The Post and Times reported on Tuesday’s ruling by a judge that upholds an earlier preliminary injunction blocking the transfer of Dumbo’s Tobacco Warehouse to arts group St. Ann’s Warehouse. In the ruling, Judge Eric Vitaliano found that the National Park Service “acted outside of its legal authority” when it redrew maps so that both the Tobacco Warehouse and the Empire Stores were no longer considered federal parkland. Jim Walden, a lawyer representing community groups that sued over the structures’ remapping, says the decision makes it clear that “all agencies — city, state and federal — failed in their obligations to the public, putting their ‘vision’ for a private theater above their duties to the public.” The ruling leaves St. Ann’s Warehouse scrambling for a new home since it must leave its longtime Dumbo space next year to make way for Two Trees’ Dock Street development; its artistic director says the organization has recently been looking at spaces in Downtown Brooklyn and Manhattan.
Ruling Ends Theater’s Bid for Brooklyn Waterfront [NY Times]
Judge Rips Bldgs. Boot [NY Post]