Posted on 10/04/2023 1:24:08 AM PDT by Libloather
Central Park's iconic Great Lawn is set to be closed to the public until spring 2024 after the grass was churned up by a music festival.
Huge crowds descended on the Manhattan hotspot on September 23 for the Global Citizen Festival, which quickly the space became more reminiscent of the boggy chaos that ruined this year's Burning Man festival.
About a third of the 12-acre green space was destroyed by a 'combination of heavy rain, foot traffic, and machinery used for staging' wrote NYC Councilwoman Gail Brewer in a letter to Mayor Eric Adams.
Brewer urged Adams to move the event to another location in the future, with the Great Lawn - one of the most popular summer spots in the Big Apple - now closed until next April at the soonest.
The Central Park Conservancy, which made the decision to shut the space, said the lawn was ruined by 'saturated conditions', which came after large storms whipped up by the remnants of Tropical Depression Ophelia.
The environmental body described around a third of the Great Lawn as 'fully destroyed', with images of the scene showing it consumed by mud.
While crews are now 'working to restore the lawn', the group said they only hope to open the space next spring due to the damage.
'The Central Park Conservancy is very disappointed that the iconic Great Lawn is now closed and unavailable for New Yorkers to enjoy this fall,' a spokesperson for the Central Park Conservancy added.
'While we share New Yorkers’ frustration, we have had a positive relationship with the Global Citizen Festival producers and are confident any damages will be remedied expeditiously,' a spokesperson for the NYC Parks Department added.
The Parks Department added that it normally only cancels an event in the case of thunder and lightning...
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Tragedy of the Commons. Not hard to predict.
Liberals trash all venues they attend.
It never rains in California. Move the fes-ti-val there.
Let’s build the wall around NY city and let no one in and no one out-no trucks w food or anything. Let them destroy each other. After the carnage we can start again. Remember, you voted for this idiocy.
The Global Citizens did that much damage to a lawn just standing around.
How much damage did they do in traveling around to get to the festival?
Why do the rest of us have to bear the burdens of the Global Citizen’s indulgences?
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This seems like an environmental crime, sounds like we need a tribunal!
I don’t think this was just “global citizens”. They had some big acts there, the ground was saturated and a bazillion people showed. Liberals do destroy every venue that’s about them and their inane causes.
Apparently the ground keepers of the great lawn have never heard of cart path only. After a rain, golf courses routinely restrict traffic on fairways to prevent damage just like this.
Yet, there are literally millions of people this year that gladly paid thousands to attend a concert by a pop singer.
IF any group had an event on that lawn when they received 6” of rain in a short time it would have left a mess most likely.
Any time you bring heavy equipment into an area with more than a couple inches of top soil that equipment is going to make ruts. It happens every year here on the gravel back roads of NH. It is called MUD SEASON. They post signs that say PASS AT YOU OWN RISK.
I have ruts in a section of my own lawn right now from driving across it multiple times last spring with my 4000# tractor moving bucket loads of crushed stone.
The people running the government have no idea how to build things only tear things down. This is no different than destroy neighborhoods and businesses.
Wonder how long it took to pick up all the trash they left behind?
New York City hasn't got enough money from the U.S. treasury. So, they haven't started yet.
The people running the government have no idea how to build things only tear things down. This is no different than destroy neighborhoods and businesses.
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