"I've lived in Hudson Square since 1984. I haven't just watched it change -- by living here, I've been part of making it change. The printers left. The factories left. The piers rotted into the river. But those of us who lived here all through that transition knew that an amazing, livable neighborhood was emerging from a century of misuse of Manhattan's Lower West Side. We've invested not just our money in the area, but our lives. Honestly, we can't believe that the Bloomberg administration would turn its back on a quarter century of progress, and destroy what hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers -- private citizens and public servants alike -- have built here."
Rosemary Kuropat (writer + photographer), partner in slover [AND] company, a design and marketing firm.
