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...nothing personal, just free-market forces at work?" While the Times editorial page spoke about the nuisance of ghetto kids trying to earn a few dimes by washing windshields, Schanberg put David Rockefeller and Alfonse D'Amato in the spotlight, questioning their role in trying to bulldoze Westway through a city of concerned citizens...
...more incisive criticism, Schanberg commented that while the restaurant story made the front page, it was odd that the Times "[couldn't] seem to find space for Westway and its scandal...
After more than a decade of political debate, court battles and environmental disputes, New York officials last week finally gave up on Westway, the $2.3 billion, six-lane extravaganza proposed to replace a decayed section of Manhattan's West Side Highway. The project was to have been built through 169 acres of landfill in the Hudson River, with real estate development and a park on top. It had the support of New York's major politicians, builders and newspapers. But a number of vocal and tenacious critics called the project environmentally unsound and a waste of money. Westway's major...
...your organization was founded by six Washington newspaperwomen in 1919," the President told the Washington Press Club in 1981. Pausing like Jack Benny, he added: "It seems like only yesterday." Yet he uses comedy too. Once in New York he delivered a fine line at a ceremony involving the Westway highway project, apologizing to the crowd that James Watt would have been present had he not been on assignment strip mining the Rose Garden...
President Reagan, however, has reaffirmed support for Manhattan's Westway, a six-lane superhighway slated to run for 4.6 miles along the Hudson River. The highway, with an estimated price tag of $1.7 billion, would receive 90% of its funding from the Federal Government. New York City Mayor Edward Koch has blocked the project in an effort to get parallel funds from Albany for mass transit improvements or to get Governor Hugh Carey to ask Washington to trade in highway funds for transit money...