Plans For High Rise Buildings At Pier 6 On Ice

By on February 27, 2016 11:22 pm in brooklyn bridge park, Development, News, Real Estate

The Wall Street Journal reports (the full article is behind a paywall, but you can now get a three month subscription for one dollar) that the board of the Empire State Development Corporation, which has authority over Brooklyn Bridge Park, has put a freeze on plans to build two high rise residential buildings on the Pier 6 uplands in Brooklyn Bridge Park “following objections from local elected officials and community groups to any [new] housing in the park.” The WSJ story quotes ESDC board spokesman Jonah Bruno as saying the city needs “additional time to work with the community to mitigate the significant concerns they have raised about the project’s potential impacts.”

Both the WSJ piece and a story in Gothamist headlined “NIMBYs Get State To Block Affordable Housing At Brooklyn Bridge Park” play heavily on the inclusion in the planned high rises of an affordable housing component as motivating community opposition. The addition of affordable housing re-opened consideration of the previous all luxury housing plan, which was opposed by the same community groups, and gave those groups a second chance to voice their opposition.

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  • StudioBrooklyn

    Yes, that sounds pretty accurate.

  • Jeffrey Smith

    Well, I was just on Joralemon to visit someone. My friend and I briefly stopped on his stoop. In the brief time I was there, I counted 22 darlings coming from the basketball courts. Loudly producing streams of four letter words, accounts of thier
    latest, well I won’t use the term, and who they’re going to @#*% up.

    This, kiddies is on February 28th! at 8 PM when it’s 52 degrees….!!!!

    Want to guess what Regina’s legions will be like on May or June 28th?

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlsiLOnWCoI Arch Stanton

    Your bigotry is blatant and unwelcome.

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlsiLOnWCoI Arch Stanton

    Said the scared whiteboy.

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlsiLOnWCoI Arch Stanton

    “or worse” Oh what are you suggesting?

  • One Who knows

    Why is reporting what he actually saw bigotry? Maybe you are guilty of reverse bigotry. Perhaps you should become a police officer in Cologne and like Sgt Schultz see nothing…nothing!

  • AEB

    It is bigotry because it assumes criminal intent of a group whose identity is coded black and associates that identity and intent with stereotypical characteristics.

  • Jeffrey Smith

    My accuracy and fidelity to reporting the truth is open and (for the real interests of my neighbors) very welcome.

  • Jeffrey Smith

    Every extreme type who wants to control all public discourse, moves to label everything they don’t want aired as racism, bigotry, conspiracy theory, et al.

    No, I did not make any identification of those involved. And in no way aledged criminal behavior. This for two reasons;

    First, because IT DOESN’T MATTER WHO is doing what I witnessed
    Let’s say they were Bazillians or icelandics it still is Very, Very
    unacceptable behavior.

    Second: because behavior (as I think you well know) doesn’t have to
    be criminal to be highly disruptive and distructive to the
    character and general interests of any nighborhood.

    I’m sorry, my comments were reasonable and appropriate and most of all accurate I speak to you as my brave forefathers spoke to King George… Make the most of what I said.

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlsiLOnWCoI Arch Stanton

    10 pounds of s#!t in a 5 pound sack…

  • Jeffrey thick skin Smith

    Mr. Scales, I’m the last person to complain, and its very hard for me take any such comments as serious. But terms like scared whitboy and bag of….well I won’t repeat the obscenity, does that promote the best interests of this community?

    I certainly realize that my honest observations are outsiide of what some want to hear. But some of the responses I do feel are approaching the clearly ugly and inappropriate.

    I personally find many of these comments at times laughable and well, silly. But some viewers may be seriously offended

  • AEB

    OK, Jeffrey, let’s substitute “malfeasance” for “criminal”–nothing regarding my claim, or the truth of it, is changed, is it?

  • A Tree

    I’ll say this: I oppose the towers in the park but I don’t really have an issue with the library tower. it’s being built right next to another high rise. Cadman Plaza is already surrounded by them. That’s a good fit in that location.

  • http://selfabsorbedboomer.blogspot.com/ Claude Scales

    Well, you did credit yourself with a thick skin. As for other readers, I think they’re pretty much inured to the rough and tumble of BHB commentary. I liked your comment on Bargemusic.

