houseStart-up group Friends of Brooklyn Bridge Park created this postcard to mock the developer-friendly proposal currently on the table transform the waterfront from the Manhattan Bridge to Atlantic Avenue. We’re filling the gap that organizations like the Heights association and the Conservancy — the organizations we thought we could depend on — are just not doing. They’re not advocating for the park we thought they would, founding member Ken Lowy said. We’ve gone through a lot of the plan, he added, and we’re finding more questions than answers.
Groups Clash Over ‘Park’ [Brooklyn Papers]


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  1. JoshK, I completely agree with your view on new architecture in NYC. Even a typical 19th century tenement is at least OK-looking to most people’s eyes. There’s no reason why so many of the new apartment buildings in Brooklyn have to be so ugly.

  2. as was mentioned a few months ago, building a park on these dilapitated piers is an engineering nightmare, and building housing under the BQE with no good subway access is almost as bad too….

  3. “The city’s current funding of parks is appalling low. The solutions – allowing private groups to take over maintenance (like Prospect Park and Central Park Alliances) or to allow private development to fund the maintenance – are inherently inequitable.”

    True enough, but precisely because of the the city’s low funding, and given that city funds are perhaps better spent elsewhere (someone else mentioned security and education), I see nothing wrong with encouraging private development of neglected areas such as the Brooklyn waterfront and requiring developers to build and maintain parkland as part of the deal. I think we all win.