Linda Mariano (photo credit: Lisanne McTernan)About two weeks ago, I received a call from Joseph Alexiou of the New York Observer. He wanted to ask me a few questions about my friend, local activist Linda Mariano.
Oh, I had so much to tell him, dear Reader. Linda is not only an amazing person, she is also a founding member of the Friends Of Greater Gowanus (F.R.O.G.G.) together with Marlene Donnelly and Margaret Maugenest, also dear friends.
Linda, together with F.R.O.G.G., has been a very vocal supporter of the Environmental Protection Agency's Superfund designation of the Gowanus Canal. She has been tirelessly working on drawing attention to the heavily polluted canal and she deserves this community's thanks.
The New York Observer just published Mr. Alexiou's article on Mrs. Mariano. It is a great read.
He writes:
Oh, I had so much to tell him, dear Reader. Linda is not only an amazing person, she is also a founding member of the Friends Of Greater Gowanus (F.R.O.G.G.) together with Marlene Donnelly and Margaret Maugenest, also dear friends.
Linda, together with F.R.O.G.G., has been a very vocal supporter of the Environmental Protection Agency's Superfund designation of the Gowanus Canal. She has been tirelessly working on drawing attention to the heavily polluted canal and she deserves this community's thanks.
The New York Observer just published Mr. Alexiou's article on Mrs. Mariano. It is a great read.
He writes:
On a recent sunny Saturday morning, a group of 30- to 40-someting Carroll Gardens locals stood outside Carroll Park at a table manned by local community activists, their discussion rife with words like "developers" and "preservation." Upset that the nearby Hannah Senesh Community Day School was seeking a variance that would allow it to acquire public land, the activists were hard at work soliciting signatures for their petition against the change. Once I heard one of the concerned citizens utter the words "Superfund," and "Gowanus Canal," I had to ask, "Do any of you know Linda Mariano?"
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