Suit Tries to Block Brooklyn Bridge Park
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…
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]
sorry, but it’s good trying to be the enemy of the bad. they built the Dumbo section in one year flat. what’s so hard about that?
Bklynjace: Arguing with platitudes tells it all.
So we need condos to pay for a marina? Now there’s the tail wagging the dog.
I for one am willing to wait for a plan that makes sense.
Ah yes, once again the perfect being the enemy of the good. Let’s wait another generation mooning over how authentic rotting piers are while waiting for the magical day when taxes are raised to 90%, dirty private money is banned and we each get our own government teat to suckle.
So NYC. So tedious.
Build the fricking park.
David: Are you going to ask the people by Riverside Park, the High Line, and Central Park to pay a special park tax? Once again Brooklyn is getting shafted while our pols sit on their thumbs.
Anonymous I dont know how long you plan on living but 25 years is more than a “little wait” to me. Further this isnt an issue of whether Brklyn Heights is a desireable neighborhood anyway; the park is suppossed to be for everyone.
Finally while it would be nice if there was no development needed, many of our parks – Central, Prospect, Bryant depend on private $ both in terms of donations, fees and sponsorships to be maintained.
The development being proposed is limited to the park ‘ends’ and should prevent the never ending grubbing that major parks in NY are constantly forced to do; while it would be nice to just have the State/City pay for the maintainace it just isnt realistic (or that fair to the existing parks -often in less affluent areas- that are already short on $)
Jim- From NYS Conmptroller website sounds quasi public to me –
Public authorities are corporate instruments of the State created by the legislature to further public interests. Public authorities are legally and administratively autonomous from the State. Each public authority is governed by a separate board of directors, with the majority of directors appointed by the Governor and/or Legislature.
Though created by the State, public authorities are subject to neither the State Constitutional limits on the incurrence of debt nor legislative budget approval process.
Jim- thanks for the clarification re PA. The biggest problem with the PA is that it is not subject to any scrutiny- it is pretty much able to do what it wants.
Agree with you re Yassky, but using developers to make up shortfalls is a really bad idea. Besides, the real problem is pork barrel legislation, waste, poorly thought out tax cuts, and billions being spent in fighting the war on terror the wrong way.Healthcare isn’t going to bankrupt us- our politicians are.
I, for one, would have been fine with that David. What I don’t like is 500,000 sq ft of commercial and retail space, parking for 1200 cars, condos with more than 1000 units and a hotel in a 1.3 mile stretch. Oh, and my favorite, a marina!
All to pay for the park’s upkeep, most of which is water? I don’t understand why they can’t continue the DUMBO/Empire State Park all along the way. Grass is the answer. How hard would that be? Do we really need waterfront basketball courts, a kayak course and a cricket pitch?