If you had $70 million, how would you spend it to improve the lives of New Yorkers?
In January 2019, it was revealed that the Hudson River Park Trust will be pouring $70 million into a misguided project to create Manhattan’s first public beach. In that very month, the number of New Yorkers living in City shelters reached a 36-year record of 63,839. The promise of manufactured sandy shores is not going to bring solace nor hope to the nearly 17,000 homeless children sleeping in the municipal shelter system tonight.
