70 Washington Street, Dumbo Brooklyn, 12/2006
Previously:
{New 70 Washington Street Website}
{Helen Brough’s “Emulated Flora†at 70 Washington St.}
70 Washington Street, Dumbo Brooklyn, 12/2006
Previously:
{New 70 Washington Street Website}
{Helen Brough’s “Emulated Flora†at 70 Washington St.}
Paper Street Real Estate LLC., a real estate brokerage headquartered in Downtown Manhattan on 85 Broad Street New York, NY 10004, has already marked how quickly they find buyers for their client’s listings. “On average, we are able to get into contract with qualified buyers by the third week of a property being on the…
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Friday, 12/14 The Jungle @ St. Ann’s Warehouse, 7:30pm, $36+, more info Saturday, 12/15 Ed Center Open Hours @ Brooklyn Bridge Park, 1-5pm, FREE, more info The Jungle @ St. Ann’s Warehouse, 7:30pm, $36+, more info Sunday, 12/16 Elisabeth Smolarz: Photo Sessions @ Smack Mellon, 12:30 pm, FREE, more info Ed Center Open Hours @ Brooklyn Bridge Park, 1-5pm,…
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Brooklyn Bridge Park will replace problem-plagued Squibb Bridge [Curbed NY] Longtime Brooklyn Bridge Park ice cream Shop will become another Ample Hills [Eater NY] Brooklyn Bridge Park getting squash court at Pier 2 [Brooklyn Paper] Here’s a solution for fixing the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway: get rid of it [New York Magazine] Brooklyn Heights townhouse joins…
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Friday, 12/7 The Jungle @ St. Ann’s Warehouse, 7:30pm, $36+, more info Saturday, 12/8 Ed Center Open Hours @ Brooklyn Bridge Park, 1-5pm, FREE, more info The Jungle @ St. Ann’s Warehouse, 7:30pm, $36+, more info Sunday, 12/9 Ed Center Open Hours @ Brooklyn Bridge Park, 1-5pm, FREE, more info The Haggard Kings @ Superfine, 12pm, FREE,…
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One of New York City’s most iconic views may soon disappear (video) [Travel+Leisure] City’s plan to fix BQE is ‘highway to Hell,’ local group says [Patch] Come see the beloved, endangered Promenade [Brooklyn Daily Eagle] Floods drench these NYC neighborhoods most, study shows [Patch] New rentals in Dumbo offer 1 month free on 13-month lease…
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It’s still not a damn park!
January13, 2007
The Brooklyn Paper
We’ve been saying it for more than half a decade, but this week,
state planners once again admitted that their luxury residential,
commercial and open space development along the DUMBO and Brooklyn Heights waterfront is not a park.
Sure, they’ll continue to use the name “Brooklyn Bridge Park†when publicly describing their 1.3- mile-long site, but in court — where they’re being sued by advocates of a real park on the grounds that putting housing in a park is illegal — planners have admitted it’s no park.
Where once the development’s lawyers called their scheme a “civic project†— a term that links it to such visionary open spaces as Central Park and Prospect Park — legal papers are now calling it a “civic and land-use project.â€
This is not a simple little change of language.
The basis for the lawsuit against this project — which allows a handful of private developers to circumvent city regulations and taxes to create luxury apartments, a hotel and cafes — has been that it violates state law forbidding just such a thing.
So if the court takes the backers of “Brooklyn Bridge Park†at their word — i.e., that they’ve been lying for years about intending to build, first and foremost, an actual, accessible, usable public park — the opponents will have proven their point but lost their legal foundation.
• • •
Before state economic development officials (not parks officials) got involved in planning this project,
local civic leaders were designing a bona-fide park — a park that could be enjoyed by residents of
Brownstone Brooklyn (which abuts the site) and northern Brooklyn (which, despite the existence of
Prospect Park, is woefully “under-parkedâ€).
If local leaders are to be faulted, it was that they believed in the sincerity and good intentions of state
officials. Now, instead of a peoples’ park, we face the prospect of seeing our precious waterfront
being developed — at taxpayer expense — into a walled-off sanctuary for the wealthy.
The courtroom name change allows real-park advocates to say, “We told you so,†but their battle was lost years earlier when control was ceded to economic development officials whose primary role in New York State is to hand over land to private developers with little oversight (Atlantic Yards, anyone?).
If the park component of “Brooklyn Bridge Park†must be “self-supporting,†that goal should be pursued under the direction and control of parks people, not luxury housing developers.
©2007 The Brooklyn Paper
It’s still not a damn park!
January13, 2007
The Brooklyn Paper
We’ve been saying it for more than half a decade, but this week,
state planners once again admitted that their luxury residential,
commercial and open space development along the DUMBO and Brooklyn Heights waterfront is not a park.
Sure, they’ll continue to use the name “Brooklyn Bridge Park†when publicly describing their 1.3- mile-long site, but in court — where they’re being sued by advocates of a real park on the grounds that putting housing in a park is illegal — planners have admitted it’s no park.
Where once the development’s lawyers called their scheme a “civic project†— a term that links it to such visionary open spaces as Central Park and Prospect Park — legal papers are now calling it a “civic and land-use project.â€
This is not a simple little change of language.
The basis for the lawsuit against this project — which allows a handful of private developers to circumvent city regulations and taxes to create luxury apartments, a hotel and cafes — has been that it violates state law forbidding just such a thing.
So if the court takes the backers of “Brooklyn Bridge Park†at their word — i.e., that they’ve been lying for years about intending to build, first and foremost, an actual, accessible, usable public park — the opponents will have proven their point but lost their legal foundation.
• • •
Before state economic development officials (not parks officials) got involved in planning this project,
local civic leaders were designing a bona-fide park — a park that could be enjoyed by residents of
Brownstone Brooklyn (which abuts the site) and northern Brooklyn (which, despite the existence of
Prospect Park, is woefully “under-parkedâ€).
If local leaders are to be faulted, it was that they believed in the sincerity and good intentions of state
officials. Now, instead of a peoples’ park, we face the prospect of seeing our precious waterfront
being developed — at taxpayer expense — into a walled-off sanctuary for the wealthy.
The courtroom name change allows real-park advocates to say, “We told you so,†but their battle was lost years earlier when control was ceded to economic development officials whose primary role in New York State is to hand over land to private developers with little oversight (Atlantic Yards, anyone?).
If the park component of “Brooklyn Bridge Park†must be “self-supporting,†that goal should be pursued under the direction and control of parks people, not luxury housing developers.
©2007 The Brooklyn Paper