http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/15/opinion/nyregionopinions/WEYonkers.html?ref=nyregionopinions
Letters to the Editor: From Today's New York Times
Yonkers’ Waterfront: Let’s Think Again
Published: April 15, 2007
Unfortunately, “A New Proposal to Rescue Yonkers’ Waterfront” (April 8) did not show the actual building design proposed by the London-based architect Will Alsop. The building is described as “color-spattered,” and indeed it would be a lively touch against the bland office towers in London’s Docklands complex.
But placed in the Hudson Valley the design is a monstrosity. The shape is awkward. The polychrome surface treatment is trivial and unrelated to the former powerhouse at its base. The scale is hideously out of proportion with the landscape.
After more than a century of industrial misuse of our shoreline, current planners seem determined to replace one blight with another. Mr. Alsop’s proposal has the virtue of being “green” architecture, but a building need not be outrageous and oversized to be environmentally sound or original.
Michelle Jacobs
Yonkers
To the Editor:
Yonkers is poised as bait for developers with a buck in their pocket but who want to earn three at the city’s expense. Traffic and overall planning theme and coherence are but two of the major hurdles.
We need to step back, take a deep breath and count to ten. “How should Yonkers look as gateway to the Hudson Valley?” should be the primary question on everyone’s minds.
Gary Miller
Yonkers
Parking is questioned in the Journal News.
Where can tower tenants park?
Aside from the fact that the design for the Glenwood Power Station on the Hudson in Yonkers is a monstrosity, I would like to know where they plan to park all the cars for the 390 apartments and condos, museum and restaurant? Do they plan on using Kennedy marina?
Nicholas Maggio
Yonkers
