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Please sign the following petition in the space provided, then click on the "submit" button at bottom. The petition will be emailed to the Governor of New York, and the Mayor of New York, and to the coordinator of the East Harlem Bus Stop. You may choose to allow your name, address and phone number to display itself publicly on the signature by checking the appropriate boxes, or to maintain your privacy. Choosing to display your information makes a stronger statement and encourages others to do likewise. Even if you choose not to display it publicly, at least your full name and full address must be entered for authentication purposes.
PETITION

To:  New York Governor George Pataki 

Dear Gov. Pataki: 

     The residents of East Harlem are not only alarmed but outraged that the MTA is currently constructing the largest bus depot in NYC in our neighborhood, which is zoned R7 for residential and small commercial businesses. 

     However great may be the need to park NYC's buses, the life and health of the people must come first. East Harlem has the highest rate of asthma in the USA, while the adjoining Upper East Side has the highest breast cancer rate. 

     The diesel particulates that will belch forth form the exhaust of these buses will harm the health of the local population. 

     Diesel fumes not only aggravate asthma, but their particulates are also know to cause breast and lung cancer. The AMA has published a study that found that people who breathed in diesel particulates had a higher rate of getting lung cancer. 

     The people of East Harlem are rightly concerned about their health, since the bus depot is mere feet from their apartments. 

     We know that you have expressed a great deal of concern through Senator Olga Mendez for the residents of East Harlem. We ask you now to intervene in this project and stop the opening of this bus terminal. 

Sincerely, 

The Undersigned 

 
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Name Address Apt Municpality ST ZIP
Molly Yarrington     New York NY 10035
Molly Yarrington     New York NY 10035
Randolph Caban     New York NY 10128-3623
  Hello Gwen, BRAVO ON YOUR ACTIVISM!
           
  Did you ever walk in the back of just one bus? Imagine inhaling 100's of them!!
           
  Stop the opening of this bus terminal in our community. Keep the air pollution away from our children.
           
Amie E Hartman 152 E 100th st.      
JOEL MYERS 800 Fifth Avenue 98 New Yoek NY 10099
  gOOD gOING
JOEL MYERS 800 Fifth Avenue 98 New Yoek NY 10099
  gOOD gOING
JOEL MYERS 800 Fifth Avenue 98 New Yoek NY 10099
  gOOD gOING
marlene s. Colgate 220 East 95 Street NY NY 10128
  The dispersal of toxic particulate matter from this proposed new diesel BUS garage, FIVE TIMES LARGER and TALLER than what was there before, will contaminate an enormous area, including Central Park, the Upper East Side,(Community District 8), upper Harlem (District 11), as well as the immediate surrounding area (District 10). Since Harlem, in which three quarters of the current bus sites are located, ALREADY has the highest asthma rate in the nation, this proposed new garage is TOTALLY INACCEPTABLE and MUST BE BLOCKED.
 
 
 
 
           
  Don't dump on the little people. Every life is precious.
           
           
           
           
           
Maria Woodward          
  I do not live in New York but this is a disgrace to have all those dirty fumes in that neighbor hood. I thought you where cleaning up halem?
Matthew Bradely Miller          
Raymond - Plumey          
  Presently, I am the only locally-based Latino architect, preservationist and city planner in the East Harlem area, both a resident and a businessperson. In the event Federal funds were used on this Bus Depot project, then the project is in clear violation of Executive Order No. 12898, issued by President Bill Clinton on February 11, 1994, which states:...each Federal agency shall make achieving environmental justice part of its mission by identifying and addressing, as appropriate, disproportionately high and adverse human health or environmental effects of its programs, policies and activities on minority populations and low-income populations...
           
           
  Presently, I am the only Latino architect, preservationist and city planner in the East Harlem area, both a resident and a businsessperson. In the event Federal funds have been used on this project, then it is a clear violation of Executive Order No. 12898, issued by President Bill Clinton on February 11, 1994, which states: ...each Federal agency shall make achieving environmental justice part of its mission by identifying and addressing, as appropriate, dispropotionately high and adverse human health or environmental effects of its programs, policies and activities on minority populations and low-income populations...
           
Green Party of Chatham County          
  End environmental racism NOW!
Richard L. Muller 303 East 5th Street C-2 New York NY 10003-8811
Diana Fishman Nicole Fishman          
           
           
           
Mike Hunt          
  Hurry up and finish this depot so we can move on to the next one
Mimi Lauducci 310 Pleasant Avenue NYC NY 10035
  My lungs are weak. You are killing me.
           
  This bus depot is going to bring even more pollution to a neighborhood full of children and families. Please let us breathe! Move the bus depot.
Dennis Jamieson 90 Gold Street Apt.6G New York NY 10038
flr13@warwick.net          
  Deisel particulates cause cancer, this depot should not be housed in a residentual neighborhood. The buses should remain on 42nd st. in it's present comercial district.
salvatore Hili          
  As a NYC fireman I am aware of the hazard of deisel particulates. This is a dangerous plan.
Nestor Rodriguez     NY NY 10029
Rosemary Rodriguez          
  I have asthma and am VERY CONCERNED for myself and everyone that this bus stop be moved.
           
Rebecca Kreinen     NYC NY 10029
      ny Ny 10128
           
Michael Merano Brooklyn NY 11218
  There are enough threatening pollutants in our air, so why must the neighborhood of East Harlem be subject to further toxins. The downtown bus terminal is on the Hudson River away from neighborhoods, so why can't the uptown station be more secluded or at least more neighborhood friendly.
           
Laura Shapiro Kramer     New york Ny 10021
Megan H O'Bymachow          
KC Sanders     New York NY 10023
  Quality of life matters.
Jennifer Brady 452 5th Avenue #2 Brooklyn NY 11215
martine caverl     new york ny 10013
Vanessa Butkus          
  I may not be a resident of the area, but the motives for building this bus barn are incomprehensible to me. Within the next several years we are supposed to meet the requirements of the Kyoto Report how will that happen if we allow a trend like this to happen. There are plenty of alternative tranportations out there why wont the city or the Transit see that and promote that. Allowing the city to keep on with this project is aking for other countries to get pisssed off at us. With things like this bus barn going up we will never be able to the Kyoto report standards which is mandatory.
Sean G. Tarjoto          
Sabrina Ward Lee     New York NY 10003
Kathleen Marie Van Dyk     New York City NY 10013
           
           
Barbara Garson          
           
Donald J DeBerardinis     Ossining NY 10562
  Buses, sewers and gas-fired power plants are not appropriate for places where people live and breathe. Move it to Scarsdale!
Ana G. San Antonio     New York City NY 10128
Freddie Quintin Frilando          
Bertrand B. Aubrey          
           
Laura S Zelasnic     Loisaida NY 10009
  I wish you the best. if you need some people to do street theater to call attention to the issue let me know. laura
Michael Alexander Gould-Wartofsky          
  On behalf of the students of Hunter High School (located on 95th Street), I demand an end to this assault on the neighborhood, on the health of its children, and on people of color and poor people in our city.
           
  I am an RN at Mt sinai who works in the ER...the pediatric asthma population is growing..this is a bad location for this depot
           
michael edouard botha 112 E 98th St, Apt 5W New York NY 10029
  I think councilman Reed has been disinterested, if not negligent, from the very start of the campaign against the bus depot.
           
 
           
  It am election year. This project has demonstrated a flagrant disregaurd for the welfare of the resident of East Harlem. The governer should suppport the people of our community and assist in closing down this site. We look forward to Govener Pataki's responce.
 
Lydia E. Lopez One East Park Court Garnerville NY 10923
  With Gwen Goodwin and her colleagues working to STOP this project; the community cannot lose!
Patrice Dara Hall          
  There is already too much pollution in upper Manhattan, this bus depot will just add more pollution and health problems for the residents of East Harlem. I am concerned because the pollutants are airbourne and will eventually reach the Bronx where there are also high numbers of asthma patients. The MTA is showing lack of concern for the people who ride their subways and buses and pay good money to do so.
           
           
           
ANTONIO BAERGA 2057 PROSPECT AVE BRONX NY 10457
  GROWING UP IN LEXINGTON HOUSES WHERE MY PARENT STILL RESIDE BRING MANY MEMORIES. THE BUS DEPOT WAS 3 STORIES HIGH, SO THE VIEW WAS FABULOUS. WE COULD SEE THE TAINO TOWERS, THE LIGHT FROM YANKEES STADIUM, THE BRIDGES AT NIGHT, AND ALL THE BEAUTIFUL DECORATION DURING THE HOLIDAYS. BUT THIS MAMOUTH BUILDING THAT IS MORE THAT 11 STORIES HAS TAKEN ALL THAT AWAY. THE MTA DOES NOT CARE ABOUT OUR HEALTH OR WELL BEING, THEY HAVE AFFECTED THE DAILY LIFE OF THE ELDERS AND THE NEW GENERATION IN THIS COMMUNITY. BLACKS AND HISPANICS ARE STILL TREATED AS SECOND HAND CITIZEN EVEN IF BLACK AND HISPANIC ARE PRODUCTIVE IN EVERYTHING THEY DO. I BELIEVE THAT OUR ENVIROMENT WILL BE AFFECTED IN A DEADLY WAY. THERE WILL BE MORE CASES OF SEVERE ASTHMA, BIRTH DEFECTS, LUNG DISEASE AND OTHER ILLNESS AS A RESULT OF THE FUMES THAT THIS BUS DEPOT WILL SPREAD INTO THE AIR. LET STOP THIS PROJECT NOW AND LET'S START THIKING ABOUTE FUTURE OF OUR PEOPLE
Joel S Meyers POB 20868 Tompkins Square Station 868 New York NY 10009
  Let's get rid of the bus barn, pronto!