GOOD NEWS ???? GOLF COURSE AND 2 PARKS
BUT STILL NO WATER MONITORING WELLS IN THE EAST RIVER TO MEASURE THE KNOWN TOXIC LEACHATE FROM THIS SITE !!!!
Note: The following is an opinion by Dorothea Poggi based on research:
At least a qualified developer has been chosen by Mayor bloomberg to complete the ill fated Course this time.
Sandford Golf Design has done a wonderful job on the Granite Links Course in Mass.
This is supposed to happen using Mayoral Funds (our tax dollars). This is not a Project that the city will probably ever make money on. It is a project that had an agenda seperate from making money from the beginning.
It seems so far that they are going to continue with the second design which had eliminated the 200 mature trees, ponds, and public access snack bar with restroom.
The existing design has Jack Nicklaus's name on it but was not really designed by him according to a statement made by a Parks Representative at a Parks Committee Meeting of Com. Bd.10 .
Park Advocates have listed a few very important objections to this site.
1.Now Water Monitoring wells in the East River to measure the contaminents entering the river through under ground stream that are known to flow from Westchester through to the East River beneath the site.
2. There has not been a ful EIS of this site from the beginning
3. There is no proposed Capping with inpermeable clay of this site in the existing plans.
4. this site was not a garbage dump that was lined with rubber to prevent migration of the toxic leachate into neighboring yards, gardens, rivers etc. This site did not have dirt placed between each layer as many of the later garbage fills had.
5. The non specific run off was not addressed throughout the 8 years of the filling process and the surrounding area may contain toxins at this point.
6. Before and Throughout this construction water has flowed from the site over the sidewalk and into the catch basins that add to oour Sewer water overflow problems and this water has not been tested as far as the public knows.
8. The Community of Throggs Neck is in desperate need of some nice fields for their children to have organized Sports on. Youth teams are looking for fields all the time. Many hoped that there would be enough room on the 220 acres to include a few fields as well as the golf course. One less Mountain of Debris here and there would allow for a field here or there.
9. Many are afraid that since much of the Croton and Yankee stadium debris is deposited here that this new construction may be another ploy to have a cheap convenient place for the City Subcontractors to dump the fill from the new proposed Hotel connected with the Yankee Stadium Project. This would mean higher Mountains and not necessarily a Golf Course in the end.
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More to come
check out the links below for info on similiar golf problems
www. landfillgolf .com/history.htm This is a great site about landfill becoming Golf Courses and the problems faced.
www. landfillgolf .com/research.htm More research
www.gfredlee.com/lf_reuse.htm I forgot what this one was but I'll check it out and get back to you.
www. golf inlondon.co.uk/my-humps-my-humps-my-lovely- landfill -humps
This link is about the profit to be made by adding mountains of debris to already existing Golf Courses in London
but the problem is global including NYC.
http://basildongolfcourselp.com/
This link is a protest to the lumps and bumps for a profit and not for the sake of the course.
Sites about the Toxins added to the environment by golf Courses that are not even on toxic sites:
http://www.wtv-zone.com/infchoice/toxic_greens.html
http://www.shns.com/shns/g_index2.cfm?action=detail&pk=GOLFCOURSE-04-22-04
http://www.oag.state.ny.us/environment/golf95.html
http://www.ecomall.com/greenshopping/toxicgolf.htm
http://www.1hope.org/rc-tox.htm
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NY TIMES Monday, June 16, 2008 N. Y./Region
Talks Focus on Bronx Golf Course
By Sewell Chan
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and City Comptroller William C. Thompson Jr. announced on Monday that the city had begun talking with Sanford Golf Design to design and build a championship-caliber golf course over a former garbage dump at Ferry Point Park in the Bronx, potentially giving new life to a project that has been dogged by years of delay and controversy. The project’s price tag has nearly quadrupled since it was proposed in 1998, to well over $80 million, by one estimate.
