Task Forces To Examine Plans for Old Firehouses
By Special to the Sun | March 1, 2007
The Bloomberg administration announced plans yesterday to create community task forces to examine the future use of closed firehouses.
The mayor's office has sought for months to sell firehouse sites throughout the city. The move to offer communities greater input in the process seems aimed at pacifying neighborhood opposition to its plans.
The task forces would likely recommend best uses for the sites, the mayor's office said, though their creation will not stall the sale process, three of which could appear before the city council in coming months.
Neighborhood activists and Councilman David Yassky have called on the mayor to slow the sale process, arguing that the firehouses, staffed or dormant, are valuable to communities.
