TRO Issued on Brooklyn Bridge Park Pier 6 Towers

By on July 19, 2014 10:33 am in brooklyn bridge park, Real Estate

As previously reported, area resident Lori Schomp is not a fan of the current plan for housing in Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pier 6. Emboldened by just under 3,000 signatures on her petition at Change.org, the activist won her first battle yesterday:

Brooklyn Eagle: The city seeks to include 30 percent moderate- and middle-income housing in the luxury waterfront project.

The group also says a supplemental environmental review needs to be carried out because park circumstances have drastically changed since the housing plans were initially made. These changes include Superstorm Sandy, significantly increased vehicular and pedestrian traffic, a change in park finances and overcrowding in neighborhood schools.

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Lori Schomp, a petitioner in the legal action along with fellow Willowtown resident Joseph Merz, said in a statement, “Planning must take into account current circumstances, and new consideration must now be given to what Brooklyn needs in terms of park space and services to accommodate park visitors as well as school, traffic and other infrastructure challenges faced by local residents.

She added, “I support the mayor’s visionary efforts on affordable housing; however, putting additional luxury housing—even with an affordable component— in the Brooklyn Bridge Park takes away public green space from all of the people of Brooklyn.”

NYS Senator Daniel Squadron, NYS Assemblymember Joan Millman, and NYC Councilmembers Brad Lander and Steve Levin issued the following statement regarding the lawsuit:

“This lawsuit is yet another example of why we have urged the administration to stop moving forward at a breakneck speed on the Bloomberg-era plan for housing at Pier 6, and instead begin to work with the community.

“We have long voiced concern about housing in the park and will continue to do so, especially in light of the continued unknowns at the LICH site, which is a stone’s throw from Pier 6 and will have infrastructure and planning impacts on the same immediate area. The Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation and the Administration should immediately cease any action on this RFP and begin a community-driven process to revisit other viable options to the Bloomberg plan for housing at Pier 6.”


Final Press Release 7.18.2014 3-30 PM by Brooklyn Heights Blog

Final MOL_people for Green Space by Brooklyn Heights Blog

Final Petition_people for Green Space by Brooklyn Heights Blog

OSC_People for Green Space by Brooklyn Heights Blog

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  • Doug Biviano

    Actually, here it is…Quinn Raymond is part of the Sikora Campaign so it explains why he is shilling for de Blasio’s affordable housing in the park and now LICH (exactly my point as Sikora’s strings will be pulled by Lander and de Blasio and your power as a voter siphoned from the neighborhood see dougbiviano.com):
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    I am supporting Sikora primarily because he was instrumental in
    passing the lead paint law of 2004, which has had a tremendous impact on
    the health of our city’s kids. I also think his experience in Albany
    will make him more effective in the Assembly.

    We don’t agree on everything, but I think he’ll be quite good.

    http://brooklynheightsblog.com/archives/68318

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  • Quinn Raymond

    On this specific issue (Pier 6 development) I understand I represent a minority view (15% if you go by the poll above).

    Sikora and I argued about this quite vehemently. Needless to say no matter how much I tried I could no more convince him of my view than any of the people in this thread.

    I’m still supporting him though because he is genuinely substantive, intelligent, and has a real record of getting things done.

  • Quinn Raymond

    10 years from now I’m going to enjoy watching local politicians go campaigning in these new developments they once opposed. I wonder if they’ll mention it?

  • Doug Biviano

    Quinn, have you ever been paid by the Sikora campaign or any organization the Sikora campaign has paid or is supporting or connected to Sikora’s campaign in some capacity? How about the same questions with the WFP, Lander, de Blasio elections in the past? Any connection whatsoever?

    With all due respect, I’m just not feeling that you’re doing all this shilling for Sikora/Lander/de Blasio (trademark brand) because that’s what you do in your spare time.

  • Quinn Raymond

    NO, absolutely not. And I have to say I’m insulted.

    I live in the community, and I care about it. I’ve studied these topics quite a bit and I have opinions about them. Is that OK with you?

    I know it’s hard for you to understand that some people in the community might not agree with you or support you but given your performance in past elections I’d have thought you’d know that by now.

