Tuesday Links
All 60 Brooklyn Library Branches Now Open After Lengthy Repairs [NY Daily News] D.A. Investigating reBar Owner Who Ran off With Couples’ Cash [NY Post] Eva Longoria Dines at Antica Pesa Before Frieze Art Fair [NY Post] “Modernity Transfusion” for Tubby House in Clinton Hill [WSJ] Brooklyn Health Partners Still in the Game? $25 Million…

All 60 Brooklyn Library Branches Now Open After Lengthy Repairs [NY Daily News]
D.A. Investigating reBar Owner Who Ran off With Couples’ Cash [NY Post]
Eva Longoria Dines at Antica Pesa Before Frieze Art Fair [NY Post]
“Modernity Transfusion” for Tubby House in Clinton Hill [WSJ]
Brooklyn Health Partners Still in the Game? $25 Million Check Returned Late Friday [Brooklyn Eagle]
Firefighters Scramble After Truck Decapitates Gas Lamp in Brooklyn Heights [Brooklyn Eagle]
New Apartment Tower at 172 Montague Street Springs up Above Construction Fence [Brooklyn Eagle]
After Hastening Gentrification, a Brooklyn Super Has Regrets [Gothamist]
Construction Update: 286 Ashland Place [NY YIMBY]
“It’s Out of This World”: 18 Reactions to Kara Walker’s Domino Installation [Bedford + Bowery]
A School for Brooklyn’s Youngest Hipsters [New Yorker]
I Spent a Night at Williamsburg’s Hip, New Western-Themed Bed and Breakfast [NY Mag]
The Sixth Floor Modules Are Done [AYR]
Atlantic Yards Surfs Tide of Gentrification [AYR]
Celebrate Memorial Day With Beats and Eats in Bed Stuy [DNAinfo]
Brooklyn Designs Showcase in Dumbo Highlights Contemporary Home Furnishings [NY1]
Dear everyone,
The NY Times article fails to discuss many important issues to the community. This is a park in the public domain, and our community has a lot of perspectives on what a park means to us, and rightfully so!
As a journalist, this reporter did not capture the full conversation occurring in our community about this project. Please consider reading the comments on bit.ly/SavePier6 and perhaps signing our petition in you agree, or sharing your thoughts / help.
We do not need leader fatigue on this issue. The parks development, and the compromises agreed to previously, aren’t even what’s guiding the decisions here on Pier 6. These decisions are NEW and the community has a right to be heard!!! Our leaders have the obligation to constantly fight for what’s best for us, project by project.
Also, real estate developers are making a lot of money off these projects, maybe our leaders need to negotiate a better deal for the people, instead of giving away money to the developers. Toll Brothers is making a killing on Pierhouse.
On Facebook we are “Save Pier 6” — thank you for reading
that being said, BdB jumping on this development to add an affordable element will reduce the revenue to the park. Affordable housing doesn’t need to be co-located with luxury.. it’s not very efficient. Let people pay up for the views, gather their taxes, and use them where it makes sense.
isn’t that what the people who helped create the park already did? why are you more of an expert at forecasting than them?
if we could figure out how much money… the park actually needed… ??? from dev. on pier 6?
maybe we could raise the money, and create a fund… and have no more buildings on pier 6! and have more trees!!
Dear friends,
I prefer you read the petition … but the decisions on the project have changed literally overnight and I’m not a lawyer, but there was a general project contract way back when, and I’m pretty sure its violated by these latest hasty changes?
ONn the profit/project economics, I understand property values have gone up, generating a profit for Toll Brothers. Why couldn’t the city have had a clause in the contract (when the land in the public domain was sold by the city) that would have allowed the city a portion of the developers profits beyond a certain threshold? I believe its called “retaining some of the economics” ?
Just a thought. Sorry to post a second time. I don’t meant to spam.
i understand that this project was designed to “break even” financially and was expensive.
But theres’ a moving definition of “self funded”… there’s always some magic in forecasting stuff like this.. everybody’s got an agenda…
…and its not just the views , although, I will be sad, when dragging my “sorry tail” back down Atlantic Ave after running Prospect Park to see a skyscraper instead of the water and sun
.. it’s also that the park is small, 85 acres? I hear that measurement includes the water in between the piers? Prospect Park is 585?
Every last inch of green space is precious and per one article yesterday, the park’s already pretty really full of happy visitors! shouldn’t we keep the people living in the park to a minimum?
Let’s preserve the “park-ness” to the greatest extent possible.. so the greatest number of people can benefit from the park. ..
Now I am spamming! I am so so sorry!