In Crain's former state housing commissioner and original chairman of the Battery Park City Authority Charles J. Urstadt has a modest proposal for the de Blasio administration: fill in the Harlem River. He writes, "Filling in the Harlem River, which is seven miles long and on average more than 400 feet wide, while leaving room for a beautiful stream in the center, would create 400 to 800 acres of land—four to eight times the size of Battery Park City. Planners would have a free hand to dream big about the kinds of development New York needs most." [Crain's; previously]
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