YONKERS TRIBUNE: Yonkers Organizations Unite To Prevent Parking Garage in JFK Marina

The parking garage proposed for the Marina is a project of the Lela Goren Group (LGG), the developer planning an adaptive reuse of the long-abandoned Glenwood Power Plant, which abuts the Marina’s south end. The footprint for their garage, which LGG asserts is the smallest they can possibly go to satisfy their parking needs, stretches nearly 1,100 feet long, running across a large swath of the Marina.

YONKERS, NY: A consortium of Yonkers community groups has joined forces to prevent a private developer from building a parking garage in JFK Marina, the sole remaining expanse of open public parkland along the Hudson River waterfront in Yonkers.

The Marina, with its unimpeded, panoramic views of the Palisades, is considered by many to be one of Yonkers’ greatest public assets.

The park provides small boat access to the river, lawn at water-level with benches and grass for picnicking, lounging and ball playing, fishing piers, and a pavilion with grills and electricity that is leased for parties and which, before the pandemic, was in demand all summer long…..

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