The proposed 18-hole, links-style Jack Nicklaus Signature Golf Course would be built using city capital funds, with an estimated completion by the fall of 2010. A public hearing on the proposal has been scheduled for 10 a.m. on June 26, 22 Reade Street in Manhattan. After construction has begun, the city plans to seek proposals from businesses to operate the golf course and make additional improvements, including a clubhouse and restaurant.
However, New York City Park Advocates, a community group that has often been critical of the Parks Department, quickly issued a statement criticizing the proposed deal. The group said that the city had not completed a study of the project’s environmental impact, noting that the site included a former landfill.
The project has a long and troubled history.
In 1998, during the administration of Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, the Parks Department announced plans to have a developer, Ferry Point Partners, build a golf course. It would have received a 35-year lease in exchange for financing the $22 million project, which was to be completed by 2001. The 222-acre site called for a driving range, a clubhouse, two playgrounds, a banquet hall and a restaurant overlooking the East River, as well as a waterfront esplanade.
But in 2006, after more than six years of delays, the Parks Department announced that it would cancel the the contract, because it claimed the terms of the agreement were not being fulfilled. By then, the estimated cost had risen to $84 million, from $22.4 million in 1998.
Then, in 2007, Mr. Thompson’s office issued a highly critical audit, finding that the Department of Parks and Recreation had paid Ferry Point Partners $7.24 million for the cleanup work, even though the work only had cost only $1.26 million. (The Parks Department disputed the findings of the audit.)
New York City Park Advocates described the project as a debacle, saying it would still cost $64 million to go through with the project. “How many decades, if ever, will it take the city to make back its investment?” the group asked in a news release.
Despite those objections, the Bloomberg administration announced early this year that it would go through the construction of the golf course, and in a statement today, the mayor did not speak to the project’s past problems.
“The city is another step closer to hiring the team that will design and construct the course on top of the foundation already in place, eventually creating another world-class amenity for New Yorkers and visitors to enjoy,” the mayor said. “A links course in the Bronx will be a great addition to the public parkland courses already in place.”
Mr. Thompson also gave his endorsement to the new effort. “While I have in the past expressed concerns about delays, I am pleased that the city recognizes that it is in the interest of all New Yorkers to quickly move forward to ensure that the goal of turning this former municipal landfill into an attractive recreational destination is accomplished,” he said in a statement.
Councilman James Vacca, a Bronx Democrat whose district includes Ferry Point Park, also expressed support for the project.
Located near the Whitestone Bridge, the park is bounded by the Hutchinson River Parkway, the East River, Schley Avenue, Emerson Avenue and Balcony Avenue.
In addition to the golf course, the area is to include two other parks: a 7-acre community park that will include a Little League and a junior baseball field, basketball courts, a play area for children and a pedestrian trail; and a 20-acre waterfront promenade with views of the Long Island Sound/
Golf Course Height 2005
No mature trees will be planted, how do you block out the Whitesstone cinema billboard?
with thousands of tons of dirt which you collect $ for.
2007 Some photos are missing we will replace soon....
http://www.gothamgazette.com/print/320 bloomberg is proud to address the brownfield of ferry point golf
Press Releases
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
No. 23
http://www.nyc.gov/parks
Ferry Point Golf Course Term Approved by FCRC
Today, the Franchise and Concession Review Committee (FCRC) unanimously authorized the Department of Parks & Recreation to issue a Request for Proposals for the development, operation and maintenance of an 18-hole golf course facility and ancillary facilities at Ferry Point Park in the Bronx with a license term of thirty-five (35) years. The Department of Parks will proceed with the RFP after giving thirty days’ notice to the local Community Board. "With its action today, the FCRC has allowed Parks to restart the phased development of Ferry Point Park in the Bronx," said Parks & Recreation Commissioner Adrian Benepe. "We look forward to providing a premier golf course and two new public parks to realize the long-envisioned plans for this new park development." The Parks Department will begin designing and developing two new parks at Ferry Point to open in 2009. The first phase will include a 7.5-acre community park on the eastern end of Ferry Point Park that will likely include a new ball field, tot lot, playground, basketball court and nature trail. Next, Parks will develop a 19-acre waterfront park on the southern edge of the property that will feature a promenade with breathtaking views of the East River, city skylines and the Whitestone and Throgs Neck Bridges. - 30 - |
| CONTACT: Warner Johnston (212) 360-1311 |
At the Com. Board 10 Parks & Rec. Com. Meeting Mon. Jan 8th 2008, Virginia Gallagher long time chairperson for the committee, (now Chairperson for District), took the place of our new, (absent chairperson) Pat, and absent Kenneth Kearns, and proceeded to state that the Parks Department has responded to questions from the Com. Bd. about the future of the Golf course with their usual placating responses of,: yes you will be involved every step of the way...we want a golf course there...there was a letter requesting other ventures but that was denied to continue the plans for a golf course....
