Tower To Go Up Next Door to BAM?
According to Brooklyn Papers, The Clarett Group, which has developed four luxury residential towers in Manhattan, has gobbled up three lots next door to the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Located at the corner of Fulton and Ashland Place, the properties fall under C6-4 zoning, which would enable the developer to build a 20-story hotel or…
According to Brooklyn Papers, The Clarett Group, which has developed four luxury residential towers in Manhattan, has gobbled up three lots next door to the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Located at the corner of Fulton and Ashland Place, the properties fall under C6-4 zoning, which would enable the developer to build a 20-story hotel or office tower as of right and possibly as many as 30 stories of residential. No permits have been filed, but neighbors believe the existing buildings will be demolished.
Hotel Harvey [Brooklyn Papers] GMAP
mebbe they should take the dense, pretentious trust fund rats and put them in the housing projects and let the project peeps sit on their new stoops and talk about what THEY don’t understand.
I gotta agree. If you give something to somebody for free, why would they ever work? Why would they ever become a productive member of society?
There’s nothing unjust about poor people living in poor neighborhoods. If they work hard and make more money, if they so choose, they can move to better neighborhoods.
Capitalism works. Down with socialism!
I posted that public policy disaster comment, and the reason wasn’t bc projects offend the delicate sensibilities of rich folks, it was b/c projects create a culture of poverty and crime that is devastating for poor people. Projects are the worst thing that ever happened to poor people in this city, and also destroy any possibility for economic growth in the areas they are built. That is why they are a DISASTER!! I am not saying poor people don’t deserve a place to live, I’m saying housing projects suck for them! They should be built neither in prime real esate areas nor in ghettos. They should be abolished.
Also, someone mentioned our “capitalist” real estate market? I’m sorry, what city do you live in? New York has by far the most socialist real estate market in the nation, and one of the most socialist in the entire western world. Please.
I feel for them, but as I said, why do they get preferential treatment compared to other renters in a neighborhood who get priced out? Because it is a project building? I know not all are drug users and criminals, of course not, but projects are where a huge percentage of that sort of activity originates, no denying it.
I’m the 6.03 poster. I don’t disagree, the jail should be demolished first, but I would welcome the projects being relocated too.
I think any public housing should be located in less desirable neighborhoods and thought should be put into what neighborhoods are likely to have potential to gentrify in coming decades when building plans for public housing are drawn up. Why should neighborhoods continue to be bad places to live because of numerous projects being built in them in years past. It is poor planning. Projects are a safety net and those living there should view them as such. If we are uprooting “generations” as you say, then that is indicative of the problem too. But you can’t complain if the free/subsidized housing is moved to a different location.
People who rent normal apartments have to move nabes when rents are too high, why should people in projects get special treatment?
Anon at 6:03 –
I beg to differ. I kinda think the Brooklyn House of Detention on PRIME Atlantic and Smith (filled with *real* criminals, not stereotyped project residents) be demolished and moved far, far away… WAY before a project should!
Anon at 6:00 –
This sounds like you think *every single person* in the projects is a criminal and/or drug addict? Is it more prevalent there than “nice neighborhoods?” – sure it is, nobody can deny that. But what about the single parents who live there trying to make an honest living and keep their families together? You can’t lump people under one stereotype.
The projects already are ghettos, always have been. Why should they be in prime areas? Give me a break, it is nearly free housing and you want to complain if your not in a prime area. If there is ever an argument for improving a blighted area, a project is the best thing to be demolished and rebuilt somewhere else. Sorry but beggars can’t be choosers. I know it is insensitive but what do the already “ghetto” projects contribute to the surrounding community?