Latest BBP Brouhaha: A Supermarket in the Park
The most recent controversy over Brooklyn Bridge Park has to do with plans to put a grocery store in the base of the public-private development’s anchoring condo, One Brooklyn Bridge Park, according to an article in this week’s Brooklyn Paper. Judy Stanton, the executive director of the Brooklyn Heights Association, says it’s “not the most…
The most recent controversy over Brooklyn Bridge Park has to do with plans to put a grocery store in the base of the public-private development’s anchoring condo, One Brooklyn Bridge Park, according to an article in this week’s Brooklyn Paper. Judy Stanton, the executive director of the Brooklyn Heights Association, says it’s “not the most complimentary business for the park,” while Ken Baer, chair of the Atlantic Chapter of the Sierra Club, argues that “all the land within the park should be devoted to recreational space.” One Brooklyn Bridge Park’s developer says he wants to put a (what else?) high-end market into the building as well as two restaurants and smaller shops. The taxes collected from the condo’s retail would help cover the park’s maintenance costs. Do you like the idea of a high-end market here?
Supermarket Could Come to ‘Park’ [Brooklyn Paper] GMAP
Amidst Lingering Controversy, BBP Construction to Begin [Brownstoner]
Brooklyn Bridge Park Meeting: The Morning After [Brownstoner]
Park good, 40+ year old nimby has-beens bad. There is one group of people from BH I would not mind to see be gone, the irrational nimby zealots. Please bring the crime this way. Maybe a stray bullet will land on them. No tears from. God knows, these asstards have severly impacted the lives of many, many, many people trying to make a living here.
Yeah, I never did understand these people that have this sense of entitlement to live where ever they want to without having to pay for it. They don’t pay taxes or hardly any. They then bitch about a ten dollar increase in rent and will not pay. Their apartments are packed with every imaginable crap for the last 30 years, fire hazard, they’re rude, angry, bitter, & stupid to boot.
I hope the BHA & Judy & all the nimby asstards to get by a car.
park concessions for public refreshment are found in every park in the city including the Central Park. at least, a jamba juice, a starbucks or, well, a donut place is fine by me.
11:11 is a rent controlled loser. Can’t pay their on way. I hope you die already along with your antiquated beliefs. Fuck-off loser.
11:11AM is an old has-been nimby. Get some real life friends instead of posting your bullshit fud.
10:11,You think it is a park with condos inside it? I’ve got a bridge you can buy, too. Get real.
park good. condos bad. let us take back park. period.
9:04, I agree with your basic premise. Since 360 Furman (OOPS) will not be demolished by eminent domain anytime soon, I simply want to mitigate its effect on the surrounding neighborhoods. The same goes for whatever goes in on the first floor. The other residential bldgs in the plan won’t be necessary if the bloated budget were properly revised–how many Priuses are we at these days? Are they still counting the water as part of the 80+ acreage figure to decrease the cost per acre? (My secret theory is that the need the $ to buy 1,000 cans of Aquanet hairspray per month to properly style the East River tides. Wait –maybe thr,illions for wave attenuators will take care of that.) If only the land acres are used in calculations, it’s only a 60-odd acre park. Therfore less $$ needed to maintain the park. If the marina area were instead something to make money for the park, and other appropriate amenities were used to generate funds rather than serve the needs of only the residents, enough $$ could be generated to support a park and not another Battery Park City. As a last thought, perhaps the Conservancy should stop paying $ 100,000+++ for consultants whose main area of expertise is museums and galleries and not parks for all the people of Brooklyn and New York.
It’s still a park.