Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe oversees nearly 30,000 acres of prime real estate in the city and is getting ready to announce who his agency has picked as the new operator\ of Central Park's Tavern on the Green. On this week's Webcast, The Real Deal's Jen Benepe interviews the commissioner -- her brother -- in a rare, on-air sibling sit-down. In addition to Tavern on the Green, the two talked about the coming restaurant at Union Square, where their father, Barry, founded the farmer's market. They also talked about which developers are contributing money to parks and why, even with the recent budget cuts, the city's green spaces won't look like they did in the 1970s.
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Disgruntled To Say The Least
This administration has zero accountability and the parks department under Mr. Benepe is a perfect example. His smug comment about the Union Square controversy is typical and is an embarrassment for the city. Taking away play space from children in an area with the lowest amount of playspace in the entire city to install a restaurant in an area with the highest concentration of restaurants is not funny. But Apparently Jen and her brother think so as they laugh it up after Adrian's vegetable line. He keeps saying there has been a cafe there for 14 years, when in fact there has never been one even for a single day where the BID/city wants to install one—which is inside the historic pavilion. He cant even be honest with his sister much less the general public. The public wants that space to be restored and given back to the public for children, community and free speech uses. That's no laughing matter. Shame on them.
Comment #1 Posted By: Disgruntled To Say The Least 06/13/09
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