To make your voice heard, please contact our elected officials, and ask them to stop the proposed seizure of Robert Moses Playground. Letters to these officials mean something; the absence of letters to them means something else:
The current EGAP (Eastside Greenway and Park) Board Members are:
EGAP Chairperson and Deputy Mayor Alicia Glen
NYC Economic Development Corporation President and CEO Maria Torres-Springer
Mayor’s Office for International Affairs Commissioner Penny Abeywardena
NYC Parks Commissioner Mitchell Silver
NYC Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg
NYC Office of Management and Budget Director Dean Fuleihan
Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer
Congressmember Carolyn Maloney – 212-860-0606 rep.carolyn.maloney@mail.house.gov
NYS Senator Liz Krueger 212-490-9535 / Fax – 212-490-2151
liz@lizkrueger.com and Lkrueger@senate.state.ny.us and lkrueger@nysenate.gov
NYS Assemblymember Brian Kavanagh 212-490-9535 / 212-979-9696 / 347-450-0546 Fax – 212-979-0594
Kavanaghb@assembly.state.ny.us and Info@briankavanagh.org
Councilmember Daniel Garodnick – (212) 818-0580 / Fax (212) 818-0706
Garodnick@council.nyc.ny.us District Office www.garodnick.com
Other NYC and Federal officials who are responsible for public safety and environmental should be contacted include:
1. Assistant Commissioner David Kelly, New York City Police Department Counterterrorism Bureau, One Police Plaza, New York, NY 10038 Telephone: 646-610-4557 / 646-610-6169 Email: WTCEIS@nypd.org
2. Robert Kulikowski, PhD. Director, NYC Office of Environmental Coordination, 100 Gold Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10038 Tel.: 212-788-9956 Fax: 212–788-2941
3. Matt Best, Capital Project Development, NYC Office of The Mayor, City Hall, New York, NY 10007 Tel. 212-788-3000 Fax: 212-312-0700
4. Heidi Rubinstein, Senior Counsel, Environmental Law Division, Tel. 212-788-1571 Fax 212-788-1619 Email: hrubinst@law.nyc.gov
5. EMS Command 718-999-2770/1753
6. Department of Homeland Security, 200 Varick Street, #5, New York, NY 10014 Tel.: 202-282-8000
United Nations Officials who should be contacted include:
1. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon – 212-963-5012 http://www.un.org/sg/
2. Deputy Secretary General – Mr. Jan Eliasson – 212-963-8010
3. Mr. Yukio Takasu, Under-Secretary-General -Dept. of Management 917-367-4904
4. Mr. Christian Saunders, Director, Office of the Under-Secretary-General 212-963-6546
5. Mr. Stephen Cutts, Assistant Secretary-General for Central Support Services 212-963-5569
National Officials who should be contacted include:
1. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand
780 Third Avenue
Suite 2601
New York, New York 10017
Tel. (212) 688-6262
Website: http://gillibrand.senate.gov/
2. Senator Charles E. Schumer
757 Third Avenue, Suite 17-02
New York, NY 10017
Telephone: (212) 486-7693 / Fax: (212) 486-7803
3. Governor’s Cuomo’s; office 518-474-8390 fax – 518-474-1513 http://www.governor.ny.gov/contact/GovernorContactForm.php
4. Ambassador Samantha Power US Permanent Representative to the United Nations – Tel. 212-415-4062 Fax: 212-415-4053 / http://www.usunnewyork.usmission.gov/
United States Mission to the UN
799 United Nations Plaza
New York, NY 10017
5. Secretary of State John Kerry
U.S. Department of State
2201 C Street NW
Washington, DC 20520 Website: http://www.state.gov/secretary/ States Mission to the United Nations
6. President Barack Obama – The White House – 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 200500 Telephone: (202) 456 -1111 For Comments (202) 456 – 1414 comments@whitehouse.gov;
president@whitehouse.gov
7. Vice President Joe Biden: vice_president@whitehouse.gov
Please continue to call and fax your legislators opposing the seizure of Robert Moses Playground: