Comptroller and Riverkeeper Opine on Ridgewood Reservoir
Jun 3rd, 2008 by Jervey
William C. Thompson Jr. and Robert Kennedy Jr. had an op-ed in the Times last week about Ridgewood Reservoir that calls into question some Parks Department plans to “renovate” the long abandoned reservoir as athletic fields.
It begins:
MANY people are astounded to learn that there is a teeming wildlife preserve in New York City. Ridgewood Reservoir on the Brooklyn-Queens border is an oasis where an amazing range of plant and animal species thrive in a verdant landscape of steep hills and narrow valleys amid the city’s paved sidewalks.
But what’s more astounding, the city’s Parks Department could wind up destroying it.
This might qualify as a must read for anyone at all interested in open space preservation and wilderness in NYC.
The Save Ridgewood Reservoir site has all kinds of information about this oft-overlooked park and preserve.