Leslie Lowe gave us a call to tell us that she got the same info from the Parks Dept.Basically they have made people understand that they had hopes of a course and that they were as surprised as everyone else that it has taken so long.
From what I have been hearing from surrounding residents on Emerson and Balcolm, there is a feeling that a fraud by misleading elected officials, realty companies and builders has occured....
the 50 units of housing that were sold as parkview estates, were over priced due to the promise of a future golf course....the Bronx times Reporter continuously printed headlines that were favorable about the Future golf course. Many negative situations were eliminated from meetings and articles published in the community.
Now the 50 homes definately have a "Park View" the view is of a 30 foot mountain of dirt that according the to plans is not going to be leveled to give them a view of anything except that mound of dirt. If they stand on their roof they may be able to see the previous view that they had when they purchased these homes. The water, bridge, and "Park"golf course area with the skyline of manhattan in the distance. There is supposed to be an opening on that side to allow trucks delivering supplies to the future convention/banquet hall. maybe they will get a view of that from the East side??? ATV vehicles are running rampart throughout the hills stirring up dirt and making noise that is not what they purchsed as well.
The required replacement of 200 mature Parks Dept. Property trees that were included in the original plan (that was shown to the community) were eliminated with no warning to the community when the design was changed to a"links" course by the developer and then Councilwoman Madeline Provenzano.
The ammenity for the disruption of our community that was to be open to the public (a snack bar with a restroom) was eliminated with no warning to the community when the design was changed to a"links" course by the developer and then Councilwoman Madeline Provenzano.
The ammenity to enlarge the ballfield and basketball courts for the Throggs Neck Houses that were destroyed on Balcolm had a deadline that was never met by the developer and New Councilman James Vacca .
This whole process has been riddled with promises, lies, and disappointments for the community, I hope the City of NY is benefitting enough to have been worth it instead of just a few greedy people.
Some of our members have seem many of the trucks coming from Croton Water projecta nd the Yankee Statium project. If that is true, we will probably have a huge mountain before they are done with the newly announced Hotel that will need to clear and area and dig down as well. NYC (subcontractors) will need a place to dump more construction debris and dirt at a cheap and convenient place. I guess they will just change the plans to "need" more fill.
New York Post
MEGA-GOLF PROJECT IN THE ROUGH
By DAVID SEIFMAN
December 17, 2006 -- THE Parks Department has postponed plans to find a
new developer for Ferry Point Park Golf Course in The Bronx, a project
first announced in 1998 and still nowhere near completion.
Parks officials had hoped to persuade the Franchise Concession and
Review Board last week to approve a new request for proposals for the
222-acre site under the
and the city decided to split.
But the item was unexpectedly yanked from the calendar.
Parks spokesman Warner Johnston said the delay was routine and designed
to give the agency another month or two to negotiate a severance pact
with Ferry Point Partners, selected during the Giuliani administration
to build what were supposed to become the city's most spectacular fairways.
"We are not taking the issue to the FCRC for approval until we are
sufficiently far along" in termination discussions with Ferry Point
Partners,
But Jeff Simmons, a spokesman for Comptroller Bill Thompson, who sits on
the franchise board, said: "We raised questions with Parks about the scope of the new [request for a proposal] and the reason for the termination of the existing contractors. We did not receive that information and were thereafter informed this would not be on the
agenda."
