Condo Build Dooming King Street Community Garden?

A Red Hook reader dropped a line to say there’s a rumor in the neighborhood that the King Street Garden, an unofficial community garden on Van Brunt and King, is going to be built over with a retail/condo development. No recent building permits have been filed for the site. Our tipster had this to say: “Combined with the mystery project on the corner of Imlay and Pioneer and the Yellin project at Pioneer and Conover, there is a lot of $$ getting thrown into Red Hook. My big concern is that a building from scratch is going to be horribly ugly…And we still have no transportation, and that’s not changing any time soon.” Evidently the people that used the garden were surprised when its owner changed the locks a couple weeks ago and then poured sand over all the plots. GMAP