Events

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.

By Aaron Donovan

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

Aaron Donovan

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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