🌱 Activists Continue The Fight To Preserve East River Park

Happy Halloween! I am your host Patrick Murray bringing you the latest from the neighborhood on this holiday weekend.

First, today's weather:

Cloudy and breezy with a high of 62 and a low of 50.

Here are the top stories today in Lower East Side-Chinatown:

1. Activist attorney Arthur Schwartz was in court at the Appellate Division, arguing an appeal on the lawsuit attempting to block the city's East Side Coastal Resiliency plan. The plan would basically bury the East River Park under 10 feet of landfill, destroying the 82-year-old park and the nearly 1,000 mature trees it is home to. Activists plan to meet at sunrise on Nov. 1, the date which demolition of the park is slated to begin. (The Village Sun)

Today in Lower East Side-Chinatown:

• Get Vote Ready! (10 a.m.)
• Halloween trick or treating at Corlears Hook Park. (9:00 AM)
• Sunday Sqool comedy at Sour Mouse. (7:30 p.m.)

Lower East Side-Chinatown Patch Notebook

• Animal Haven introducing 7-year-old Winifred Sanderson! (Facebook)
• Grand St. Settlement getting into the spirit of Halloween! (Facebook)
• Be on the lookout for the Lower East Side Ecology Center's expansion of their compost drop-off sites. (Facebook)

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— Patrick Murray

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