Upper East Side Town Hall Meeting: Congestion Pricing
A town hall meeting entitled "ask your elected officials." We are told that this is expected to be dominated by discussions of congestion pricing.
9:30 PM EDT on June 8, 2007
A town hall meeting entitled “ask your elected officials.” We are told that this is expected to be dominated by discussions of congestion pricing.
Expected attendees include:
- Manhattan Borough President Scott M. Stringer
- Councilwoman Jessica Lappin
- State Senator Liz Kruger
- Councilman Daniel R. Garodnick
Sponsored by:
- East 79th Street Neighborhood Association
- Manhattan Community Board 8
- Carnegie Hill Neighbors
- East Sixties Neighborhood Association
- East 86th Street Merchants & Residents Association
- East 83rd/84th Street Block Association
- Friends of the Upper East Side Historic Districts
- Roosevelt Island Residents Association
- Upper Green Side
- 2nd/3rd East 80th Block Association
- 19th Precinct Community Council
Before he began blogging about land use and transportation, Aaron Donovan wrote The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund's annual fundraising appeal for three years and earned a master's degree in urban planning from Columbia. Since then, he has worked for nonprofit organizations devoted to New York City economic development. He lives and works in the Financial District, and sees New York's pre-automobile built form as an asset that makes New York unique in the United States, and as a strategic advantage that should be capitalized upon.
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