Residents Say Bridge Design Doesn't Fit

Posted by: Nate Berg

20 November 2008 - 7:00am

New bridge plans for the New York community of City Island has residents up in arms over what they see as an incompatible design.

"The Department of Transportation has chosen a design featuring cables and a 150-foot tower, one that residents believe is ill-suited to their small nautical community, where buildings can be no higher than about three stories."

"'People call it the Nantucket of New York City,' said Barbara Hoffman, the president of the City Island Garden Club. 'Here they’re going to put this monstrosity up.'"

"Work on the project was supposed to begin in July 2006, but when that did not happen, residents began to wonder if they might be able to have more say."

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Source: The New York Times, November 14, 2008