'It's all that we have left. It’s our one sacred space,” said community member Norman Eng of Reggie Wong Park.
Environmental hazards in Chinatown’s only recreational park are at the center of a yearslong battle for open space in the neighborhood.
The park, about a third of an acre in size, is made up of a few basketball hoops and a court for playing volleyball at the corner of Lincoln and Kneeland Streets, beside an old steam plant, a state-owned parking lot and ramps to I-93. Despite its small footprint, the park is a celebrated hub for the Asian American community’sand remains one of the only places to play or exercise outdoors in Chinatown.
“For those of you that know about the history of Chinatown and know about the highway, and everything that we've gone through in our community, know that this piece of land is ours,” he said, speaking out into the crowd. “That's the thing about being in Chinatown. You don't get to negotiate with the government. They negotiate for you.”The park and surrounding area are one of the last remaining sites to be cleaned up after the Big Dig, and in 2016, the area was. That’s when the community started organizing for formal control of the park.Negotiation and remediation
Representatives from DOT declined to be interviewed, but said in an email that it’s ready, with the state’s Department of Environmental Protection, to clean up the asbestos, and confirmed the agency is in discussions with the community to consider its requests. Ezra Haber Glenn, lecturer of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT, says it’s not unusual for negotiations with the state to take years, but it’s especially complicated when bureaucracies overlap, like when a city park is owned by a state agency.
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