May 16, 2006 — A community group filed a lawsuit yesterday in State Supreme Court to block plans for a new park along the waterfront. The group, the Brooklyn Bridge Park Defense Fund, opposes a plan approved by state officials earlier this year to rehabilitate the 1.3-mile-long stretch because the plan calls for luxury housing in the park to help subsidize its cost. The lawsuit seeks to reinstate an earlier park plan that does not include the housing, as well as require state officials to analyze the impacts, like traffic congestion and parking shortages, that other development in the area might have on the park.
Group Sues to Block New Park [NY Times]
also: Brooklyn Bridge Park Building Boo’d [NY Daily News]


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  1. “But in December 2004 – after a public hearing had already been held and Gov. Pataki and Mayor Bloomberg had signed off on the proposal – state planners quietly added six high-rise condos with more than 1,200 private apartments, and a luxury marina.”- NY Daily News

    Isn’t that just typical? These ar public park lands. How does a luxury marina and condos equate with public?

  2. Anon 5-17-6: that depends on who you talk to. Carolyn makes a point tho- kayak facilities? Fancy (read expensive) sports? I don’t want the Chelsea Piers (a day there is damn expensive)- I want a beautiful park that all New Yorkers can enjoy without all the “upscale” crap. What’s wrong with a beautiful park, with grass, and trees and places for kids to play? No expensive sports facilities or marinas-THey want luxury housing? – put the kayaks in their basement and the marina in the laundry room. Who is the park supposed to be for anyway? Because I don’t know too many people who need or can afford to use a marina.

  3. Hmm. Placing luxury development in or alongside a park is bad, but, re: previous topics on this site, evicting artists from existing housing so it can be replaced with luxury housing is perfectly acceptable.

  4. Yeah Carolyn – if you dont live in an area then you automatically act like a hooligan – BTW no one lives in the area it is currently piers essentially blocked by the BQE and fenced off.

  5. Are there at least going to be a couple ballfields and playgrounds for the neighborhood kids? If it’s all kayak runs and fancy facilities that will draw mostly outsiders, I’d say screw it too if I lived in the area. Better rotting piers than traffic and garbage from folks with no stake in the neighborhood to impel them to behave.

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