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Metro has an interview with ESDC chairman Charles Gargano, who says he wants to get "Brooklyn Bridge Park up to a level where work can begin in early ’07." Interestingly enough, a bunch of civic groups and the Sierra Club have joined together and sued to stop construction of Brooklyn Bridge Park over the inclusion of high-end real estate. Originally, the plan was to put 700 condos in to offset some of the park's operating expenses - but then the number of condos went to 900, and now the plan has 1200. The lawsuit claims that the Empire State Development Corporation has been "rewriting" the rules when it comes to planning the park.
Check out the plan for Brooklyn Bridge Park. And in his Metro interview, Gargano says that in 10 years, New York will look "better than ever. You will see a built World Trade Center, including the new memorial and the new transit hub. You will see a new Javits, the new Moynihan Station. You’ll see a thriving Queens West with tall residential towers. You’ll see Atlantic Yards completed. You’ll see a new Yankee Stadium. A new Mets stadium. New buildings for Bank of America and Goldman Sachs. Brooklyn Bridge Park completed. We will have our waterfronts cleaned up with parks." That's optimistic, but we hope the city will have more parks, too.
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they can do whatever they want to Brooklyn...just leave Manhattan alone, it's already perfect.
"...but we hope the city will have more parks, too."
The city does not need another park. What it NEEDS is more cowbell
they can do whatever they want to Brooklyn...just leave Manhattan alone, it's already perfect.
[1] Posted by: homeopt | May 17, 2006 02:42 PM
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Yeah. Thank goodness nothing ever changes in Manhattan.
Whenever I'm feeling low, it's good to know that Walken is there to put a smile on my face.
Andrew, don't you go there. Don't you dare go there. I live in the most expensive zip code in the city so you will respect me.
homeopt... You're really Svetlana from Curbed, aren't you?
I wish they would just change the plans to make it 100% condos and squeeze 50,000 new apartments in there. Screw parks! While they're at it, they should increase Ratner's plan to 100,000 condos and make poor people live in Propspect Park in tents.
In 10 years won't New York be under water?
Homeopt... you're in Honolulu? That explains a lot.
Anywho, this could be a nice park if anyone could get to or see it from behind the wall of condos that will be going up between the shore and the Promenade.
"In 10 years won't New York be under water?"
That is the hope and wishes of many. Gomorrah will once again fall.
Check it out... that drawing is not exactly, um, accuratte...
http://www.brooklynpapers.com/html/issues/_vol28/28_43/28_43nets2.html
'Course, neither is my spelling. Sorry. :>)
Tim, I know this is a foreign concept to you, but try readin the ENTIRE post before making your asinine comments. But I imagine that's asking a lot of a Brooklynite.
Homeopt, I know this is kind of a foreign concept to you, but IT WAS A JOKE. Lighten up, for Chrissakes.
I am outraged at this plan to put pools of nuclear waste in the East River!
Oh...those are supposed to be parks?
Tim, speaking as someone from the most expensive zip code in the city, your concesssion is duly noted.
Mister Chairman --
Let the fact that homeopt is funny also be duly noted.
nothing like a little Satan and Christopher Walken on the same board lol!!!!!
When I was alive I got things done and done my way almost all the time. Charles Gargano is out of his mind thinking all of that can be built in ten years. I could build ten times that in my prime. It is a shame that I am dead.
With love, from Hell,
Robert Moses