Council Vote Approaching, Dock Street Debate Crescendos
With the final public hearing on Two Trees’ controversial Dock Street Dumbo development scheduled for tomorrow at City Hall and a final City Council vote likely to take place in June, the opposition is pulling out some eleventh hour celebrity spokespeople, including most recently Ken Burns and Ugly Betty stat Ana Ortiz, in its bid…
With the final public hearing on Two Trees’ controversial Dock Street Dumbo development scheduled for tomorrow at City Hall and a final City Council vote likely to take place in June, the opposition is pulling out some eleventh hour celebrity spokespeople, including most recently Ken Burns and Ugly Betty stat Ana Ortiz, in its bid to derail the approval of the mixed-use (400 apartments, 1 school) development; the publicity blitz comes on the heels of a protest on the steps of City Hall three weeks ago. Meanwhile, the developer sent an open letter last night to the eight celebs who’ve lent their name to the opposition urging them to hear both sides of the story and charging that opponents were spreading disinformation and putting their personal wants (like preserving the views from their lofts) over the needs of the community for a public middle school and affordable housing. (The Brooklyn Eagle defends the process through which the city came to support the school in an article today.) Tomorrow’s public hearing takes place tomorrow morning at 10 a.m. in the City Council Chamber at 260 Broadway in Manhattan.
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Sam, it is the Parc du Champs de Mars. plural Champs.
A very lovely huge park in the heart of Paris.
The Brooklyn Bridge has no Champs de Mars but it has the expansive East River to set it off. The argument about a little building on Dock Street taking away from the bridge is pure hooey. Any smart six year old could tell you that.
In terms of the newspaper not displaying a model in its window. why the heck not? what better way to display the project to the public so as to let them make up their own minds? But the model showed the truth and that ticks off the nimby-ites who do not wish to let the facts get in the way.
I apologize if 2 Trees doesn’t won the building — I had heard they did from a (previously) reliable source. But the other point still obtains — a newspaper shouldn’t have a building model in its window! And I don’t live in DUMBO, and have no views to lose. The same is true of many opponents of this project.
“There is nothing in the landmarks law that prohibits or limits in any way new construction adjacent to landmarks. This is simply a made-up argument that has no foundation in local preservation law or traditional practice”….or common sense
this is much ado about peoples views from their brand new apartments
The Eiffel Tower is more like the Washington Monument in that it is set within a large federally owned and maintained garden called the Parc du Champ de Mars. In Washington it is called the National Mall. There is no national mall or champ de mars surrounding the bridge. There is a newish waterfront park beneath the Bridge and that will not be effected at all by the new building.
The idea that one cannot or should not build a new building near a famous NYC landmark is a novel approach to preservation in NYC. There is nothing in the landmarks law that prohibits or limits in any way new construction adjacent to landmarks. This is simply a made-up argument that has no foundation in local preservation law or traditional practice.
The Eiffel tower is in a park. The Brooklyn bridge is not.
bklyn20 – the owner of 30 Henry is
CELE REALTY CORP
cecile l. is her name….
475 HENRY ST
BROOKLYN NY 11201
http://nycprop.nyc.gov/nycproperty/statements/asr/jsp/stmtassessasr.jsp?statementId=133142680
check it please
2 Trees was the landlord of The Brooklyn Paper AND is The Brooklyn Eagle/Brooklyn Heights Press’ landlord (yes, at 30 Henry Street.) If you don’t know, 30 Henry Street is conveniently located close to PS8 — very suitable location for a marketing campaign. In addition, newspapers that pretend to be impartial outside their editorial pages should not be displaying models of proposed development projects — whoever their landlord might be.
My second point is that the Brooklyn Bridge is a national and international landmark. Thus, it should not have any additional buildings impinging on its airspace. That’s why I liken it to the Eiffel Tower — nothing is built cose to the Eiffel Tower, even a much-needed middle school, nursery school, hospital… whatever.
bklyn20, you do realize that your last posting was completely incoherent.
bklyn20, two trees is former landlord of Brooklyn Papers, which is now in MetroTech.
Eagle is in a small buildng at 30 Henry Street.