CPC: Yes to Dock Street Dumbo, But Cut 1 Story

The City Planning Commission voted today in favor of rezoning the Dock Street location to residential with a vote of 11-2. The vote was “the most difficult to date” according to Amanda Burden, Chair of the City Planning Commission. The CPC recommended that the building be cut by one story, as reported by the Brooklyn Paper:

In ordering a height reduction and the cut-out section from the mid-rise portion of the building, the Commission seemed to at least be partially swayed by a late push by Brooklyn Bridge historian David McCullough, who visited the fabled span this month to call for the Walentas proposal to not only be halted, but for other buildings around the bridge to be demolished for a national park.

McCullough’s viewpoint was published in Newsweek last week. The next step of the process will move to the City Council for a vote.

The Dumbo Neighborhood Alliance (DNA) has been a vocal opposition to the height, distance, and the mass of the proposed development and will no doubt be releasing a statement. We received word from them that in addition to David McCullough, several celebrities will be starring in supporting roles in their grass roots campaign. Gabriel Byrne of The Usual Suspects and HBO’s In Treatment, Helen Hunt of As Good as It Gets and Mad About You, Gary Sinise of The Green Mile and Forrest Gump, Ana Gasteyer of Saturday Night Live and Mean Girls, Emmy Award winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns of Brooklyn Bridge and The Civil War fame and Skipp Sudduth of Third Watch and Law & Order have all added their support to the opposition of the proposed 18-story building.

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  • A whole floor! What a compromise…

  • A whole floor! What a compromise…

  • Well there goes my penthouse!

    No2Walentas2Trees, why don’t you throw yourself onto some of the railroad tracks running through the neighborhood. Maybe that will stop the building.

  • Well there goes my penthouse!

    No2Walentas2Trees, why don’t you throw yourself onto some of the railroad tracks running through the neighborhood. Maybe that will stop the building.

  • When this thing doesn’t get built, what will you say then?

    Just watch and learn little stool. As people across the nation become aware of this, watch your little penthouse become a shack.

  • When this thing doesn’t get built, what will you say then?

    Just watch and learn little stool. As people across the nation become aware of this, watch your little penthouse become a shack.

  • Hilarious. The rest of the world moves on and No2 is still a loony tune.

  • Hilarious. The rest of the world moves on and No2 is still a loony tune.

  • Brooklyn Love:

    Hilarious? What I find ‘Hilarious’ is that somehow who speak for ‘The rest of the World’…that’s hilarious as you and your supporters are in a minority.

    What I find ‘loony tuney’ is that none of you have bothered to notice the 800 pound gorilla in the room.

    Let me tell you about the 800 pound gorilla, it is called the economy, which keeps taking nose dives, so much so, the head of Freddie Mac CFO has committed suicide. You people are living in a fantasy, the fantasy or hope that ‘things will get better’. We are entering another great depression but ‘spend spend spend’ is still the status quo.

    Have you notice all the new construction? Have any of you bothered to ask where are the tenants for this building, let alone all the others in the area are going to come from- NO. You are delusional to think this will get built when even Silverstein has pushed the estimate of the freedom tower by decades, why? NO TENANTS! The economy is in shambles and you people refuse to see that. Now when the time comes to break ground and TT realizes they will build this at a loss for themselves, watch your tower disappear.

    So ask yourself, ‘Brooklyn Love’ (an oxymoron as you don’t love brooklyn), why would a developer build something that will cost him more than what he will make?

    Let me introduce you to reality, in case you are living in a cave:

    http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Jobs-housing-data-undermine-apf-15017607.html

    ” WASHINGTON (AP) — Worse-than-expected news on unemployment and home sales Thursday dampened optimism that a broad economic recovery might be near.

    Many analysts don’t expect the housing slide to show signs of stabilizing until the second half of this year. They said layoffs may be at their high point, but that the jobless rate, already at a 25-year high, will keep rising until the middle of 2010″

    No jobs equals no tenants which means no profit, it means a loss. Construction jobs which are the only thing this building will produce will be a temporary fix and I am sure the non union workers won’t be able to afford the rent.

