"The impact would have been greater if Israel had frozen settlements, not released a few prisoners," says Yoni Figuel, an Israeli former military administrator of the central West Bank.
"There probably should have been more tonality," allowed Douglas Blonsky, the current president and chief executive of the conservancy and the administrator of Central Park.
Doug Blonsky President and CEO of the Central Park Conservancy Administrator of Central Park Thomas L. Kempner, Jr. Chairman Board of Trustees.
"You felt it was like a tornado," said Douglas Blonsky, president of the Central Park Conservancy and the administrator of Central Park.
The de facto thinning out of densely wooded areas is closer to what the park's original designers intended, said Douglas Blonsky, the Conservancy's president and the administrator of Central Park.
Ms. Thomas served four park commissioners and four mayors, and was often overshadowed by Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, the administrator of Central Park who was an Olmsted scholar and a city planner.
(Mr. Ong's colleagues call him the go-to guy for turtle rescuing. "He has caught more turtles than anybody — by far," said Douglas Blonsky, president of the Central Park Conservancy and the administrator of Central Park).
"The proposal is grandiose and overblown," he says, "but I would like to explore with this group and other where a half-acre site might go in Central Park... ......... Karen Putnam, the administrator of Central Park and the president of the Conservancy, is equally unlikely to give Kistner what she wants... "This plan would call for the relocation of a large number of people.
Doug Blonskey, the administrator of Central Park, acknowledged that, but he said that the skaters used an area set aside for them, and were not displacing others -- and that the city was cracking down on others who play unauthorized, amplified music.
"The proposal is grandiose and overblown," he says, "but I would like to explore with this group and other where a half-acre site might go in Central Park... ..... Karen Putnam, the administrator of Central Park and the president of the Conservancy, is equally unlikely to give Kistner what she wants... "This plan would call for the relocation of a large number of people.
"The reality is that in an event like the one we just had, there isn't enough capacity in the entire world to get the entrapped victims out and out quickly," said Richard Eisner, who from 1984 to 2006 was regional administrator of north-central California's Office of Emergency Response.
