While that site is infinitely better than Jerome Park, we still believe that the site just north of Shandler is preferable. Once Jerome Park is permanently off the table, we may be looking at bad alternatives, but not one that will destroy the great residential and educational community of Van Cortlandt Village. Talk about the destruction of 100-year old trees doesn't impress us. As you read this you may be sitting on a chair made from a tree that old. Trees can be replanted.
Communities are far more fragile.
This area of Van Cortlandt Park is little used. We are loathe to sacrifice it, but there may be a greater good to be served. There are groups that will oppose this. They may be Friends of the Park or Friends of the Trees or Friends of the Birds. What we need are Friends of the Van Cortlandt Village Community and the people who live there.