Big Role for Brooklyn in Land Reclamation Plan
If New York City keeps growing at its current pace, there will be over 9 million residents within the next two decades, up from 8.2 million last year. And they’re all going to need a place to live. Hence the Bloomberg administration’s announcement next month of a comprehensive plan to reclaim currently underused parcels of…
If New York City keeps growing at its current pace, there will be over 9 million residents within the next two decades, up from 8.2 million last year. And they’re all going to need a place to live. Hence the Bloomberg administration’s announcement next month of a comprehensive plan to reclaim currently underused parcels of land for residential development. It could be a zoning change, an investment in a form of transportation, it could be park space, working with Con Ed and KeySpan on energy needs, said Dan Doctoroff, deputy mayor for economic development. Power plants take acres and acres of land, but if we’re going to grow we’ve got to provide that. One place the city will definitely be looking? The 1,700 acres of contaminated land, also known as brownfields. New technology may make it economically viable to reclaim the land. Obviously, a large portion of this growth is going to come in Brooklyn. What are the biggest potential ramifications of this combination of land reclamation and building boom for the borough’s current residents and the real estate market?
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“Nimby” is an acronym for ‘Not in my back yard’. A term often used by over-zealous, reckless developers who live in sequestered surburban nabes far removed from the development site.
Quite a double standard because these same anti-nimbys would suffer a massive coronary if a big box retailer (e.g., Cosco, Whole Foods, Ikea, Target, Best Buy, etc) or a supersized development came within a block of their precious domicile.
help me out here whats a “Nimby”
this is a good idea. just look at a google map (satellite) of the area around newtown creek. underused industrial space = development-licious. and they say we are running out of land…
Anon 11:03 am
You are correct, residents of Brooklyn do want the City for themselves…not just dictated by what Mayor Mike and Mr. D feel our City and our Boro should be.
As an expression of free speech, got any suggestions Anon 11:03 am? Or are you just this string’s troll du jour?
More “unaffordable luxury bullshit” means that YOUR apartment has less demand on it. Go back to school, boy.
Nimbys are so idealistic that they can’t understand simple supply and demand.
Infrastructure!!!
if by “providing places to live for new residents” you mean “building unaffordable luxury bullshit” then so far we are doing a bang-up job.
Nimbys will find a way to kill this. They want the city all for themselves.
Even if it means more supply of housing, I’d think the aesthetic improvements alone would be good news for prices in the borough in general.