here - https://www1.nyc.gov/site/lpc/hearings/hearings.page

Please remember to keep comments on how the design, height, proportion, and bulk of the building will overwhelm the surrounding 4 and 5 story buildings. LPC is most concerned with how this proposed building will (not!) fit into the architectural and historical character of the Seaport Historic District.

 January 5, 2021 Public Meeting Overview

• Public Hearing/Meeting Agenda is available here

• Applicant presentations are available here

• The livestream will be available on our YouTube channel here

• Sign up to speak here

• Send written testimony to testimony@lpc.nyc.gov (written testimony is accepted until 12 noon on the Monday before the Tuesday hearing/meeting, but we strongly recommend submitting by 5 PM on the Friday before the hearing)

• See instructions for participating in our virtual public hearings here.

Scoping meetings give the public a voice in a proposal's environmental impact statement, a document disclosing environmental impacts and mitigation.

How to Participate
Links to watch or join the meeting online, and dial-in information to participate from any phone, will be posted in advance of the meeting.

Submit Written Comments
Please email comments to 21DCP084M_DL@planning.nyc.gov.

We must raise objections now! Otherwise Howard Hughes Corporation (HHC) will destroy current zoning laws and Historic District protections put in place by our community to preserve this special neighborhood: the birthplace of our city. 

If we don’t act, starting next year - as kids are finally in school full-time working to make up for a year and half of educational and emotional deficits due to the pandemic - HHC will begin the  5+ year construction of two wildly out-of-scale 470-foot tall towers. Peck Slip and Blue School students would be subjected to half a decade of heavy construction on the acre-wide site directly across the street from these schools. Our playstreets, roofdeck playspace and streets will be overrun with dangerous high-rise cranes, construction trucks, and pile drivers; dust, debris and constant noise.  

During this global pandemic, as we work at holding homeschooling, jobs, and our finances together -  Howard Hughes Corporation is lobbying OUR local representatives to get permission to harm our children by throwing out the low-scale zoning laws that govern the neighborhood.  

THIS IS NOT A DONE DEAL - YOU CAN HELP OUR HISTORIC NEIGHBORHOOD AND PROTECT OUR CHILDREN. Make sure your voice is heard at all community board meetings going forward.

HOW TO ATTEND THIS MEETING: Live Remote Meetings - https://live.mcb1.nyc, where you can also register to speak in advance

Lawra Dodge, Independent Community Monitor, will present the findings of the Remedial Investigation. These findings will guide safety protocols that will be implemented during the remediation. *We know that high levels of mercury were once again found in the soil by the thermometer factories*

HOW TO ATTEND THIS MEETING: Live Remote Meetings - https://live.mcb1.nyc

Last day to submit comments for the RIWP and CPP.

Representatives from the DEC and DOH will speak on the draft Remedial Investigation Work Plan and Citizen Participation Plan. Please attend to learn more about the proposal to break ground at 250 Water Street.

Children First will meet with the DEC, the state agency overseeing the Brownfield Application for 250 Water Street. We urge the DEC not to consider the application until Howard Hughes Corporation obtains approved plans from New York City to develop on the site.

Mercury expert Dr. Anthony Carpi, Professor of Environmental Toxicology, John Jay College will present at Community Board 1. Dr. Carpi will lead a discussion on mercury and other environmental toxins that are present at 250 Water Street.

March with us to send a message to Howard Hughes Corporation that our children’s health should come before corporate development. We will march to Pier 17, in front of Howard Hughes Corporation’s Annual Shareholder Meeting.

Please note the location: Pier 17 - South Street, 4th Floor (Pier 17 appears on Google Maps at 89 South Street while it appears on Apple Maps at 95 South Street)

Howard Hughes Corporation is hosting a Town Hall to present on the development of 250 Water Street. We strongly encourage all parents and community members to attend and represent the interests of the community. No registration is necessary.

We understand that Howard Hughes and Langan Engineering will share a presentation on the environmental investigation and remediation process planned for 250 Water Street, with information about the Brownfield Cleanup Program. A Q&A session for community members is expected to follow.

Questions? Email: info@childrenfirstnyc.org