May 24,2018
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, at Wednesday nights council meeting several residents strenuously objected to work on the green pathway or grassy knoll at the Village train station . Since early 2017 the Village council has explored the idea of shrinking the green way at the train station in order to add more parking spaces to the train station parking lot. This was an idea that was put forward the Village engineer some would suggest as far back as 2 years ago. The Village engineer Christopher Rutishauser submitted the application for the changes to the DEP in July of 2017.
It appears a group led by Cynthia Halaby, the president of the Conservancy for Ridgewood Public Lands in Ridgewood made various statements declaring the need for preserving the green space or “grassy knoll” at the train station , yes the same Cynthia Halaby that supported laying a turf field at Schedler Park and clear cutting the trees there.
While Ms Halaby , did seem to have some clue about the green strip , other speakers appeared to have missed the last year and a half discussions about the train station parking lot and for that matter didn’t seem to even know what the grassy median or “grassy knoll “at the train station was.
Once again it’s amazing how when a pota-potty sat in the train station median grassy knoll for months in 2015 no one uttered a peep about its visibility at the Ridgewood Train Station Historic district.
https://theridgewoodblog.net/porta-potty-was-ok-but-parking-challenged-at-the-ridgewood-train-station-historic-district/
