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250+ FRIENDS OF NYC PARKS
STATEMENT OF PRINCIPLES
In recent years, communities throughout
a. Transparency in the awarding of concessions through legislation that includes a lower threshold for triggering public review and legislative oversight of any such contract.
b. Assignment of monies collected from activities in parks to the maintenance and operations of City parks as an addition to, not a substitute for, city funding for parks.
c. Enforcement of the City's duty to require public participation in and legislative oversight for any proposal for the alienation of any parkland in
d. Public review and legislative oversight for any transfer of a park's management/operation to a private entity.
Carol Rinzler Carol Greitzer Carol Schachter Pat Dolan
Gary Papush
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Tim Abraham, Member, Citizens Union
Miguel Acevedo, Member, Manhattan CB4
Katrin Adam, Officer, Fulton Ferry Landing Association, Brooklyn
C. Murray Adams, President, Cobble Hill Association
Elizabeth Aivars, NYS Democratic Committee, 74th AD
Joe Amoroso, Kissena Park Civic Association
Joie A. Anderson, 300 East 77th Street Block Association
Phyllis Andrews , Union Square Community Coalition
Fred Arcaro, President, Manhattan East Community Association
J. Arndt, Manhattan
Sandra Atwell, Hollis 11423 Block Association
Leslie and James d'Auguste, Manhattan
Martin Barrett, Stuyvesant Cove Park Association
Steve Barrison, Esq., President, Bay Improvement Group
Sugar Barry, East 10th Street Block Association (4th/5th Avenues)
Corey Bearak, Esq.
Bedford Mosholu Community Association (Bronx)
Marion Bell, Member, Manhattan CB 11
Michael Benjamin, NYS Assembly, 79AD (D)
Allen J. Bennett, MD, Area 1 Chair, Queens CB 8
Marjorie Berk, Union Square Community Coalition
Big Apple Softball League
Bronson Binger, Former Assistant Commissioner./Capital Projects,
NYC Department of Parks
Leo Blackman, Manhattan
Bunnie Blei, Manhattan
Miriam Bockman, Former Vice Chair, Board of Standards & Appeals
William Borock, Council of Chelsea Block Associations [CCBA]
James F. Brennan, NYS Assembly, 44AD (D)
Meryl Brodsky, District Leader, 73AD, Part A (D)
Arline Bronzaft, Manhattan
Jack Brown, Task Force 2000
Reggie Brown, Commissioner, Big Apple Softball League
Monica Brown, Manhattan CB 11
Ruth H. Bryant, South-east Queens Concerned Neighbors
Stanley Bulbach, West 15th Street 200 Block Association
Marcus Buri, Manhattan
Scott Caplan, Manhattan
Diana Carulli, Diana Carulli Labyrinth Project
Tyler Cassell, North Flushing Civic Association
Ethel Chen, President, American Chinese Women's Association
Catherine Christer, President, Far West 10 St Block Association
Barbara M. Clark, NYS Assembly, 33AD (D)
Judy Cohen, President, North Hills Estates Civic Association
Neil Cohen, Concerned Residents of Bay Ridge
Community Board 7, The Bronx
Community Board 6, Manhattan
Community Board 11, Queens
Geoffrey Croft, NYC Park Advocates
Alberto Cruz, Co-Chair,Youth/Education/Libraries,Manhattan CB 7
Colleen Curtis, Member, Manhattan CB 6
William E. Curtis, Turtle Bay Association
Louise Dankberg, District Leader, 74AD, Part C (D), Tilden Dem. Club
Bess DeBetham, President, LDC Laurelton, Rosedale
and Springfield Gardens
Maria DeInnocentiis, Chairwoman, Civic Association Utopia Estates
Jeffrey Dinowitz, NYS Assembly, 81AD (D)
Patricia Dolan, Queens Civic Congress
Dino Dominguez, President, Liga Deportiva Estudiantil
