Dear Editor:
To the woman who accused me of making false statements about the preschool and Braddock Park – read again.
I wrote “Chances of bites from ticks, rats, groundhogs, skunks, snakes, etc. is much greater in the park than in the community.”
How can you argue with that statement?
BTW, there are ticks because there are deer in Braddock Park.
Condoms? Just look in the woods a few feet behind the preschool, or if you prefer, watch this video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyHqSj6KFnM
Do an internet search for “braddock park body” and you’ll find lots of news stories about bodies found near the preschool, 4 out of the last 5 years.
And if you expected to see the cancer causing chemical (formaldehyde), you won’t be able to see it – but it should have been tested for it when the trailers were new. And when the two trailers that burned down three years ago were replaced.
Regarding your 10 million dollar savings, have you researched that, or do you blindly take the word of the officials?
Have you asked them how much they spent on lawyers for the high school football case that they wanted to take to the US Supreme Court?
Or how much we could have saved if there was better oversight of the North Bergen departments that suffer from corruption related activities?
Finally, we will not be gaining park land, as you assert in your “win-win” statement.
The River Road “park” will be a parking lot, not a park.
The Paterson Plank Rd. park is an insult to the residents who live there. It has been in a landslide twice and only part of it is useable.
The Hoboken park is already built, so it’s not adding any new park land.
For this we should lose a couple of acres of Braddock Park, after we’ve been losing more and more of it due to “renovations” that fence everyone out who doesn’t have a permit to use the artificially surfaced field?
Maybe also build a new high school or fire department, how about a city hall in Braddock Park?
Or let other Hudson County towns do the same (it’s their park also).
The preschool never should have been brought into the park and now it’s time for it to go.
There’s no reason it can’t be just as good a school out in the community and as an added bonus, we will still have the whole park available as a park for you and your family to visit.
To add your name to a petition on this issue, visit https://www.change.org/p/jose-munoz-save-james-braddock-park-in-north-bergen-nj.
Robert Walden