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November 30, 2007
Army Corps of Engineers Getting a Free Pass?
We all know that homeowners get slapped with a fine for not cleaning up the leaves on their sidewalk. But what happens when the Army Corps of Engineers, which has mastered the art of shirking its responsibility at Officers Row over recent decades, fails to maintain its share of the public sidewalk out in front?
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Fine them like the city does to everybody else.
Posted by: guest at November 30, 2007 4:08 PM
I am going to take a WAG at it and say nothing.
Posted by: guest at November 30, 2007 4:23 PM
Same thing that happens when the properties they were overseeing fell into ruin: nothing.
Posted by: guest at November 30, 2007 4:33 PM
Thought those were pathmark flyers on the sidewalk :)
Posted by: guest at November 30, 2007 4:34 PM
Wow, it's a slow news day, huh?
Posted by: guest at November 30, 2007 4:40 PM
I love the way the leaves look. Homeowners should be allowed to let the leaves disintegrate on their own.
Posted by: guest at November 30, 2007 4:59 PM
4:59 - When it rains and the leaves become a slippery mess. Somebody slips and falls. Homeowner get sued.
Posted by: guest at November 30, 2007 5:32 PM
Why do you hate America?
Posted by: guest at November 30, 2007 5:45 PM
Brownstoner, you've got to change your headline. It's the city that is shirking its responsibility. The US government transferred the Navy Yards to the city and then held on to Officer's Row. But they gave it over eventually to the city as well. And then the city just let the row rot. Leaves are just more evidence that the city and the navy yard authority (which is a private corp now I believe run for the city) could care less about the neighborhood. They must be making money now from the studios and everything else they have in the Navy Yards. And yet they have conspired to screw over the neighborhood by putting in a box store when they are good and ready in place of the historic row houses they just let rot. Reminds me of Angor Wat or something. They should just open it up to the public and stabilize the buildings and then get them renovated as much as possible.
Posted by: guest at November 30, 2007 6:30 PM
Nope. The transfer to the Navy Yard hasn't happened yet--most likely within the next couple of months though.
Posted by: brownstoner at November 30, 2007 6:36 PM
Hmm. That's like a DOT giving itslef a ticket for double parking or cop getting a ticket for red light on the way to Dunkin doughnuts.
Posted by: guest at November 30, 2007 7:04 PM
Guest 6:30,
Pretty much everthing you said is wrong. As B'stoner noted, the land is still very much owned by the feds. Also, although the Navy Yard is getting rent from the studios, over all they still do not make enough money to cover their enormous capital expenses. There are huge chunks of the Navy Yard's infrastructure that need to be replaced (electricity, water, sewer, roads). And just stabilizing the building buildings and opening them up would cost tens of millions of dollars. That's not as easy as you make it sound.
-Ella
Posted by: guest at December 1, 2007 7:18 PM
There's a hearing coming up on the 11th. everyone should attend.
Admiral's Row Public Hearing P.S. 307 (202 York Street @ Gold Street in DUMBO)
Dec 11, 7PM - For Info call 1-703-607-2780
http://www.brooklynsothermuseumofbrooklyn.com/
http://www.brooklynsothermuseumofbrooklyn.com/Resized/Admrow/ANGLetter111907.pdf
Posted by: guest at December 1, 2007 7:41 PM
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