  • Doug Biviano

    Not buying it. What campaigns have you worked on before? Any?

  • Quinn Raymond

    The last time I was paid for working on a campaign was in 2005, for Kavanagh’s council race in Manhattan.

    Why don’t you disclose some of your income and your contributions? You’re the candidate.

    I think it’s interesting that you are choosing to run yet again in a race that you know you will lose. Who put you up to doing that? What is your motivation? Is someone paying you to be a spoiler?

    See, we can both wildly speculate.

  • Quinn Raymond

    I would happily raise taxes to properly finance everything you just listed. Sadly that will not happen.

  • NeighboorHood

    @JoeA what am I not comprehending. BB wrote “It’s so slanted that it’s persuaded over 80% to agree with Ms. Schomp in our poll.” How do you not read that as BB saying there coverage pursuaded 80% to vote against in the poll? The BB coverage is the it’s in “it’s”!

  • Doug Biviano

    My motivation is to return the power of governing back to the neighborhoods. I’m a father of three in this community and I’m in this race to fight for our children and grand children in these great neighborhoods that are being ruined by corruption, greed and the permanent political class.

    When hospitals close, people die! Loved ones die!

    I’m in it to fight the campaign deception of the permanent politicians and their hand picked replacements like de Blasio and Peter Sikora in their relentless pursuit — masters of elections — to strip the power of voters in our neighborhoods for their special interests far removed from our district. That’s why!

    For more on the deception de Blasio and Sikora are involved in, see:

    DougBiviano.com

  • Doug Biviano

    I rest my case…Kavanagh is the WFP line a.k.a. the Sikora/Lander/de Blasio (TM) cabal that is behind the relentless power grab of neighborhood political power to the hands of a central organization with an out of district agenda and special interests far removed. This is the power that closes neighborhood hospitals and puts housing in parks where it doesn’t belong.

    Mr. Raymond you are a loyal shill. Wear it proudly!

  • Quinn Raymond

    Cabal?

    Wow.

    Hey, maybe you could get some of these made with your campaign logo?

  • BrooklynBugle

    Giacomo/Neighboorhood – maybe you should start with sticking with one handle before we go any further. Also “their” not “there”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gv0H-vPoDc

  • BrooklynBugle

    Weird Al has a song for that too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-0TEJMJOhk

  • Quinn Raymond

    I think it’s funny that someone who can’t even file his campaign finance reports on time would demand so much transparency from a commenter on a blog.

  • NeighboorHood

    LOL.. so my forgeting my old BHB handle (and readily admitting it) and a typo in my spelling. This is the editorial response from the BHB after repeatedly asking you to address the slant in the writing of this post and poll. This is also the BHB reply to my calling you on your insinuating the poll and comments were astroturfed by those of us residents who oppose the high rises in the park? But there’s NO editorial slant here. Oh no…. Love, Neighborhood aka Giacomo

  • David on Middagh

    Been loving that brilliant video for days now. If someone tells you that they can slyly combine 8th-grade food humor with Inceptionesque layers of cultural commentary, and their name’s not “Weird Al”, they’re probably lying.

  • Joe A

    Look up the word sarcasm my friend. It was a sarcastic remark that their article was so biased yet 80% of readers voted the opposite way after reading the article suggesting it was’t so biased after all.

    Is it really necessary that I should be explaining this to you? Yikes.

  • Joe A

    It may be the end of the world as we know it. Oh, the humanity!

  • NeighboorHood

    See if you can comprehend this over the sound of your flag fluttering JoeA: The fact that the public has been burned so many times by these development screw jobs and are overwhelmingly against the high rises in the park is neither because of, nor in spite of the BHB article. Regardless, the wording of the poll “do agree with Ms S and her group” and continuous highlighting of 1 comment in favor of the buildings over 80 plus other comments IS biased. Ot at the very least gives the impression of bias, which is what Henry’s End was commenting on. Also, the continuos snarky non-reply replies from the blog editor to those readers asking politely posing questions to it does not help that appearance. You may return to your flag waving sir.

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