Things That Go Bump in the Footprint
AY Report looks into whether the Environmental Impact Statement for Atlantic Yards ignored how the din and fumes associated with the work on the mega-project would affect the lives of residents living in its footprint. People who live on the northside of Dean Street between Flatbush and 6th avenues, whose homes are eventually supposed to…
AY Report looks into whether the Environmental Impact Statement for Atlantic Yards ignored how the din and fumes associated with the work on the mega-project would affect the lives of residents living in its footprint. People who live on the northside of Dean Street between Flatbush and 6th avenues, whose homes are eventually supposed to be demolished for Atlantic Yards, say they’ve been uneasily living with the noise and dust kicked up by work on the water and sewer connections being upgraded on the block for AY. (Footprint Gazette has been chronicling the disturbances.) AY Report’s Norman Oder opines that the EIS probably ignored the effects of work on residents in the footprint, of which there are fewer than two dozen, because “planners assumed that, by the time construction activities began, no one would be there. But I don’t know for sure, because, when I asked the ESDC why the impact on footprint residents was left out and whether that was standard operating procedure, the questions were ignored.” The person who writes Footprint Gazette, meanwhile, says that reaching out to the city has been fruitless. The 311 calls haven’t really resulted in anything, he said. If we call with a noise complaint, or my apartment was flooded with diesel fumes, they come at a totally different time. I was trying to get them to come by, immediately.
AY EIS Ignored Noise Faced by Footprint Residents [AY Report]
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Oh The What, I wish you were right, and maybe what you say will ultimately come to pass. But right now my chair is vibrating from the backhoe that’s outside my window, meaning that there is at least some funding in there somewhere.
I have some bad news for you Asshats…
Governor Calls on Legislature to Deal With Fiscal Crisis
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/30/nyregion/30paterson.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
ALBANY — Gov. David A. Paterson, in a brief and rare live televised address, said Tuesday evening that New York is facing a fiscal crisis in the wake of Wall Street’s meltdown, and he called on the Legislature to return next month to grapple with a budget deficit that will grow to $26.2 billion over the next three years.
Ok here we go! Is New York State STILL giving Ratner money to build Atlantic Yards???!!!!!
Huh, No! Hells NO.. Ratner told me to go Atlantic Yards but I said NO NO NO!! LMMFAO!
Brownstone Brooklyn is finished………….
The What (Let’s go Newark Nets!)
Someday this war is gonna end…
Thanks for the empathy bxgrl. I recently had 2 different out of towners stay with me last week and they were shocked at what we deal with and appalled that this is being allowed to happen.
If you read through Norm Oder’s post you can see just how foul this whole thing is. There weren’t supposed to be people in these buildings at this stage in the construction, so the necessary measures to make this bearable are not in place.
Needless to say, FCR and Marty Markowitz don’t give a damn, and are happy to harass us until we leave. After all they want those arena dollars and could give a rat’s ass about the people who live here. Our hope is that the people who live here (you good Brooklynites) will care about the people who live here (us good Brooklynites) and help us make some noise about this.
Brownstoner and Norm Oder have now done their share in exposing this nonsense and a handful of other people as well. But by in large we are forgotten about behind this green wall. And until we get due respect and compensation we ain’t going nowhere. And until we leave ain’t nobody gettin’ their arena and the construction will continue at this snail’s pace making sure this area is blighted for years to come.
Marty Markowitz: marty@brooklynbp.nyc.gov – tell him to put the reins on these out of control developers.
Andy Zlotnick FCR Senior VP: AZlotnick@fcrc.com – tell him to have some respect for the people he’s displacing.
Requirement that cops and firemen live in the city was lifted in the early/mid 60s, but a lot of them had bailed to NJ and Rockland County, S.I., L.I., before that, and just kept it on the dl.
I think they park that way so that they won’t have to commandeer as many spots — if they all parked bumper to fender, think of how many spaces they’d have to take up. So that’s one way of looking at it.
I don’t have a big beef with cops. I’ve seen many more rookies sweating their you-knows off, walking around Clinton Hill, since the publicity about the marauding at-risk youth, and I say, right on.
Pile-driving is deeply quality-of-life disturbing. Got a friend in that area whose wife is preggo and she’s having a hell of a time sleeping. Condolences.
Footprint- just went to your blog and read your posts. I can so empathize. My building was next to the new Brooklyn Law dorm and Urban foundation was a complete nightmare. The pile driving and the collapse of a building behind us was the worst-I thought for sure my building would come crashing down it shook so badly. Lots of nice cracks developed too. when I got the chance to move, I took it.
I also am frequently peeved by the fire department and police suvs taking up all the spots both legal and illegal. Between them and the construction workers, the limited amount of parking that exists around my home goes quickly.
Recently I was parked in between a line of police’s personal cars about 40 feet from a temporary bus stop on Dean and my car got towed, actually cherry picked from between the other cars. Like my car sitting 4 cars back from the temporary bus stop was going to create a problem. Ain’t that bitch?
ennuiator- I’m not sure either but I have a friend I can ask about the parking thing and see if there is some sort of reason they are allowed to do that.
Bxgrl-
Of course not all firefighters and police officers at those stations are SUV drivers from Staten Island, my generalization was perhaps to broad. While I understand they have an important job to do, I don’t understand how that applies to where they park their cars.
The firehouse is very, very protective about the ‘no parking in the fire lane’ area in front of the building to make sure the trucks have enough room to pull out and I can completely understand this.
It just seems rather fantastically un-neighborly, however, to have double and triple parked cars as well as cars or SUV’s parked directly ON THE SIDEWARK on Dean in front of the playground next to the station when there is plenty of street parking just 1/2 block away in either direction between Flatbush/Dean and Carlton/Vanderbilt. If I can find it, so could they. It makes them seem lazy and seem to not give a crap about the pedestrians that have to walk in traffic to go around all the cars blocking the sidewalks- something downright dangerous as Dean is a busy street with a bus route.
As the construction slowly makes it way up the street replacing the water mains, I can only hope they will be more neighborly about not blocking sidewalks with their cars since the construction is doing a great job of it also, but I’m not much of an optimist.
Thanks for clarifying that. Didn’t it used to be a requirement? When did that change?