    As for the rest of the World, the news is just as bad:

    http://finance.yahoo.com/news/10-Countries-in-Deep-usnews-14971805.html?.&.pf=real-estate

    “While the collapsing U.S. housing market may be at the root of the global economic recession, the downturn’s effects are being felt hardest overseas. Take Iceland, for instance. Its biggest banks failed, its economy may shrink 10 percent this year, its government fell, its central banker was sacked, the country was bailed out with a $2.1 billion IMF loan, and 7,000 people (in a country of 300,000) took to the streets in protest.”

    So guess what my delusional friend, the rest of the World is in the tank which means, no exports of U.S. products. No exports equals no jobs, equals no tenants again.

    So keep wishing it, when time comes to break ground, there will be no money to spare on ambitious projects.

    So please, before you suggest you know how the rest of the World feels (ie your small circle of friends), perhaps you should take a dose of reality. It may help you in your sickness.

  • Brooklyn Love:

    Hilarious? What I find ‘Hilarious’ is that somehow who speak for ‘The rest of the World’…that’s hilarious as you and your supporters are in a minority.

    What I find ‘loony tuney’ is that none of you have bothered to notice the 800 pound gorilla in the room.

    Let me tell you about the 800 pound gorilla, it is called the economy, which keeps taking nose dives, so much so, the head of Freddie Mac CFO has committed suicide. You people are living in a fantasy, the fantasy or hope that ‘things will get better’. We are entering another great depression but ‘spend spend spend’ is still the status quo.

    Have you notice all the new construction? Have any of you bothered to ask where are the tenants for this building, let alone all the others in the area are going to come from- NO. You are delusional to think this will get built when even Silverstein has pushed the estimate of the freedom tower by decades, why? NO TENANTS! The economy is in shambles and you people refuse to see that. Now when the time comes to break ground and TT realizes they will build this at a loss for themselves, watch your tower disappear.

    So ask yourself, ‘Brooklyn Love’ (an oxymoron as you don’t love brooklyn), why would a developer build something that will cost him more than what he will make?

    Let me introduce you to reality, in case you are living in a cave:

    http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Jobs-housing-data-undermine-apf-15017607.html

    ” WASHINGTON (AP) — Worse-than-expected news on unemployment and home sales Thursday dampened optimism that a broad economic recovery might be near.

    Many analysts don’t expect the housing slide to show signs of stabilizing until the second half of this year. They said layoffs may be at their high point, but that the jobless rate, already at a 25-year high, will keep rising until the middle of 2010″

    No jobs equals no tenants which means no profit, it means a loss. Construction jobs which are the only thing this building will produce will be a temporary fix and I am sure the non union workers won’t be able to afford the rent.

    As for the rest of the World, the news is just as bad:

    http://finance.yahoo.com/news/10-Countries-in-Deep-usnews-14971805.html?.&.pf=real-estate

    “While the collapsing U.S. housing market may be at the root of the global economic recession, the downturn’s effects are being felt hardest overseas. Take Iceland, for instance. Its biggest banks failed, its economy may shrink 10 percent this year, its government fell, its central banker was sacked, the country was bailed out with a $2.1 billion IMF loan, and 7,000 people (in a country of 300,000) took to the streets in protest.”

    So guess what my delusional friend, the rest of the World is in the tank which means, no exports of U.S. products. No exports equals no jobs, equals no tenants again.

    So keep wishing it, when time comes to break ground, there will be no money to spare on ambitious projects.

    So please, before you suggest you know how the rest of the World feels (ie your small circle of friends), perhaps you should take a dose of reality. It may help you in your sickness.

  • Number2Walentas2Trees, does this mean you’re not going to throw yourself on the tracks?

  • Number2Walentas2Trees, does this mean you’re not going to throw yourself on the tracks?

  • Yawn

    Loose stool: “I’m a big boy…I know how to use the computer, yay me”

    Too bad stool….I heard you are upset that you can no longer smoke your crack in the Manhattan Bridge. Don’t worry, as the economy tanks, you’ll get many places and sources for your rock.

  • Yawn

    Loose stool: “I’m a big boy…I know how to use the computer, yay me”

    Too bad stool….I heard you are upset that you can no longer smoke your crack in the Manhattan Bridge. Don’t worry, as the economy tanks, you’ll get many places and sources for your rock.

  • No2…please find your own material. Loose stool is very upset he lost his crack den and is just lashing out.

  • No2…please find your own material. Loose stool is very upset he lost his crack den and is just lashing out.