The city has already reimbursed Ferry Point Partners $7.2 million under a contract that requires it to pick up "remediation costs" of the site, an old landfill that wasn't properly capped. One source said the tab to taxpayers could reach $15 million. Construction costs, once estimated at $22.4 million, are now pegged at $80 million to $100 million. Thompson began an audit of the deal in the fall.
IN 2001, a portion of Ferry Point Park in the Bronx seemed poised for a Cinderella-like transformation from desolate former garbage dump to country-club-quality golf course. The plain of dirt wasn’t much to look at, but Edwin Rodriguez, a 41-year-old police officer with a football player’s physique, was sure that it would soon be spectacular.
Mr. Rodriguez lived in Throgs Neck and kept tabs on new construction in his quiet waterfront neighborhood. Two-family houses were mushrooming there, especially along the border of the planned golf course.
Seeking both a new place to live and some investments, Mr. Rodriguez researched the value of houses next to other municipal golf courses. Impressed to discover that houses near the Clearview Park golf course in Bayside, Queens, went for $1 million, he decided to buy.
When he applied for a mortgage, he displayed clippings about the Ferry Point Park golf course to convince the bank that his idea was sound. The bank agreed, and for about $400,000 each, he bought three white-brick, two-family houses on Miles Avenue across from the forthcoming golf course. Two cousins of his also bought houses adjoining the park.
“They were expensive at the time, more than regular price,” Mr. Rodriguez said the other day as he walked along the park’s craggy, unkempt border. Similar houses not near the golf course, he noted, cost around $325,000.
Mr. Rodriguez moved into one of his houses and rented out the other two. Over the next five years, he installed a sprinkler system in his little front garden, put marble countertops in the kitchen and got married.
But he is still waiting for the golf course. If he stands in his driveway, he can see the bizarre craters and plateaus that make a moonscape across from his house, right where the manicured green expanse of the 15th fairway should be.
This month, another setback occurred: The city announced that it was ending its contract with the developer.
“This whole area was inflated because of the golf course,” Mr. Rodriguez said. “Now we’re left hanging completely.”
The plan for Ferry Point Park was announced, with fanfare, in 1998. The city granted the developer, Ferry Point Partners, a 35-year lease in exchange for financing the $22 million project. The course was to be designed by none other than Jack Nicklaus, the golf legend, who designed courses in such un-Bronx locations as Lanai City, Hawaii, and Port St. Lucie, Fla.
In addition to the course, which was scheduled to open in 2001, plans for the 222-acre site called for a driving range, a clubhouse, two playgrounds, a banquet hall and a restaurant overlooking the East River. A handsome esplanade would grace the waterfront, and an elegant circular drive would lead to the banquet hall. It all sounded gorgeous.
But construction proceeded fitfully. In 2001, the city’s Department of Environmental Conservation halted work for a year because the developer had brought in more landfill than authorized.
By the time the Parks Department announced it was ending the contract, because it said the terms of the agreement were not being fulfilled, the estimated cost had ballooned to more than $80 million, the completion date had been pushed to 2009, and nearly 2 million cubic yards of fill had been dumped at the site.
At the time, the developer’s chief operating officer, J. Pierre Gagne, said that government rules and rising costs had made the project impractical, but that a change in terms might revive his interest.
According to Warner Johnston, a Parks Department spokesman, the plan is not dead and the city will seek a new partner to complete the project by fall 2009.
But after years of disappointment, neighbors have grown skeptical.
Louie Cruz, a firefighter who is a tenant of Mr. Rodriguez, had bought little golf clubs and balls for his two children, Jacqueline and Louie Jr., when he moved to Throgs Neck in 2001. Now the children are 17 and 14.
And Mr. Rodriguez, whose wife, Denise, is expecting their first child in June, has few expectations that anyone will be driving golf balls on the site anytime soon.
“I try to envision the golf course,” he said the other day, pointing to the giant mounds that obscure his nice view of the Manhattan skyline. “But all they kept doing was bringing mountains of dirt. I’ll be in a nursing home before this golf course is complete.”
