Summer of Protest on the West Side
To the Editor:
Developers' plans to overcrowd Park West Village ("Ready or Not, a Neighborhood Gets a Makeover," June 11), to divide our diverse community into separate and unequal parts, have sparked a Boston Tea Party on the Upper West Side. Renters and condo owners from Central Park West to Riverside Drive are gearing up for a summer of protests against accelerated overdevelopment. Middle-class and working families must be able to establish and keep their homes in Manhattan.
We call on the mayor to grant Park West Village the designation of a Special Planned Community Preservation District. Built on land obtained with taxpayers' money for the common good, Park West Village has been a de facto special planned community for decades. Failure to preserve, protect and defend our neighborhood would be a betrayal of the public trust.
Cathy Unsino
Upper West Side
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