Robert E. Doocey, Juniper Park Civic Association & Juniper Juniors
Marilyn Dorato, Waverly Bank 11 Neighbors
Al Doyle, Stuyvesant Town/Peter Cooper Village Tenants Association
Marjorie Drabkin, Women’s City Club
Tom Duane, NYS Senate, 29SD (D)
Ruth DuBerry, United Civic Association; Member, Queens CB 12
R. Frank Eadie, Member, Manhattan CB 4
Myrna Egeth, Friends of St. Vartan Park
Linda Eskenas, The North Shore Waterfront Greenbelt &
West Brighton Restoration Society
Henry Euler, Bayside Civic Database
Peter Falk, West Village Committee
Barbara Feldt, Former Park Warden; Founder & Director, Manhattan Botanical Garden
Edward M. Fischer, Queens
Florence Fisher, Queens League of Tenants
Judi Francis, President, Brooklyn Bridge Park Defense Fund
Sylvia Friedman, Former NYS Assembly, 74AD (D)
Jackie Forrestal, Hillcrest Estates Civic Association
Kevin J. Forrestal, Hillcrest Estates Civic Association
Fred Fu, President, Flushing Development Center
James Gallagher, President, Fresh Meadows Civic
Association
Sarah Woodside Gallagher, We're On First
Joy Garland, Stuyvesant Cove Park Association
Alan Gerson, NYC Council Member
Carsten Glaeser, Kissena Park Civic Association
Ed Gold, Member, Manhattan CB 2
Aida Gonzalez-Jarrin, Chair, Flushing Meadows Corona Park Conservancy
Herbert J. Gormley, Belle Harbor Property Owners Association
Dick Gottfried, NYS Assembly, 75AD (D)
Alexander "Pete" Grannis, Former NYS Assembly, 65AD (D)
Paul Graziano, Queens Civic Congress
Jonathan Greenberg, The Open Washington Square Park Coalition
Scott Greenspan, Member, Manhattan CB 6
Carol Greitzer, Former City Council Member
Lesley Nan Haberman, Headmistress,The Family Schools (Dag Hammarskjold Plaza)
Christine Howard Haider Harding Heights Civic
Jo Hamilton, Member, Manhattan CB 2
Bob Harris, President, West Cunningham Park Civic Association
Anne Hearn, Member, Manhattan CB 2
Paul Hellegers, former President, Lexington Democratic Club
Richard C. Hellenbrecht, Chair, Queens CB13
Howard Hemsley, Community Organizer
Hell's Kitchen Neighborhood Association
Michael Hirsch, Working Families Party East Side Club
Tami Hirsch, President of Civic Association of Utopia Estates
Dana Hockenbury, Washington Heights Gardening Crew
Joyce Hogi, Board Member, Bronx Council for Environmental Quality (BCEQ)
Eduardo E. Hoepelman, Member, Manhattan CB 12
Robert F. Holden, President, Juniper Park Civic Association, Inc.
Ross Horowitz, Citizens For Union Square
Brad Hoylman, Member, Manhattan CB 2
Deborah Huntington, Brooklyn
Bill Huxley, Turtle Bay Tree Fund
Jerry Iannece, Chair, Queens CB 11 & VP, Federation, Italian American Organizations/Queens
Ellen Imbimbo, Murray Hill Neighborhood Association
Anne K. Johnson, Member, Manhattan CB 3
Corey Johnson, 2nd Vice-Chair, Community Board 4, Manhattan
Garry Anthony Johnson, Member, Manhattan CB11
Joyce S. Johnson, Member, Former Chair, Manhattan CB 7
Romaine Johnson Concerned Residents of Jamica Estates
Sally Kahn, District Leader 22AD, Part B(D); Kissena Park Civic Association
Ron Kapon, Secretary, 20th Precinct Community Council
Sherrill Kazan, President, Friends of Dag Hammarskjold Plaza
Micah Kellner, NYS Assembly, 65AD (D)
Paul Kerzner, Ridgewood Property Owners & Civic Association;
Kew Gardens Hills Civic Association
Stan Koehler, Executive Director, Peace on the Street
Phil Konigsberg, Friends of Fort Totten Parks, Member, CB 7 Queens
Leah Kreger, Independent Friends of McCarren Park Inc.
