A pricey Upper East Side private school is seeking to continue its controversial land grab this fall, despite a call from the UES community board to revoke their permit. Upper East Site has confirmed that The Allen-Stevenson School has once again qui
From whom is this a “land grab”? From entitled drivers who endanger children in front of their schools? From entitled parkers who store their personal property on public real estate, for free-or-almost-free?
What this really is, is a land *restoration*—and a pretty modest one, at that—considering it’s merely restoring a sliver of the 80% of public space that, for a century, has been taken for the 24/7 de facto exclusive use of those in cars, leaving the majority of us trapped in the leftover 20%—on ever-narrowing garbage-covered sidewalks.
All public schools should have Open Streets to
Fuck off and fuck your cars. Open street is the best solution to car congested school zones.