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Pride In Canarsie - Pride In Our Pier
Since the publication of my remarks in the Courier last week regarding Canarsie Pier, my office has been repeatedly contacted by our neighbors and friends echoing those very same thoughts. All too often it is very difficult to rally the troops, so to speak, to ensure that we are acting together to protect the few natural resources our community has left to enjoy. Our pier is sacred to us for reasons that anyone living in Canarsie already knows. Let me assure you that I have been in constant conversation with my colleagues in government, and together we will find a solution. However, by solution I do not mean finding funds by restricting usage, and I certainly do not mean closing the park to vehicular traffic at dusk. While I hope that such points were heard by park authorities in the conversations thus far we will go all the way to Washington if necessary to make that point clear. I have heard the discussions both around our community and at the meeting held with the National Park Service last week at the Hebrew Educational Society building, and this is one of those times where we must draw that line in the sand and fight for the precious few places our community has to recreate. Our community has been asked to settle for substandard service on far too many issues, and we must do everything in our power to prevent our pier from being resigned to such a fate. I look at the responsiveness our community has shown to my office regarding Canarsie Pier and hope that this is the beginning of renewed activism in our community, because we will need that kind of passion to fulfill our community's destiny. Our great city speaks of the development of the West Side Rail Yards, the resurrection of Coney Island, and the construction of a sports stadium in Downtown us Brooklyn, we must make sure that our various governmental agencies and legislative bodies hear us say with all necessary zeal, REMEMBER CANARSIE, REMEMBER CANARSIE, REMEMBER CANARSIE.
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