10/30/06 NY POST: Ferry Point Partners LLC, Pierre Gagne is no longer the Contractor for this Project.
10/4/06 NY DAILY NEWS: FBI wiretapes connecting 2 contruction Companies dumping at this site may have caused it's developer to be let go.
11/3/06 NY TIMES: But Pierre Gagne who left in an amiable way with the Parks Depart. may rebid on it again if the contract is restructured to be more profitable.
12/17/06 NY Post: NYC Parks Franchise Concession & Review Board wants answers before allowing more bids on Golf Course (off the calendar)
7 YEARS OF LANDFILL WITHIN NYC LIMITS
"Average Golf Course throughout the world takes 18 Months to Construct".
The Whitestone Bridge took 32 Months to build.
LET'S NOT BE MISLED TO THINK THIS PROJECT IS STOPPED….IT IS NOT...
Read between the lines on the last paragraph.......
November 3, 2006
City Ends Deal With Developer of a Long-Delayed Golf Course
NY TIMES
The idea was as simple as it was bold: Take a former garbage dump in a corner of the eastern Bronx and turn it into a championship-caliber golf course designed by Jack Nicklaus where Tiger Woods might tee off one day. (comment: True)
But in the eight years since the Giuliani administration awarded a contract to a developer (who had no background or portfolio for such a large project) to transform the 222-acre site in
Yesterday, the Parks Department announced that it had terminated its agreement with Ferry Point Partners, throwing into doubt the future of the golf course project and leaving Throgs Neck residents worrying what might happen next.
“We’ve agreed to end the contract, as the terms could not be fulfilled,” said Warner Johnston, a Parks Department spokesman. The news was reported yesterday in The New York Post. City officials said the city would open the project to new bidders within the next few months.
(comment: why???? do you here this often??? someone is contracted to do something and walks away after 7 years amicably??? isn't there usually a law suit???)
The golf course was originally scheduled to open in 2001, but its opening date was pushed back, most recently to 2009. Over the years, the estimated cost rose to $84 million from $22.4 million in 1998.
During that time, nearly two million cubic yards of dirt were dumped at the site, creating giant mounds on the area. One cubic yard is equal to about 202 gallons.
People bought homes for as much as $500,000 across the street from the landfill in anticipation of its transformation into a top-notch public course where a round of golf would have cost as much as $150.
But given the years of delays, Dorothy Poggi, president of Ferry Point Advocates, said the contract termination was not unexpected. “This was the only outcome that could have happened, so I’m not surprised,” said Ms. Poggi, a longtime opponent of the plan.
At various times, Ferry Point Partners has enlisted several high-powered officials to support its cause, including Rudy Washington and Robert Harding, who were deputy mayors under Rudolph W. Giuliani, and Edward C. Wallace, a former city councilman.
J. Pierre Gagne, the chief operating officer of Ferry Point Partners, said yesterday that stringent government regulations had been the primary cause of his group’s problems. He said that as the cost of the golf course increased, the deal no longer made economic sense.
Mr. Gagne, who said his group had spent more than $20 million on the *golf course, said he would be willing to bid on the project again if it were restructured.
“We can’t be faulted, and the city can’t be faulted,” he said. “I want to finish what I started.”
