Fordham Tower / New York Botanical Garden

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Friends,

Here's the skinny. The New York Botanical Garden (in the Bronx)  is one of
the premiere Botanical gardens in the world ( also world class is the
Brooklyn Botanic Garden where ACGA President Ellen Kirby  works)and has a
fairly powerful neighbor, Fordham University.

Fordham University has an FM radio station and wants to build a large radio
transmitter tower on its property adjacent to the New York Botanical Garden
in the Bronx. This transmitter will ruin several of the vistas in the
Botanic garden including the last few acres of virgin forest that New York
City possesses. Along with the New York Yankees, both the New York Botanical
Garden and Fordham University are Bronx heavyweights. I like Fordham, its
resident Cardinal ( Cardinal Avery Dulles, one of nature's noblemen) and my
wife who is currently attending Fordham's Lincoln Center campus.

Here's the NY Botanical  Garden website: http://www.nybg.org/ 

However, the radio tower should be placed somewhere else. If you ACGA folks
thing the same way, please sign the on-line petition and send some cards and
letters, etc.

Best wishes,
Adam Honigman

-----Original Message-----
From: Stephanie Elson [s*@ny4p.org]
Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 1:42 PM
To: Stephanie Elson
Subject: Fordham Tower / New York Botanical Garden

Parks Supporters, please read the below message from the New York Botanical
Garden
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Dear Friends and Supporters of The New York Botanical Garden,

The New York Botanical Garden needs your support to move the Fordham radio
tower.
Help us show the Federal Communications Commissions and Fordham University
how many
people feel strongly that the radio tower diminishes the Garden as a
historic landscape and
should be built in a more appropriate place.

Please click on this web address, http://www.nybg.org/tower/, to get the
full story
and to sign an on-line petition. Also, please attend the public hearing on
Thursday, June 27:

Morning Session at the Garden
10: 00 - 12:00
Enid A. Haupt Conservatory

Afternoon Session at Fordham
2:00 - 4:00
McGinley Center Ballroom

The Garden needs supporters at either session.  Please come early to enjoy
light refreshments at the Garden at 9:00 a.m. or 1:00 p.m.  A group will
depart for the afternoon session from the Conservatory Gate at 1:30 p.m.

Thanks for your help and support!

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