REMARKS
Council Member Kevin C. Riley addresses subway surfing concerns and Resolution 187 on the Gun Hill Road Bus Depot
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Council Member Kevin C. Riley emphasizes the importance of the hearing on subway surfing, sharing a personal experience of witnessing young boys engaging in this dangerous activity. He then discusses Resolution 187, which calls for an environmental impact study on the Gun Hill Road Electric Depot bus station in his district.
- Riley expresses gratitude to Chair Selvena Brooks Powers for expediting the hearing on subway surfing.
- He highlights the need for all agencies to collaborate in addressing the subway surfing issue.
- Riley describes the current poor state of the area around the proposed Gun Hill Road Electric Depot, including maintenance issues and illegal dumping.
Kevin C. Riley
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Thank you, chair.
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Before I begin, I'll be remiss if I don't speak about the importance of today's hearing.
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I contacted, chair Savina Brooks Powers, I believe, a month and a half ago when I was, riding down here, to attend a hearing where I witnessed myself, 2 young boys subway surfing in the same cart, that me and my wife were traveling in.
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My heart dropped to my stomach.
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I immediately started praying, and contacted the council, and the chair.
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And I just wanna thank you, chair, for, effectively in speeding up the process of this hearing because it's really, really effective, really, really important, excuse me, that we talk about this issue.
0:21:43
And I'm glad to see that all agencies are here to talk about this because it's gonna take all of our agencies and all of our minds to actually address this issue.
0:21:52
Just wanna speak briefly about RESO, 187, to collect a, environment environmental impact study on the Gunton Road Electric Depot, bus station.
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Since being elected to the council, I've had several conversations with MTA about this location within my district.
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It's a huge, vacant lot.
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And I believe conversations prior to me, coming into office, it was supposed to be reimagined to be some form of affordable housing for seniors.
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I believe that plan kind of fell through, and we're ended up here with this electric depot.
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Currently, right now, the state of this area is poor.
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The maintenance and just the dumping around this area, and the community has been frustrated with trying to contact and communicate this frustration with MTA.
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And that's why we're here, calling on this impact study to figure out how can we better address, this environmental issue within, you know, this area within Gun Hill Road in my district.
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So I'm really eager to hear from MTA.
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Looking forward to having, you know, future conversations about this area and seeing if we could come to some form of resolution.
0:23:12
Thank you, chair.
