[Neighbors] Triangle Park

[Stephen Mullens]

Thank you, Mary.

On Sat, Jul 26, 2025 at 12:00 AM Mary Henrie Smith via Neighbors_nobhill-nm
<neighbors_nobhill-nm at mailman.swcp.com> wrote:

> Jean, Elizabeth and Gary are spot on re the City’s pitiful plans for the
> diner and Triangle Park.
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> More than a month ago, I went to the substation to dispose of unwanted
> pharmaceuticals. The nice woman staffing the station told me that the City
> had removed the drop box and virtually all of the office equipment, because
> the mayor planned to close the station. She hadn’t been told the reason.
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> My beef? Once again, the highers-up make decisions without communicating
> with those who will be impacted. I am so tired of public officials
> dictating from the top down. I actually believe in a democracy where
> elected officials don’t make changes unless and until the public has been
> consulted. We weren’t even asked what we thought; just told that a decision
> without our input had been made and there was no turning back.
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> Today’s murder at UNM confirms that a police presence is critical to our
> neighborhood’s safety and well-being. An earlier email from the City’s
> Shelle Sanchez was the straw that broke this camel’s back. The City is
> committed to “transparency?” Hogwash. Were that true, Hilleños would have
> been asked early in this process to give their two cents about moving the
> diner to a place that still is not operating.
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> Years ago I asked a legislator to pass a law that prohibited public
> officials from using the word “transparency.” My point? That’s just a sound
> bite that public officials use, but don’t believe. I’m spitting into the
> wind but I still naively hope that elected officials communicate with their
> constituents. After all, there’s a municipal election in November.
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> Sorry about my rant. I’ll share it with Councilor Rogers in the hope that
> she cares about her constituents.
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> Mary H Smith
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> *From:* Neighbors_nobhill-nm <
> neighbors_nobhill-nm-bounces at mailman.swcp.com> *On Behalf Of *eachestnut---
> via Neighbors_nobhill-nm
> *Sent:* July 24, 2025 8:52 PM
> *To:* 'Jean Bernstein' <JBernstein at flyingstarcafe.com>;
> neighbors_nobhill-nm at mailman.swcp.com
> *Cc:* chat at nobhillmerchants.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Neighbors] Triangle Park
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> I totally agree with Jean: the City does NOT care about the diner, the
> trees, or anything else on Route 66. I spent two decades working on
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> a historic preservation project, with due respect the City did preserve
> what it could, but ultimately, it gave away this site and absolved
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> all responsibilities for public inputs about how the shared vision might
> occur in Nob Hill.  I believe Jean’s experienced this fact is
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> various ways and sympathize. For those who are new to this, there are 40
> plus years of examples of City lack of commitment to
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> Route 66 and or ways to preserve more of what might have been preserved.
> Kudos to the perseverance by Gary Eyster and others
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> Of Nob Hill’s community leaders in preserving, improving what is left.
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> Elizabeth of the De Anza Murals Project
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> *From:* Neighbors_nobhill-nm <
> neighbors_nobhill-nm-bounces at mailman.swcp.com> *On Behalf Of *Jean
> Bernstein via Neighbors_nobhill-nm
> *Sent:* Monday, July 21, 2025 4:24 PM
> *To:* neighbors_nobhill-nm at mailman.swcp.com
> *Cc:* chat at nobhillmerchants.org
> *Subject:* [Neighbors] Triangle Park
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> All,
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> I’ll be brief. I’ve read the communications  between the neighborhood and
> CABQ regarding the removal of the old diner at Triangle Park. Let’s face
> it, it’s clear, they’ve already made their decision – the diner will be
> moved to the huge failure Route 66 Center on West Central. *The City does
> not care one bit about what the people and businesses of Nob Hill want –
> they have proven this over and over from administration to administration.*
> Recently, I politely asked if some of the overgrown trees on Central could
> be removed (trimming does not work) in the instances where they completely
> obliterate business signage. I specifically mentioned our own Flying Star
> vintage neon, which has some historic value and charm. I was not asking for
> a hand out, I offered to pay to remove the tree and replant or buy a new
> tree in a more deserving place. There are about 7 trees on our block, the
> loss of one to uncover a very cool neon would not cause any significant
> changes to the block or the street canopy. And, a reminder that I was never
> consulted as to the type of trees that have grown ridiculously too large
> for a commercial street. This one tree makes it impossible to identify our
> business, the same issue for other businesses along Central Nob Hill. (And,
> to move large, exterior signage is unbelievably expensive, especially when
> the sign is in need of repair and updating.) A representative of the
> Mayor’s office told me in no uncertain terms that the tree was extremely
> valuable to the climate/environment, with no mention of my business’
> wellbeing….
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> Again, the City decides to do what they want to do, whenever they want to
> do it. The “park” to replace the diner will take years, in the meantime Nob
> Hill will have an empty, weed infested, ugly space as its welcome to
> travelers. I figure they’ll get around to taking bids for designs and
> building a possible park in about 2 years from now.
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> Neighbors, it’s time to get a petition started, make some noise, get
> together on this. Time and again, being appropriate, proper, asking instead
> of demanding, following the channels yields exactly NOTHING, except the
> continued degradation of our beloved Nob Hill.
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>
>
> Jean Bernstein
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