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While every available square foot on 4th Avenue between Park Slope and Gowanus seems to be host to a new condo in some stage of planning or construction, the large city-owned lot between Union and Sackett has been sitting undeveloped. We’re not sure which arm of the city owns this, or what the plans are for the property. Anyone know? What do you think would work here? GMAP P*Shark


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  1. About 10 or 12 years ago I was walking by that site; the gate was open a bit and I asked the guy at the gate if I could see what they were building. He let me walk over to the construction area. There was a small wall about three feet high, forming a giant circle, about 50′ in diameter. I walked over to the edge and looked down, and saw to my amazement it was a huge hole in the ground, going down maybe a thousand feet, like an inverted skyscraper; with some little people way down at the bottom and a bucket moving stuff up and down. I’ll never forget it.

  2. I was actually shown an apartment on 675 a week ago and the agent said that the space is a water testing facility that is going to be turned into a Japanese garden (or something) that actually won’t be accessible to the public. (A grain of salt is recommended with this info. The agent is trying to sell an apartment).

  3. Abandoned?
    By who or whom?
    Obviously nothing can be built there except some sort of access structure.
    You should have seen it when the access hole was open down to the tunnel hundreds of feet below …

  4. 6:25, the sentence starting with “Because” was the only part of 4:37’s post that I was confirming. DEP’s response to me was dismissive, along the lines of 6:20’s conversation although my discussion was a bit more formal. I am encouraged by 6:34’s report.

    Who wants to take the lead and call Craig Hammerman at Community Board 6? Election season is often a good time to get candidates to accomplish stuff that doesn’t go anywhere the other three-quarters of the time? If Craig can get this done as district manager, he can boast about it as City Council candidate.

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