Open Thread Wednesday 3/4/15

By on March 4, 2015 12:16 am in Brooklyn Heights

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  • CassieVonMontague

    I like the LPC coverage. Thanks, Evan.

  • gc

    Is it possible that they’ve added an additional level to the northernmost building at Pier1? It looks that way to me.

  • CHatter

    I don’t think so, no. The windows have now been installed on all but the top floor of the hotel, which perhaps sets it off visually. Nevertheless, still too tall!

  • ShinyNewHandle

    I’m a little dumbstruck by the B&W photograph at top; how it penetrates the duteous territoriality of city life, then layers on hostility and foreboding.

  • miriamcb

    There were heavily armed police officers (assault rifles) outside the courthouse today (by usps) patrolling, apparently because of a specific court case that was happening today. I didn’t have time to stop and really ask details, anyone know?

  • Bongo

    Looks like this: (Abid Naseer, Terror Suspect, Is Found Guilty on All Counts in 2009 Bomb Plot)

    http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/05/nyregion/abid-naseer-terror-suspect-found-guilty-on-all-counts-in-2009-bomb-plot.html

  • miriamcb

    Thanks. I was trying to figure out what was happening in federal court then that would require police officers guarded like that. Looks like this is it.

  • Roberto Gautier

    Folks who might be interested can bring questions for NYC Department of Environmental Protection officials this coming Wednesday, March 11th at 5:30 pm at Brooklyn Borough Hall. This forum is organized by the Brooklyn Borough President’s office. It will be an opportunity to know how the DEP and city government plans to deal with flooding, traffic congestion, air pollution and noise issues, including waivers of the NYC Noise Code to permit after-hours construction. Environmental conditions in Brooklyn Heights mark our neighborhood as having one of the city’s highest asthma rates. Undoubtedly,
    the 24/7 traffic on the BQE, Manhattan Bridge, Brooklyn Bridge, Cadman Plaza West and marine traffic in the port make our neighborhood an environmental hotspot.

  • old man

    I cant make the meeting. But would someone please bring up the impact reckless bikers have on this area I dont recall the last time i had to watch for a polluting horrible car on the sidewalk. Or the last time someone was flying down Henry st the wrong way on an electric bike which is virtually silent to pedrstrians to deliver awful spoiled cold food.

  • AEB

    My thought EXACTLY, ShinyNewHandle….

  • Resident

    The traffic on Cadman Plaza has become what seems like triple compared to, lets say, early 2000’s. It all started when the DOT put up a sign at thr corner of Clinton and Cadman that says you should turn left for the Bridge instead of going straight. Now taxis speed down Cadman like crazy to try and get through the greed lights…

  • CHatter

    Traffic, air quality, noise pollution and stress on the cantilevered portion of the BQE would be significantly improved with a single act: tolls on the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges (Ok, perhaps that’s two acts, but you get the drift). Much of the traffic on that portion of the BQE, and I suspect some on Cadman Plaza West, is from drivers looking to avoid tolls at the Brooklyn Battery tunnel. If that toll arbitrage were eliminated, I’m guessing we would see a big improvement.

  • Guest

    Every once in a while there’s a typo that’s truly fortuitous. “[T]he greed lights” is one (unless you meant it).

  • http://selfabsorbedboomer.blogspot.com ClaudeScales

    This was meant to be a reply to “Resident” below, but I posted it in the wrong place. I tried to delete it and re-post it in the right place, but #@&! Disqus won’t allow that.

  • Resident

    Lol. A mistake, but yes, certainly a lot of greed around our parts…

  • Resident

    I think what you would see would be toll booths on Cadman Plaza West with a line of traffic and a fog of pollution choking all the people in North Heights and CO Park…

  • Andrew Porter

    Meanwhile, pile driving is happening in Manhattan on South Street, right next to the Manhattan Bridge, for twin 70+ story apartment buildings. No view plane for those people:

    http://tinyurl.com/nhojg3g

  • Andrew Porter

    It’s Hicks Street looking south from just below the intersection with Clark Street. Good shot.

  • Andrew Porter

    “Greed lights”: great typo!

  • ShinyNewHandle

    AEB, is that a film-shoot canopy we see in the background? Could this be the actual parking-disruptive movie shoot that exercised Homer? Did he transform his passionate frustration into art?

  • CHatter

    Clearly toll collection logistics will present a design challenge, no doubt about that. I’d like to think that good urban planning could concentrate that @ Tillary Street

  • StoptheChop

    I can’t be there, but will someone ask whether DEP will do anything to resolve the nonstop, noise polluting tourist helicopters (about 300 flights/day “in season”, which lasts from Easter-New Years Eve)? The Mayor refuses to ban them from the NYC heliport, despite 20+ other elected officials and numerous community groups asking him to do so, and despite the numerous studies that have shown the negative health impacts from helicopter drone, even if at lower decibels than noisier sources. (Note: he actually doesn’t dispute any of this, or any of the other points that Reps Velazquez and Nadler have raised over the years!) At least we don’t have to deal with the 10 hrs/day of fumes that the Manhattan-side folks are exposed to.

  • Willow Street Watch

    No, you can’t object to a 175 to 250. lb
    (With rider) vehicle on the sidewalk
    Doing near 40 mph..don’t you under
    stand they have almost zero carbon
    Footprint so in agenda 21 land they
    Are allowed to injure as many elderly
    and anyone else they want..

  • Willow Street Watch

    The helicopter problem over the Heights
    Is far more serious than only the tourist
    flights. The amount of Tonnage of’ what’s now every day overhead is also
    media AND the whole *public safety”
    Sector aircraft. Flights of which have greatly expanded for some reason in the last year. Including stationar hovering for Hours. Forget the constant
    Mind numbing noise…think of the real
    constant DANGER of ‘what is overhead.
    No one is thinking about that..

  • Banet

    There would be no backup for toll collection. Toll collection technology is sophisticated enough that they will just read your EZ Pass as you go by at 50 mph. If you don’t have an EZ Pass they will get a photo of your license plate and mail you a bill (for a higher amount, therefore encouraging you to get a pass). And 83% of NYC cars have an EZ Pass.

  • wksnyc

    I see Smorgasburg is back at Pier 5 this year. I thought they were moving to another location! ugh.

  • StoptheChop

    The Marina isn’t installed, which was why Smorgasburg was supposed to be at Pier 5 only “temporarily” (until the Marina’s there). Ugh indeed.

  • Kenji Takabayashi

    I cleaned my windowsill on Sunday after 8 months and wow it’s pitch black. ( I have tall Windows only do the top 2x a year.) For Windows, nearly half a roll of paper towels. I’m on poplar right off hicks.

  • ShinyNewHandle

    I’m a block from you, Kenji. BQE folks represent!

    I tried out a *cool* mist humidifier this winter, so now I have *white* dust, too! (I’m calling the TV screen in the next room my “auxiliary mineral filter”.)

  • Kenji Takabayashi

    Ha. Welp…can’t expect not to have soot next to one of the most traveled highways in one of the most populated cities. Thats a good idea though. Air purifier is next on the purchase list.

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