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North Heights - your comment is really unfair and disingenuous. Walentas has produced tons of renderings showing what the building would look like on the Brooklyn side. If you care about this issue (as you seem to) you must have seen these. So don't pretend that this is the only image walentas is using. This drawing was produced to respond to a specific allegation that was made at the hearing that this building will have the same impact on views of the bridge as the hated verizon building had on the Mnahattan side. To me, this image does a pretty good job of blowing that bogus claim out of the water.

Posted by: Make My Heights the P Heights at January 14, 2009 10:05 AM

AndYOuWillKnowUs - pretty much every one of your issues is incorrect and just fear mongering. I spend alot of time in DUMBO, specifically on that block. That block is already in shadows for most of the day because of the height of empires stores, the height of the buildings across the street and the narrowness of the street. Once you are in the shadows, I don't think another building can put you MORE in the shadows. Also - who cares if the building casts a shadow on Empire Stores? From the renderings I've seen, it will in no way lok like it is on top of or towering over the bridge. The bridge pier will still be significantly taller than this building. In all likelihood the new building will blend into the background with the other similarly sized DUMBO buildings along Main Street and Washington St. Finally - yes, the garage is large and will likely lead to an increase in car traffic in the area. But having spent alot of time on those streets I can attest to the fact that those are some of the most deserted streets I've ever been on in a gentrified part of brooklyn. You can stand on Water Street for any given hour of the day and the most you'll see is maybe one car per minute go by. That's nothing. You can add alot more traffic to those streets without even coming close to "nightmare traffic" the fact remains that DUMBO is kind of a dead end. Noone goes through DUMBO to get somewhere else. The only traffic in DUMBO comes from people who are specifically going there, and for all it's hype, it's still a pretty small neighborhood (population-wise. Just take a chill pill and calm down. This building will be good for DUMBO.

Posted by: Make My Heights the P Heights at January 14, 2009 10:18 AM

ROb - nice job hijacking this thread. Anyone with any sense knows that NYC is a pretty big place. Plenty of space for those who want to live out their "edgey" lives unencumbered by the moral obligation to protect the delicate sensibilities of children. And plenty of space for breeders who want to ensure that, above all else, their kids grow up in a safe environment. As a matter of fact - those two camps are not mutually exclusive as most people start out in one and eventually move into the other (and some even move back into the first one again, eventually).

Posted by: Make My Heights the P Heights at January 14, 2009 11:49 AM