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Rally planned in favor of New York’s Hudson Yards casino project


22nd October 2024
By Frank Legato

The “We Build” rally, set for Thursday (24 October), is meant to counter recent efforts by the nonprofit “Protect the High Line.” The neighborhood group wants to defeat the project. Conversely, opposition says it would ruin the views afforded by the current High Line Park. The park provides an urban parkland vista over Hudson Yards, a former railroad facility.

Gary LaBarbera blasted the group’s efforts to derail the project in a letter published by the New York Post. LaBarbera, president of the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York, wrote a letter to his union affiliates.

Please join me with your members on October 24, 2024, at 555 West 18th Street at 3:30pm to raise our voices, call out the truth and send a message to elected officials that we will no longer be silent and that career opportunities, pathways to the middle class are simply more important than a few minutes of shade!!” wrote LaBarbera.

In addition, LeBarbera wrote an October letter to Friends of the Highline executive director Alan van Cappelle. In that letter, LeBarbera wrote,“We appreciate the experience of the High Line. However, we cannot let the fact that a new building may create new shadows prevent our city from moving forward. We live in a vertical city. We must continue to build. We must continue creating opportunities for our city’s residents, including residents of this community, to earn a middle-class lifestyle. We must raise our voices and be heard.

“Too often the will of the powerful few overcome the interests of the many. We cannot stand down and let this continue.”

https://nypost.com/2024/10/21/us-new...gh-line-elite/

NYC mega-casino plan pits hard hats vs. High Line ‘elite’ — as poll reveals what voters think

By Carl Campanile
Oct. 21, 2024

Friends of the High Line, dumbfounded by the attack, released a poll Monday showing strong opposition from West Side voters to the mega casino development as currently designed.

The plan features an 80-story tower overlooking the Hudson River that would house a casino and hotel. Office buildings, apartment towers and a spacious 5.6-acre park would surround the gleaming casino skyscraper.

…. the Friends of the High Line survey found that 56% of West Side voters oppose the proposed zoning changes that would allow for the casino project over the Western Rail Yards, while only 24% support it.

Another 70% of voters say that placing a new 6 million square-foot development with a casino and three new skyscrapers directly adjacent to the northern part of The High Line would hurt neighboring West Side communities.

“New Yorkers want to see responsible development that respects our existing community commitments,” van Capelle said.