Ideas for the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal
The EDC held a community meeting last night to solicit ideas for alternate uses for the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal parking lot, and the blog A View from The Hook was there. The lot is used for bus parking less than 20 percent of the time and otherwise just sits empty. The two-acre site is therefore…
The EDC held a community meeting last night to solicit ideas for alternate uses for the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal parking lot, and the blog A View from The Hook was there. The lot is used for bus parking less than 20 percent of the time and otherwise just sits empty. The two-acre site is therefore available about 300 days a year, including 27 weekends. Here are some of the ideas that were thrown into the pot: green/flea market, playground, skateboard park/wintertime sledding hill, outdoor cinema/theater, urban campground, sand lot with equestrian, volleyball or other sporting activities, sculpture or art exhibition, bike parking for Greenway, concert or circus venue, fish Market, site for staging regatta or other waterborne activities, county fair site.
Brooklyn Cruise Terminal Parking Lot Possibilities [AVFTH]
easy, they should just give it to Bruce Ratner.
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JFK + LGA are open more than 27 days per year. And you can make the case that they contribute to the local economy. The cruise terminal is a money loser.
Boerum… JFK and LaGuardia have similar parkin. Just sayin’
I love New York City government. Earlier this week the blog was posting about how City Planning crack down on curb cuts so that homeowners can’t have a “reserved” parking spot. Unless you’re an out of town homeowner taking a cruise. Then it’s more than happy to reserve you a spot.
Like most issues in RH, the perfect is the enemy of the good. The locals should see this an opportunity for something temporary, but good like moveable art installations, flea markets and outdoor movies etc. The lot really is a tabla rasa, at least some of the time. However, this continued insistence that RH needs more permanent parkland is a red herring. RH has over 85-acres of open space (a combination of both public and private) and most of it underutilized.
It’s still a parking lot when the cruise ships use it… so it’s not going to be a Costco. I have to agree with Stargazer on this one. It’s a parking lot. How about building a “sledding hill” in a park?
Around the world there are always these huge fresh markets (veggies, butchers, bakers, seafood) that sell local foods and locally produced goods. We went to a great one in Barcelona, and I remember thinking at the time that it would be great in Brooklyn.
I guess I would support whatever ends up being there, I would be hesitant to, “leave it empty”. Without community input we will end up with another CostCo or Ikea. Reality is that space in NYC is a commodity and worth mucho $$.
Oh, so leave it empty, why does every single spec of land have to be “something”, ugh !
I think a market of some type (not a flea – more formal – maybe like the X-times ones they setup in Union Sq) with some significant space dedicated to local Brooklyn Business Districts (so like a Smith St section, Bay Ridge section, etc…) to allow various sections of Brooklyn to advertise and promote themselves to cruise ship passengers – districts could then pool to offer vans for locals and ship passengers to travel to and froe