[CPEO-MEF] Davids Island/Fort Slocum (NY)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

From Army Outpost to Park, the Saga of Davids Island

By LISA W. FODERARO
New York Times
August 12, 2005

NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y., Aug. 11 - For years, people with varying agendas in 
Westchester County have gazed across Long Island Sound at Davids Island, 
an abandoned Army post half a mile from shore, and sketched their visions.

In the 1960's, Consolidated Edison saw nuclear power plants. In the 
1980's and 1990's, developers, including Donald Trump, envisioned an 
enclave for the ultrarich. All along, the city of New Rochelle, which 
owns the 78-acre island, anticipated a huge new source of tax revenue 
from luxury high-rises. Many residents, however, pined for a park.

Today, it looks as though Davids Island is on its way to becoming a 
county park. On Thursday, Representative Nita M. Lowey was joined by 
county and local officials in slipping a few golden shovels into the 
sand in a symbolic start of what promises to be a long and costly cleanup.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/12/nyregion/12island.html?pagewanted=all


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