(Temporary) Parking Lot on the Nova Clutch Site
August 8th, 2007
…at least until something is built on that spot.
August 4, 2007 (39 Front Street, Monthly parking $275)
One year ago: August, 2006
Previously:
{Nova Clutch building at 39 Front Street, 20Apr07}
{Goodbye Nova Clutch Building, 20Jun07}
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August 8th, 2007 at 1:08 am
Today, a parking lot. Tomorrow, a playground for the middle school. A little surprised, though, they haven’t painted it lime green. Yet.
And for all you cynics, there’s no correlation between the depletion of parking at The Triangle and this new $3,000/year outdoor parking lot. Nope. This was “a gift” to the community, from David Walentas to all of us. He saw the need. Again. That man’s benevolence just won’t quit. It’s making me a tad weepy. I need a Kleenex. I’m sorry. I get so emotional. The goodness.
It’s … it’s just so . . .beautiful. I feel such love.
August 8th, 2007 at 8:54 am
The Brooklyn Paper reported last Friday see http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/30/30/30_30parking.html that DOT and the BID are keeping their word about adding more parking after taking parking for the Triangle – article copied below
August 4, 2007 / News / The Stoop / Brooklyn Heights–Downtown
More parking for DUMBO
By Harry Cheadle
for The Brooklyn Paper
The city has begun phasing out the dreaded “loading zones” in DUMBO as part of a year-long attempt to create more parking spaces in the car-choked neighborhood.
“We hope to have it finished by the end of the year,” said Joseph Pamieri, the Department of Transportation’s Brooklyn Borough Commissioner.
The shift in parking priorities reflects the change in the area — warehouses now house coffee shops and boutiques rather than industry.
“The parking regulations are outdated,” said Tucker Reed, executive director of the DUMBO Improvement District. “They’re from the time when DUMBO was an industrial area. It’s pretty clear the neighborhood has changed to a residential and retail area.”
The change is coming slowly, as the DOT is examining the parking situation block by block. Once a decision is made to remove a “No Parking, 8 am–6 pm” sign, it takes 90 days for DOT to order and install the new sign.
Some parts of Pearl, Anchorage, and Jay streets have already been altered, and Front Street is next on the list, Reed said.
The move comes after the neighborhood lost roughly eight spaces in the creation of the Pearl Street sitting area.
The Improvement District and the city have been talking about making these changes for the past six months. As with many city projects, the work is going slowly, but it is being done.
Reed hopes that the transition will end sometime “in the near future.” After all, some of his employees at the Improvement District need parking just as much as anyone.
“Parking isn’t easy for anyone in DUMBO,” he said.
August 8th, 2007 at 11:56 am
I can’t believe it costs that much to park outside in a lot. To park in the JCondo garage it’s only $25 more.
August 10th, 2007 at 11:59 am
Concerning DOT’s ‘concern’ for the dearth of parking in DUMBO, is anyone else confused or aggravated about the THRICE weekly street cleaning on some blocks? I’m not sure how pervasive it is, but I live on Washington St., and I can’t for the life of me understand the need 3 times a week street cleaning. Other than a opportunity for the city to bleed taxpayers further w/ fines from not so nimble drivers. Other Brooklyn neighborhoods have once a week street cleaning. There’s no street trash problem around here- just construction debris & destroyed Belgian Blocks. Is anyone else perturbed about this?
August 10th, 2007 at 12:20 pm
There IS a problem with trash in Dumbo, but only on the North side of the Manhattan Bridge. It is especially bad on Front St and Bridge St. They should direct some of that attention to the other side of the neighborhood.
August 10th, 2007 at 2:16 pm
I live on Front Street north of the Manhattan Bridge and the street is generally pretty clean – it is swept at least once per side each week. The cars on our block are towed all the time for cleaning. We saw two get hauled away this morning.
I know it’s August and trash gets extra ripe, but the little restaurant, Bridge Front Cafe may have some of the smelliest trash in Dumbo. Their sidewalks could use a regular washing.
August 10th, 2007 at 2:39 pm
Its the bums who cause a lot of the trash. One of them has a stash of junk in an unused doorway along Front St, and I’ve seen a few of them rifling though the trashcans and discarding anything they don’t want on the street.
August 10th, 2007 at 2:54 pm
The bums all wander over from the Farragut projects, thats the problem. There are actually no homeless people in Dumbo, only panhandlers with perfectly good homes already.
The daily migration of the bums, a steady column along Front St into Dumbo, reminds me a little of the seasonal movements of the birds. Perhaps we could take our cue from the scientists and dart them with a tracking device? Knowing their migratory patterns would be very useful indeed for the BID/DNA.
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