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]
Joralemon Street is a public street. It is not the private property of people who live on Joralemon Street. Because it is a public street, private citizens have no right to expect that only certain trafffic or certain people are allowed to use it. If you want to live on a private street, move in the city as well as many private, gated communities in the suburbs. Joralemon Street is not one of them and the idea that somehow people who buy and visit One BBP will be interlopers using the street that somehow is not meant for them is just plain demented. Demented verging on brain dead. What part of “public street” do the folks in the area find so difficult to understand?
That is, 1 real entrance for people and cars between Atlantic and Old Fulton — Joralemon Street. The pedestrian bridge at Middagh Street will be built when? 2020?
A big store on the bottom floor of 1BBP will turn Joralemon St into a highway, unless the street is closed to all but emergency traffic as it meets Furman. (This has been promised for 20 years, but even the retractable bollards solution seems to be evaporating now.) The park DOES/WILL need amenities, but any trucks, driving customers, etc, should come in via the Atlantic Avenue entrance. So should the cars of 1 BBP residents.
Shoppers/residents on foot can walk up and down Joralemon, or take the B63/B61 bus on Atlantic, two blocks south.
If there were more than 2 real entrances to the park between Atlantic Ave and Old Fulton Street, this would less of an issue. I live not on Joralemon but nearby, and am not looking forward to a having a freeway around the block. More people walking in the area, fine — it’s quiet there.
Contrary to some earlier blogs, lower Joralemon isn’t an empty wasteland, it’s a great neighborhood full of people, many of them young. None are excessively gaseous, as far as I can tell. People know their neighbors, and plant beautiful gardens for all to see as they walk by. The visitor to 1 BBP who raved about the model might also want to know that 2 additional new apartment buildings are planned directly south of 1 BBP; was that shown on the lovely model, or did the architects just paint in the usual mysterious gray squares?
“…coz when i get down 181 lbs…”
You’re a fat-ass? And lazy to boot. You’re in dire need of walking up and down that little hill lard ass. Pray for your reward with a tub of ice-cream at the end of your journey. Loser.
do you ever watch how good looking they look after they leave ‘the biggest loser’ tv show? you wish, asstard.
Looks like Judy’s panties are bunched up! I thought I told you to screw the nearest lamp post! Who told you to leave! Get back you wanna be tramp before I Tony Danza your ass!
4:47 the last laugh will be on you coz when i get down 181 lbs, I’ll push you down the promenade into the river with my butt. And my name isn’t Judy.
@3:34 PM
You are an idiot! We’re all laughing at you! Thanks for the chuckle, you really are a douchebag! 100 people haha! Fat asses because people need a grocery store haha! Let us guess, is that you Judy? As Ed Norton once said, “The first one through this door gets a…gets a lead salad!”
Me and 3 of my relatives went to look at the condos at BBP and although we had problems with the construction or lack of quality and issues with the window placements we were completely turned off by the idea of having a supermarket in the building. After living in a building in Manhattan for many years with a supermarket on the ground floor I will never subject myself to the horrors of living with a situation like that. The smells, the garbage, the mice!! Even the broker mentioning that this was a possibility they lost out on about $5,000,000 worth of sales. They should educate their sales people a little better as well as an agent with developers group was very lackluster in their information of the sales process. The onsite person was much better.