  • Francois de la Brioschi

    EVERYBODY STOP..BREAKING NEWS…BREAKIÑG NEWS…BREAKING NEWS…
    BREAKING NEWS…

    THE BUGHATTI CINRON PICTURES AND SPECS HAVE JUST BEEN RELEASED

    Go to You Tube, the press conference has just been held in Hamburg and its on the Motor Trend Channel along with like 50 other YT sites. 1500 HP like 280 mph plus perhaps 300 in some configurations, and a LOT of the French sophisticated/ugly look is GONE! In some ways truely breathtaking! Released in last few hours.

    Hey, folks lighten up.

  • Jeff holding head now Smith

    Why don’t you lighten up and go to You Tube and access:

    Deep in the heart of Texas by Geraint Watkins

    (warning contains terrible racist language…)

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlsiLOnWCoI Arch Stanton

    “I’m the last person to complain” LOL LOL LOL

  • Willow Street Watch

    Yes, but what if I had used the exact reverse of white scared kid or obscenities? What kind of howling(s) would instantly result? This is terrible! I’m being (gasp) discrimimated against!

    And I suggest we move on to something more substantive… like if the BBPC is filing deceptive financial statements, why isn’t the NYS
    Attorney General and the Feds instantly involved?

  • http://selfabsorbedboomer.blogspot.com/ Claude Scales

    I’m waiting for the Renault that won the 1906 Grand Prix.

  • CHatter

    Since no one else bit on the question you posed, I’ll have a go. I like the idea of allowing the low-rise building, provided that (i) they retain and expand the promised pre-K space in a way that covers all the current and future projected demand for the newly-rationalized PS8 zone (thereby leaving programming in PS8’s existing building on Hicks to start at kindergarten) and (ii) all the units are designated for affordable housing. Call the NIMBY-hurlers bluff.

  • StudioBrooklyn

    THANK YOU! Hypothetical questions are like pulling teeth sometimes. Sheesh!

  • Jeffrey Smith

    Well, they has the THOMAS FLYER (along with an original 1951 NASCAR
    Hudson Hornet) at the Louis Vuitton
    show at Rock Ctr one year….

  • Pierrepont

    As long as the first floor of One Brooklyn Bridge Park is operating at less than 50% occupancy, and we have Chase bank and all the other conversions opening soon, we have no need for new multi-use towers along the waterfront. This freeze is good news, as far as I’m concerned!

  • bklyn20

    The park is legally a “development project,” which of course was not in the original plan and which term was hidden from the public for some time. It needs to become designated parkland. That way no more of any kind of housing, of any affordable or un-affordable types, may be put there. I only pray that any other contiguous parts of the river parks that , no doubt, will come should also be designated parkland.

  • StudioBrooklyn

    I’d love to see it be designated as park land. Is that in any way realistic?

  • Reggie

    There were bazillions of loud Bazillians, I tell ya!

  • Jeffrey Smith

    SPECIAL REPORT…
    Speaking about housing going up, there was quite a scene last night at 27 Monroe
    place. This is the single family build which being constructed. Like at 11:30 neighbors notice the door to the building WIDE OPEN, lights all on and, several say, two men entering. Police were called 5 cars responded lights off. Several called this in as a break in in progress. Police stormed into the building. They swepted the building called to roof but apparently the perps had fled. There WAS a car with a driver outside carefully watching the door. Police came up empty but they DID
    padlock the front door using the apparent owner’s lock!

    All this is REALLY bad news. The Heights has a LONG history of un/poorly secured
    construction sites and the dangerious incidents resulting…Hey, the St George fire happened after months of intrusions. The 27 building has a long history of security problems including youth raves, and squatters. The last gutting/rehab which produced the Brooklyn Law School student housing unit ALSO produced two fires. Remember when neighbors sick of the noise and behavior complained and one of the “kids” charged out of the building and used a pipe on the head of one of thier detractors?

    Several neighbors are now, I understand, are in the process of making formal complaint to a number city agencies over this.

  • gatornyc

    OBBP is fully occupied and has been for several years.

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