| Links project voided after News' report Daily News 11/3/06 |
| BY BILL EGBERT DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER |
The city Department of Parks and Recreation quietly took a mulligan on the project, voiding its contract and officially citing repeated delays as the reason. Parks plans to issue a new request for proposals to finish the golf course and adjacent parks. Back in 1998, then-mayor Rudy Giuliani promised that 222 acres of Scottish-style links would open in 2001, but eight years later the site - just east of the Whitestone Bridge - is still nothing more than a gigantic pile of dirt. (comment: during which time they designed a much least exotic course that required more fill and less expense for the developer) (comment: wrong, it was a scenic wooded course with 200 mature trees and 2 ponds) (comment: uselessly sculptured) "We are ending our agreement with Ferry Point Partners because the project could not be completed under the terms of the contract," was the only reason Parks spokesman Warner Johnston would offer, stressing that it was an "amicable" parting of ways. But the decision to finally terminate the contract after years of complaints from neighbors came after a member of the Ferry Point Park Coalition wrote a letter to City Council Speaker Christine Quinn citing an exclusive Daily News story suggesting that two mob-connected trucking outfits could be skimming money from the project. The speaker's office did not return repeated calls for comment. Last summer, the Daily News reported that the FBI was investigating two companies known to be dumping landfill at the site - New York Dirt and JustUs Recycling Corp. - for alleged mob ties. According to the feds, a Gambino capo was caught on tape boasting that the mob was taking as much as $5 for every cubic yard of dirt the companies dumped. When digging the foundations for new buildings, contractors have to pay to have the dirt to be hauled away and dumped at rates ranging from $4 to $12 per cubic yard. (comment: the profit depends on how cheap you can dump the dirt and how close due to expenses on gas, toll, and the location determines the amount of trips you can make in a day) There is a law that stops landfills from being legal in NYC. Thereforr to have the convenience of dumping within the city is allready an asset, that is why it may have took so long to collect the fill, because many trucks were not welcome to take advantage of this "club" that benefitted from an in side NY landfill. "If you got the hole, you got the gold," mobster Gregory DePalma said in a wiretapped conversation before his arrest last year on federal racketeering charges. After trucking more than 1.5 million cubic yards of dirt into Ferry Point since the project began in 2000, Ferry Point Partners received permission last year to accept another 850,000 cubic yards more. (comment: we are still looking for the copy of this permit that we believe after our letters to stop the requested hydraulic hammering, on site asphalt grinding, and night deliveries etc. the DEC put a stipulation that to show good will to the community the Balcolm Ave public park should be finished by Oct. of 2006. When we find the actual permit we will clarify this as probably the reason for the dropping of the Developer in charge just at this time...end of October 2006. The erstwhile lead developer, Pierre Gagne, denied that Ferry Point Partners profited from the so-called "tipping fees," saying the fees were all pocketed by Laws Construction, the contractor, to cover the costs of spreading the fill and sculpting the contours of the course. Johnston, the Parks spokesman, would not comment on the possible influence the reported mob involvement had on the decision to yank Gagne's contract. (comment: final nail in the particular Developer named Pierre Gagne under this particular contract but Laws Construction keeps right on dumping and uselessly sculpting, as of now...at a feverish speed) (Observers have mentioned that the new dirt is from the Yankee Stadium construction and the Croton Water Filtration Plant which means the City is paying to dump on their own land???) (comment:rumors have it that Parks is looking for private funds...from enclosed Tennis Courts "really a Bronx sport ha! ha!"...to Pay for the completion of the public Parks). (comment: no rent, a bunch of contour maps indicating the height to fill the dirt at different spots marked with poles, one man in a rusty trailor directing the fill, a man testing the trucks at 1000.00 a pop, which is basically useless now because no one wants to pay to dig down into the toxins, one suave Top Cadillac Salesman type man to attend meetings and keep the hype going, a bulldozer....22 million in 7 years???? give me a break......the most the developer laid out was the 700,000 in Lobbying fees to the Parks Depat., the Mayor and a few other offices, even the 1 million for their lawyers was paid by the Parks Depart. ( total over 6 million) when they were sued for the methane problem.) |
New York Post article
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Latest Design supposedly by Jack Nicklaus but only found on Thomas Balsey and Associates web site. This designer designed the parks surrounding the golf course.
http://www.tbany.com/projects_page.php?projectid=160&categoryid=4
Jack Nicklaus never had a design on his site but he has many others under construction and finished throughout these 7 years.
back in 1999 this mountain of dirt was not there. You could actually see the Throggs Neck Bridge from this point (near the Whitestone Bridge Toll Booths). The Exhaust is now being encapsulated and forced closer to the homes on Brush Ave.
