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Portions of Fieldston, Spuyten Duyvil and Riverdale fall within an area known as the Special Natural Area District. The city wants to overhaul SNAD rules to allow small developers to submit plans directly to the buildings department, bypassing local community boards and city planning. Some SNAD supporters call the plan a grave mistake.
Neighbors quiver over city’s scheme to dismantle SNAD
Some people are just about shuddering from anxiety over how overhauled Special Natural Area District regulations could irrevocably transform the essentially unchanged landscape they’ve relished for generations. more
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Toni Seguinot and Adam Woodley walk alongside a puddle on the Old Putnam Trail in Van Cortlandt Park. A plan is in place — and funding secured — to pave a portion of the trail extending from the northern region of the park to the bottom of Van Cortlandt Lake. But both Seguinot and Woodley, who walk the trail at least once a week, feel it would diminish the park’s natural beauty.
Parks officials poised to pave Putnam Trail
It could be a smoother ride for cyclists, but more jarring on joggers’ joints. Yet, that’s not on the mind of city parks department officials who believe their plan to pave more than a mile of the Putnam Trail will make it more accessible to all. more
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