Supporters

The following people have gone on record supporting a trial car-ban (a three month car-free trial period) in Prospect Park:

All five City Councilmembers whose districts surround Prospect Park, representing half a million people:

  • Mathieu Eugene
  • Letitia James
  • Bill De Blasio
  • David Yassky

Read the City Councilmembers' letter of support.

3 Former NYC Department of Transportation Commissioners:

  • Lucius Riccio, former NYC DOT Commissioner
  • "Gridlock" Sam Schwartz, former NYC DOT First Deputy Commissioner
  • Eliot "Lee" Sander, former NYC DOT Commissioner

Empire State Transportation Alliance: represents every major private and nonprofit sector organization in the downstate New York metropolitan area concerned with transportation policy:

100 Black Men | Alliance for Downtown New York (BID) | American Institute of Architects | American Planning Association NY Metro Chapter | Association for a Better New York | Business Labor Community Coalition | Council on Transportation | Environmental Defense | FIDO | General Contractors Association | Int'l Union of Operating Engineers | NYS Laborers Tri-Fund | Metro Tech BID | Natural Resources Defense Council | New York Building Congress | New York City Environmental Justice Alliance | New York League of Conservation Voters | New York City Transit Riders Council | NYPIRG Straphangers Campaign | Real Estate Board of New York | Regional Plan Association | Transport Workers Union, Local 100 | Transportation Alternatives | Tri-State Transportation Campaign

Other Environmental and Civic Groups: Auto-Free New York, Fast & Fabulous, Municipal Arts Society, New York Audubon, Sierra Club New York Chapter, Time's Up.

25,000 people who have written letters and postcards to their elected officials and agency heads.

500 people who appeared at the 1998 Borough Hall Public Hearing, and 75 people who testified in favor of car-free park.