David Kulick, Flushing on the Hill Civic Association
Marc Landis, District Leader, 67th AD, Part B (D); Chair, NYC chapter, Citizen Action/New York
Meg LaPorte, Manhattan
Barbara S. Larkin, Belle Harbor Property Owners
Alan Lawrence, 279 East 44 Street Tenants Association
Danyal Lawson, Piano Faculty, Greenwich House Music School
Jules Vigh Lebowitz, Manhattan
Aubrey Lees, Former Chair,Manhattan CB 2
Joan Levy, Manhattan
Laura Lopez, Member, Tilden Democratic Club
Kenn Lowy, President. Friends of Brooklyn Bridge Park
Audrey Lucas, SE Queens Concerned Neighbors
Maria A. Luna, 1st.Vice Chair NYS Democratic Committee
& District Leader 71 Ad-Pt. A
Perry Luntz, Former President, Eleanor Roosevelt Democratic Club
Donald Clark MacPherson, Publisher, SoHo Journal
William Manigault, Dunton Block Civic Association
Glenn McAnamama, Upper Green Side
Dirk McCall, Astoria
Beverly McDermott, President, Kissena Park Civic Association
Rita L. McKee, Member, Manhattan CB 12
Jessie McNab, Co-President, West Village Committee
Grace Meng, Esq., FOCUS (Friends/Community Unite and Serve)
Rafael Merino, Chair, Economic Development, Manhattan CB 11
Andra Miller, President, New York Society for Ethical Culture
Linda S. Mitchell, Hollis Park Gardens Association
Peter Morley. Secretary, Big Apple Softball League
Philip Mouquinho, Member, CB 2 Manhattan
Eve Moser, Union Square Community Coalition
Fay Muir, Bronx Environmental Health and Justice
Marion Newman, Kissena Park Civic Association
Eliza Nichols, Manhattan
Stan Norwalk, Member , Board of Directors, Kew Gardens Hills Civic Association
Charles Ober, Ridgewood Property Owners Association
Kim Ohanian, Parks Chair, Queens CB 7
Steven Orlow, Queens, Former Councilmember at Large
Marina Ortiz, East Harlem Preservation
Tamara Osherov, Meadowlark Gardens
Nick Pandazis, Kathryn Pandazis, Station Road Civic
Gary Papush, Chair, Parks and Landmarks, Manhattan CB 6
The Rev. Joe Parrish, Manhattan
Tom Payne, Citizen
Simon Pelman, Member, Queens CB 8
Nick Perry, NYS Assembly, 58AD (D)
Irene Peveri, Co-Chair, East Side Rezoning Alliance
Jonathan and Madelaine Piel, Henderson Place Historic District Association
Jo-Ann Polise, Stuyvesant Town
Boomie Pinter, President, West Lawrence Civic Association & Vice-Chair Queens CB 14
Morton Povman, Former City Councilmember
Jerome Poynton, M.A., Recreation and Parks Administration
David M. Quintana, Member, Queens CB 10; Highland Park/Ridgewood Reservoir Alliance; South Queens Democratic Club
Ernest Raab, Union Square Community Coalition.
Donna Rakitzas, Station Road Civic Association
Lois Rakoff, Bleecker Area Merchants & Residents Association (BAMRA)
Anne Raphael, District Leader, 67 Part B(D); Member, Manhattan CB 7
David B. Reck, Friends of Hudson Square
Thomas L. Rich, Manhattan
Margery Reifler, Grove Street Block Association
Carol Rinzler, former Co-Chair, Manhattan Neighborhood Council
Lou Rispoli, President, 41-36 51st Street Owners Corp.(Woodside)
Marcia Robinson, Past-President, Member, Samuel J. Tilden Democratic Club
Eugene Rodriguez, Member, Manhattan CB 11; CEO, PRIDE (Puerto Rican Intercultural Drama Ensemble)
Kay Rogers (and extended family)
Annette Rosen, Women’s City Club
Carl Rosenstein, Trees Not Trucks
Raul Rothblatt, Central Brooklyn Independent Democrats
John Rozankowski, Friends of Poe Park
Margie Rubin, Disabled in Action
Eugenia Rudman, President, Hollis Park Gardens Association
Jacob Ruppert, of counsel, Kew Gardens Hills Civic Association
Jeannie Sakol, Friends of Detmold Park
Anna Sawaryn, Coalition to Save the East Village (CSEV)
Isaac Sasson, Holly Civic
Frank Scala, District Leader,74AD (R)
Carol Schachter, President, Stuyvesant Park Neighborhood Assoc.
