Cuomo s essential workers memorial being moved after backlash from Battery Park City msn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from msn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
NEW YORK â The stateâs monument to honor COVID-19 pandemic essential workers will be in a different area of a New York City park after thousands of people Tuesday continued to sign an online petition pushing back against the planned location.
The Essential Workers Monument, also called the Circle of Heroes, is slated for Battery Park City in the southern tip of Manhattan. The estimated $3 million project, to feature 19 maple trees in a circle with an eternal flame in the center, is set to be completed this summer and open Labor Day, Sept. 6.
The monument will be constructed in a corner of Rockefeller Park instead of the main section of the green space after thousands of city residents expressed frustration, disappointment and anger over the chosen location.
Locals Protest Cuomo s Plan To Install Essential Workers Monument In Battery Park City gothamist.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from gothamist.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Planned monument to essential workers meets opposition in Battery Park City By Lori Chung Manhattan
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NEW YORK Battery Park City residents at a sit-in say they re hoping to convince Gov. Andrew Cuomo to drop plans for a monument to essential workers in their neighborhood, worried that they ll lose a vital part of Rockefeller Park.
Battery Park City residents at a sit-in over plans, announced by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, to build a monument to essential workers. NY1/Philip O Driscoll. Our primary objective is to preserve this green space, Jennifer Haran said. Kids play here, there s soccer games, there s T-ball games on the weekend, people sunbathing, Haran added. Really, everyone from our community and beyond uses this space.
Cuomo s essential worker monument faces backlash in Manhattan timesunion.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from timesunion.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.