Most informative articles about the Proposed Golf Course:
Gotham Gazette..."Golf Course at Ferry Point" by Anne Schwartz July 07,2001 http://www.gothamgazette.com/print/628
City Limits... "The Missing Links"...by Alex Ulam
http://www.citylimits.org/content/articles/articleView.cfm?articlenumber=851
search for other articles on subject at these sites under Ferry Point, Ferry Point Golf/ Golf Bronx
New York Daily News- Daily Dish & Gossip July 24, 2002
"Above Par at City Hall"
search for other articles on subject at this site Ferry Point Golf/ Golf Bronx
Village Voice August 21-27, 2002 "A Tale of Two Rudys" by Cynthia Cotts search for other articles on subject at this site Ferry Point Golf/ Golf Bronx
Westchester Journal News in Archives 1990-2005 look up Westway Construction Ardsley, Laws Construction, Ferry Point Golf, Bronx Golf, St. Andrews Golf Club, Rudy Washington, Pierre Gagne.
Daily News August 14, 2005 "Big Golf Mess Suits Mob to a Tee"
Secret recordings reveal Gambino capo Gregory Depalma boasting of Mob's take in unloading of trucks. Developer Pierre Gagne insists the tons of fill are needed....
Copy of Email sent to Jack Nicklaus Design 3/13/2006 2:02 PM
Dear Jack Nicklaus Design,
Why is the Golf Course that your Company was supposed to have designed on the website of a company called Thomas Balsey Associates?
This same design was shown to hundreds of people of Throggs Neck, in the Bronx, NY, (by Pierre Gagne, Madeline Provenzano, and Jack Nicklaus himself in the Bronx Times Reporter) as the Design from your Company...Actually this design was from a company that designs for many companies including the NYC Parks Department. Can you comment on this so I can explain it to my constituents?.
Dorothea Poggi
I have not received a response as of this date....
Check out the "Rotten Truth About Garbage"....A Timeline From 1800 to present explaining America's relationship with Garbage: http://www.astc.org/exhibitions/rotten/timeline.htm
Although it is probably not allowed, Golfers have been practicing their swing on weekdays at the West Side of Ferry Point Park for over 40 years.
Type in (Ferry Point Golf) (Bronx Golf Ferry Point)
(Ferry Point Partners) to search Google or MSN etc.
Note*
Ferry Point Partners is on record as spending over $ 700.000 lobbying the Mayor, The City Council, The Parks Dept, etc.
The original agreement of a Jack Nicklaus designed course...with a PGA event...1 year construction on Parks Property with proposed 22 million of developer dollars and nooutlay of dollars from the City, and the rental of at least 3 million a year,
...turned into 7 years or more of construction with 6.3 million spent and 6.3 more to come by Parks Dept. (for mediation of methane gases, 1 million to lawyers, etc.)
Now the Developer is projecting 80 million will be needed to complete course, although the plans have not been designed by Jack Nicklaus, and changed dramatically to a less expensive design of (the Links Style) sundrenched grasses and hills instead of 200 full grown glorious shade trees and a promised pond, and the public access snack bar with comfort station, was moved inside the pay to be a member area.
Estimates of 21 million or more have been paid in tipping fees of the dump trucks to the developer. This has all been done with the outlay of no rent, no taxes, one rusty trailer and 1 bulldozer.
It took 32 months? To build the
Daily News August 14 reported the FBI wiretaps that consist of Gangsters raking in $43,000.00 per month for years now from the landfill Known as the future Ferry Point Golf Course.
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After the Scoping Tour Dotti, Jimi and Geoffery took a ride over to the East side of the Park off Balcolm Ave. to discuss the condition of the 7 acre Playground area that was supposed to be completed by September of this year by the Ferry Point Partners (future Golf Course),* if the Parks Dept. still accepts responsibility for the environmental remediation of toxins and methane.
These are some of the photos we took and that were submitted by neighors:
completely overgrown ball field with methane trench along fence? Methane Trench? along Play area?
Children play in puddle, near methane trench as Mobsters rake in $43,000 per month
Homeless man sleeping on Methane Trench
Sidewalk along previous Park that was taken over by Ferry Point Partners 7 Years ago: