Cuomo veto of Pier 40 plan sparks new development fight

Rich Calder, Bernadette Hogan
Thu, 02 Jan 2020 19:40:08 -0500

Not in my backyard! Hell’s Kitchen community leaders demanded Gov. Andrew Cuomo look elsewhere to find new revenue to fund the string of piers-turned-parks along the Hudson River after he nixed a controversial West Village development plan. “The governor shouldn’t be protecting one neighborhood at the expense of another,” Lowell Kern, chairman of Manhattan Community...