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MARCH 21, 2011
Smoking at home could be banned in some condos and co-ops; new 10-year plan outlines vision for 520 miles of waterfront property
Upcoming shareholders’ meetings at at least a half dozen Manhattan condos and co-ops are expected to include a vote on whether to keep residents from smoking in their homes. Smoking is already prohibited in common areas of larger apartment buildings, and growing concerns about secondhand smoke as well as recent smoking bans in the city’s parks have raised the possibility of a complete ban. The city’s health department claims that only about 16% of residents identify themselves as smokers; a two-thirds shareholder majority is required in most residential buildings to enact a ban such as the one being discussed.
The mayor’s office recently released a report detailing plans to clean up and redevelop 520 miles of waterfront property over the next 10 years. The plan outlines projects like the addition of 50 acres of new parks, 14 new esplanades and a new ferry service as well as a new public access pier in Long Island City and the completion of the East River Esplanade and Brooklyn Bridge Park. The plan, dubbed “Vision 2020,” intends to reverse a history of “decades of turning our backs on the shoreline—allowing it to devolve into a no-man’s land of rotting piers, parking lots, and abandoned industrial sites.”
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