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A group of Greenpoint residents and City Council candidate Stephen Pierson intend to sue the City and developers to stop the Greenpoint Landing and 77 Commercial Street developments, whose 12 towers of 30 to 40 stories would bring thousands of new residents into the neighborhood. The lawsuit will argue that the City’s greenlighting of the two developments, which were said to have no negative environmental impact, was based on an inaccurate, outdated eight-year-old environmental impact study. At the very least, the suit will delay the developments until a potentially more sympathetic mayoral administration comes in, said Pierson. The group announced the suit at a rally Wednesday night where protesters held signs that said “the roof is too damn high” and “Greenpoint does not equal Midtown.” The waterfront was rezoned in 2005 despite opposition from the local community board, paving the way for large-scale development. Above, the future site of Park Tower Group’s Greenpoint Landing at the mouth of Newtown Creek on the East River. Do you think public outcry now has the potential to reverse the rezoning — or force a redesign of the two high-rise developments planned there?

G’pointers to Sue City, Developers Over “Inadequate” Waterfront Tower Studies [Brooklyn Paper]
Photo by Park Tower Group Via Crain’s


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  1. They didn’t have to zone this area as they did. And I can see where lots of residents wouldn’t like the plan. But… let’s not get all anti development, anti profit, free to be you and me here! Markets and private property work wonders. Centrally planned public private partnerships become corrupt inefficient boondoggles.

    Rents and private property values are determined by what others are willing to pay, and what the owner is willing to sell for. If you can’t swallow that you’re an A-hole ruining this country. Go back to school and learn how NYC got to be a place your foolish ass was attracted to in the first place. It was growth, competition for profit, creativity, freedom, and innovation. Not a bunch of sorry ass complainers and picketers living off an EBT card and artificially low rents.

    In america the good stuff should go to those who invent it or work for it. Not those who complain the loudest or those who get to the giveaway first in line!

  2. Seventy Five people represent thousands in Greenpoint. when the deal was done, the then city council woman for the district told the head of the Brooklyn Industrial Retention Network (Adam Friedman, now heads up The Pratt Center), that the offer included $20 million in job re training and other goodies. Community Groups were very divided over if they should withdraw their opposition. It is how the real estate lobby owns New York and moves out working class and middle class folks. The city council woman couldn’t turn down the deal and beat off the real estate interested. YEAH FOR THIS LAW SUIT. I say this as a daughter of developers who knows all the dirty tricks pulled.

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