SInce New York Fashion Week moved to Damrosch Park from Bryant Park in 2010, neighbors have had to battle event after event for time in the park - and they've had enough.
"It's an assault on the neighborhood," local lawyer Michael Graff told the New York Times through the white noise of generators used to power white tents for the fashion shows.
Mr. Graff isn't the only one decrying the pandemonium.
Tuesday, residents alongside NYC Park Advocates, a nonprofit group, announced they released a "cease and desist" letter to the city and Lincoln Center.
According to the Times, city officials are not heading this letter with any diligence, rebuking the small coalition on the grounds that "Damrosch Park was a hard-surface plaza with few visitors in winter," and suggested they go to Central Park.
"Fashion Week generates $865 million in economic activity," a spokeswoman for Mayor Michael Bloomberg told the Times.
The gauntlet has been thrown down and the Park Advocates coalition is throwing everything they got at the city and Lincoln Center, but they have an answer for everything.
On one hand, the upright citizens brigade blatantly calls the retention of revenue from subleasing parking spaces near Lincoln Center illegal. However, city officials put down their attack that only the State Legislature can remove parkland, which is the result of these actions.
Although, to make way for the Fashion Week tents, the city removed 67 trees from the park.
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Damrosch Park: W. 62nd St., bet. Amsterdam and Columbus Aves.
