Monday Events
Brooklyn Bridge Park Public Meeting The Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy, along with Empire State Development Corporation, New York State Parks, and New York City Parks, holds a meeting today on programming in Brooklyn Bridge Park. The plan will also address seasonal concerns as well as issues of infrastructure and funding. Monday, 6:30 p.m. to 9:00…
Brooklyn Bridge Park Public Meeting
The Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy, along with Empire State Development Corporation, New York State Parks, and New York City Parks, holds a meeting today on programming in Brooklyn Bridge Park. The plan will also address seasonal concerns as well as issues of infrastructure and funding. Monday, 6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Congregation Mt. Sinai 250 Cadman Plaza West.
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The structure on pier two is actually two huge residential/hotel buildings. At 8 stories they are not as high as the other four buildings inside the park. one will be 30 stories, the others 20 stories. one is already up to the equivalent of 20 – that is One Brooklyn Bridge Park. Welcome to the new vision of public parks.
Did anyone attend last night’s pathetic meeting sponsored by the BBP Conservancy? The vast majority of community members in attendance were clear in their desire to see a real park along the shore and not the luxury condo development it has become. It is apparent to all that the recreation and cultural venues originally planned for the park are gone because the people who will live inside the park do not want the intending noise and activity a real park generates. Elected officials who spoke, David Yasky and Bill DeBlasio, were hissed at, as was the evening’s hostess, Marianna Koval. Why? For their support of condos inside this public park. Yasky still believes that the height of the condo buildings (it looks like we are up to 7 new buildings folks) is the problem. Can’t he figure out that the mere presence of condos inside of a public park is the problem? And this is a guy who wants to be comptroller? Let him ferret out which city deals are legit or not? Yikes. Get rid of the condos, restore the recreation long needed, and get back to seeing this as an asset for all Brooklynites and not just an asset for real estate moguls (and the politicians that do their bidding). Shame on anyone, including this new park president, Regina Myer, who believe that we must sell our public park lands to the highest real estate bidder. The deal was NOT to make BBPark a totally self-sustaining park. That is a fiction made dangerous by the Brooklyn Heights Association that promulgated it. Call Yasky, DeBlasio, Joan Milman and Regina Myer. Tell them you want a real park not landscaping and highrises for the wealthy.
Does anyone know what type of structure they are building on the parking lot of Pier 2?
I agree that these meetings are more to show that the BBP Conservancy has something to do rather than any real purpose.
Nonetheless the fact that Regina has been appointed is at least some positive movement on Albany’s part.
The park will eventually be nice, although a little difficult to reach as the narrow sidewalk of Joralemon Street is the main, and almost only approach. If they are planning activities in the park they should figure out how the kids and their equipment are going to get there and back. All the talk so far has been airy-fairy and largely lacking in down-to-earth practicalities.
I won’t believe anything until those warehouses start getting knocked down…
The park is happening. Yay!
I just got down to the Monday Links and see. lo and behold, the state did finally appoint a new president. Regina Myer? Are they kidding us? Did it take this long because they were looking for somebody as bad as Wendy Leventer? Didn’t Regina do enough harm as borough director of the Department of City Planning?
Freakin’ smoke screen. More blather about programming instead of construction to make it look like something is actually happening. I’m not one of those “nattering nabobs of negativity” that say the park will never happen, but we are going through a very bad time indeed. Construction was supposed to have started this Fall. The state cannot even appoint a president of the development corporation.