Jon Schachter, Member, Bellevue Hospital CAB;Public Member, Manhattan CB 5 & 6
Paula Schaeffer, Tilden Democratic Club
Gabriele Schmitt, Jamaica Hill Community Association
Warren Schreiber, Bay Terrace Community Alliance
Arthur Schwartz, Chair, Parks and Waterfront, Manhattan CB 2
Betty Schwartz, Public Member, Manhattan CB 6
Seymour Schwartz, Briarwood Community Association
Shirley Secunda, Member, Manhattan CB 2
Edy Selman, Emergency Community.Organization to Save Washington Square Park
Edith Shanker, Campaign to Save Union Square Park.
Sandro Sherrod, Chair, Health/Senior/Disabilities,Manhattan CB 6
Joanne Simon, Democratic District Leader, 52nd AD
Jean C. Silva, Commissioner, NYC Softball.com
William Simpkins, Member, Community Board 9, Manhattan
Simone Sindin, President/Board, Coliseum Park Apartments
Harbachan Singh,President, Sikh American Friendship Foundation; Member, Queens CB 8
Teri Slater, Chair, East 78th Street Block Association (Park/Lex)
Susan Slocum, Housing Advocate, Manhattan
J. Richard Smith, Parks Chair, Queens CB 9
Elizabeth Starkey, Former Chair, Manhattan CB7, Co-chair of Green Committee
Station Road Civic Association (Auburndale)
Norma Stegmaier, Kew Gardens Hills Civic Association
Ted Story, West 11 Street Association
Sean Sweeney, SoHo Alliance
Carlos Talisaysay. Member, Queens CB 7
Jack Taylor, Board Member, Union Square Community Coalition
Martha Taylor, Jamaica Estates Association
Frank Toner, President, Rocky Hill Civic Association
Teresa Toro, Brooklyn
Julie Torres, New York Democratic County Committee
Joyce Tosti, Community Associate, Queens CB 13
Taina Traverso, Advocate for Female Trees
James A. Trent, Queens Civic Congress
Mel Siegel, President, Broadway Flushing Homeowners Association
Bob Stone, Vice President, Willowtown Association (Brooklyn Heights)
Aldona Vaiciunas, President & Nicholas Evans-Cato, Vice-president,
Vinegar Hill Neighborhood Association
Annie Vanrenterghem-Raven, Member, Manhattan CB 2
Roland G. Wade & Myra B. Herce, Co-chairs, Kissena Corridor Park Conservancy
Nancy Walby, Parks Chairs, Brooklyn CB 18
Sean M. Walsh, Past President, Queens Civic Congress
George Watson, Co-Chair, Chelsea-Village Partnership
Wilbur A. Weder, Chair, Legislative Committee, Bellevue Hospital Center
Community Advisory Board; Member, Manhattan CB 6
Edwin Westley, Jackson Heights Beautification Group; Member,Queens CB 3
Christina Wilkinson, Chair, Committee to Save St. Saviour's & Newtown
Historical Society
Sharon Woolums, Public Member, Manhattan CB 2 Parks Committee
Dorothy Woo, Holly Civic Association
Alexander Wood, Disabilities Network of NYC
Kate Wood & Arlene Simon, Landmark West!
Anthony Yacub-Parson, Queens
Phyllis Yampolsky, President, McCarren Park Conservancy
Esther Yang, Yang Family Associations
Joan Zimmerman. President, Fulton Ferry Landing Association
Bob Zuckerman, Member, Community Board 6, Brooklyn
