Brooklyn Bridge Park Pier 6 Update
There’s been lots of activity at Pier 6 in Brooklyn Bridge Park recently. The trenches for the storm water tank have been dug, hence the large mounds of dirt. There’s also been additional excavation going on to make way for utilities and other drainage structures. Meanwhile, down at Pier 1, the storm water tanks are…
There’s been lots of activity at Pier 6 in Brooklyn Bridge Park recently. The trenches for the storm water tank have been dug, hence the large mounds of dirt. There’s also been additional excavation going on to make way for utilities and other drainage structures. Meanwhile, down at Pier 1, the storm water tanks are already in place.
OK, I’m going to take up g man’s challenge and see how many things in sam’s post are factually incorrect:
1) This photo is of the uplands of pier 6 which is actual ground and most definitely NOT a pier.
2)The dirt shown in the photo was in fact dug up in order to place subsurface drainage and was not trucked in to the site. (In fairness to sam, there have been truckloads of dirt brought on to the site, but they are being placed on pier 1, not here).
3) One of the condo buildings that are supposed to generate revenue, is already up and running and has residents and has been paying rent and PILOTS for about a year now – that’s the One Brooklyn Bridge Condo.
Besides all those errors, I do agree with sam’s basic premise that it would be better for the park if the city took it over.
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q man: what are you talking about you demented twit.
Are you drunk?
sam, I think you were looking for the thread about being a bottom
g man
yeah yeah blah blah,
since i am one of the few posters who actually knows what he is talking about, I am often accused of mis-statements by those who see reality through the prism of their own self-interest or ideology.
screw you with your “busy day” What an incredibly stupid post.
Busy day here, so pardon me for not addressing sam’s comments point by point. It will have to suffice to say that there are at least three incorrect statments in his/her post above.
The Park generally uses its owned barge to bring soil in and remove construction waste by water…much cheaper than trucking and much better for the neighborhood…
but I agree anything is better than the ESDC’s running of this but under the most recent leadership at least it finally got moving.
That dirt is sitting on top of a pier. Every bit of it had to be trucked in at great expense. It will be contoured and made to look like a fake landscape, as if it really wasn’t a pier.
Unless the City takes over the ownership of the park, this will be it for a while. The new condos, which are supposed to generate the maintenance income for the park, are on hold. Therefore no operating income, therefore no park. The State’s involvement since Paterson took over as governor has been very negative and counter-productive. They have thrown up every roadblock possible and have even prevented the privately-run BBP conservancy from renewing their succesful summertime programs. It is a mess. It needs to be taken over by City Hall as the mayor wants, in a deal that would include the city’s takeover of Governor’s Island. Takeover by the City is the best and only hope at the moment.
OK, so rerout the storm sewers. Filling in the Gowanus, making it a long rambling garden/park is a great idea. It’s such a no-brainer, that I’m sure even idiots like DIBS and the What could agree on it.
The city would need to reroute the storm overflow sewers first.