DumboNYC Guest Post: Dock Street Building Plans
Over the next few weeks, we’re going to be inviting some neighborhoods bloggers from around the borough to write guest posts on Brownstoner. Today, DumboNYC kicks it off: Remember the previous post by Brownstoner on the proposed Dock Street building? Two Trees Management is formally presenting their proposal to the Dumbo Neighborhood Association (DNA) this…
Over the next few weeks, we’re going to be inviting some neighborhoods bloggers from around the borough to write guest posts on Brownstoner. Today, DumboNYC kicks it off:
Remember the previous post by Brownstoner on the proposed Dock Street building? Two Trees Management is formally presenting their proposal to the Dumbo Neighborhood Association (DNA) this week and have started an advertising campaign with mailers and a website, but some residents have responded with their own photo renderings and will begin lobbying against the structure citing its proximity to the Brooklyn Bridge and the skepticism of having a dual purpose school and residential tower in the same building. It’s reported that the campaign against the Dock Street building is underway, organized by residents of three Two Trees buildings; 30 Main Street, 70 Washington Street, and 1 Main Street, and 57 Front Street.
Ultimately this campaign should not be about ‘anti-developer’ or ‘not-in-my-backyard because it blocks my views’. The real issue is the need to preserve Brooklyn’s most iconic bridge view without a building next to it that stands taller than it does. Expect a full effort campaigning from both Two Trees and Dumbo residents this summer before, during, and after the formal submission of documents to the city. -Hideyoshi, DumboNYC.com
its in true poor judgment to think that every neighborhood should be as tall as the rock can hold ..
if let to developers we get Atlantic Yards
It first starts at dont you want a school (basketball team ) and ends with twenty 44 story bldgs…
dont be fooled…
Clearly the first few post are from Two Tree Cronies. Cut the Crap! If Two Trees wants to build a school then they should,BUT this is not about a school. It’s about appeasing a few Brooklyn Heights stroller mommies, while Walentas really $cakes$ off on some rental units.
A 300 seats school in area that will have so many new children? who gonna gets those 300 seats? Let them build a eight story state of the art super school for 5 times the amount of student. This would REALLY serve the community.
They won’t because it’s not about that.
I find these illustrations misleading — aren’t these the plans that were squashed? the new plans are much lower and in line with height of one main streetS
i’d like it — we need more housing in brooklyn, and we’ll need more schools.
I looked at 70 wash and asked about this, and when I asked, they said that things could be built there.
Besides, it should make the existing condos a bit quieter since the traffic noise from the bridge will be blocked.
Yeah – I don’t expect much of an outcry from the rest of Brooklyn, just DUMBO…
morons. the new building is nowhere near the important part of the bridge, the towers. And the view of the towers will only be blocked from a few lower income housing blocks further down into Brooklyn. The view from the Manhattan and Brooklyn waterfronts will remain unchanged.
Current residents of DUMBO didn’t protest when their buildings were built, moving to the area not expecting something to be built between their windows & the water was foolish. Protesting a beautiful project that meets multiple community needs is just selfish. The rendering above … seems fairly exaggerated. DUMBO is, has been and will always be a compact, congested, sweet little nabe & every inch of it will be redeveloped.
As a mother, I can say that having a school in a residential tower makes perfect sense to me! My kid goes to daycare in an office tower in Manhattan and it’s very convenient to people who work nearby or even in the building itself.
The best part of the bridge are the towers which are in the water and nothing taller will ever be built to hide them. So who cares what happens at the ramps. I mean in the Manhattan side it doesn’t matter really.