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With McCarren Park Pool soon becoming a place where one will hear children splashing in the water instead of hipsters sighing whilst listening to their new favorite band, the search is on for a new outdoor concert space. Of course, the venue simply wouldn't do unless it was in the mecca of indie rock, Williamsburg/Greenpoint.
Renderings of the watefront park via New York City Department of Parks & Recreation
NYMag reports that "a leader of the community board in North Brooklyn says the city can set up a parking lot along the waterfront between North 9th and North 10th streets for live music as early as the summer of 2009." Evan Thies, head of the board's environmental committee (and running for city council), says the space can be acquired and cleared within 18 months, and can become a sprawling 28-acre waterfront park. One immediate hurdle for this proposal is another proposal for a large underground Transgas power plant built at the Bushwick Inlet. There's a meeting regarding the latter on March 20th, and in the meantime you can vote for the park here.
Last November community leaders announced a state legislation to force TransGas Energy from their neighborhood. "The legislation would cut through red tape TransGas has masterfully wrapped around its unpopular bid for a 1,000 megawatt power plant, and force the property to be given to the City so that the Bushwick Inlet Park can be built."
Wonder if the residents of the new luxury condos sprouting up in that area would prefer loud concerts or a power plant?
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Who's paying for this park?
who's playing for the power plant?
Wait. McCarren Park is going to be a...pool? But where are all the super-cool people going to go see their super-cool bands? They undoubtedly have to find someplace ironic. Although now that McCarren is actually going to be a pool, it's SO un-ironic that it's ironic. PERFECT. I can't wait to see Nietze's Butter Dish or Spring Poland or Binder Clip Bonanza there!
echoing the other comments, remind me why mccarren stopped being a pool, why the upkeep stopped? all of a sudden the city thinks it's worthwhile again. what happens 5 years after it's reopening as a pool when the city decides to ignore it... again?
Oh fun! A pool! Let's pour tons of cash into a seasonal pool when right under it is well, toxic waste?
I am talking about the Roebling Oil Field that is right next to the park (and pool) and the millions of gallons of "leaked" oil that is under Williamsburg (and Greenpoint, but let's pick on Williamsburg for a change.)
Fact. Google: Toxic Williamsburg. More press about the oil under Brooklyn than UFO's in Roswell and 90% of America believes they are real.
Does anyone remember what happened to Love Canal home owners? They were forced to leave their homes and lost their investment. Yuppie scum beware! (and buy my basement condo for $600,000)
In the last 10 years Williamsburg has become "important" because it has become an expensive place to live. In 10 years, when the hipsters and artists are gone and the yuppies ask why their kids have cancer there will be a well organized search for the truth. And what will the truth show? That anyone who read Vice Magazine before it sold out to Viacom knew that there was more oil under Williamsburg than in a super tanker. Fact. Exxon admits it.
So now what? Everyone with a vested interest in Williamsburg will lie and sell to the over-rich and under-smart and those who buy now will be left to pay to clean up the mess under their property.
Is The Blue Spruce over reacting? Try this little test: stand on the corner of North 11th and Roebling Street and sniff the air. Then go to a local broker and ask to buy one of the basement apartments in the area. Do the sniff test in one or two basement apartments. Tell the broker that you want to do a test for toxins in the soil under the apartment.
Try it! It's fun, informative and gives you interesting insight into the complex issues of Real Estate Dual Agency issues.
After the thrill of being a wise guy wears off, if you feel the need to reform real estate law and boycott Exxon... don't blame The Spruce.
Regards,
The Blue Spruce