Open Thread Wednesday

AND THE DAYS DWINDLE DOWN
As more and more of the Heights Library shelves
empty out. Per staff sometime before end of June
library to officially close.
lovebrooklynlibrariesinc.org
is willing to take the developer, BPL and the
politicians to court on June 10th.
Will you stand with us and help before the
bulldozers have their say?

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Nice pix but “self promotion” is a TOS violation, Woof!

Some ado in New York Kids Club this evening. Didn’t hear what happened or whether everyone is okay but hoping it was a non-event.

Thanks, you got it ; ))

Thanks for the heads up. I’m a parent of a Kids Clubber – just called and they said everything is fine. Person I spoke with didn’t even know what happened.

I don’t feel I know enough about the project to understand the pros and cons of either argument, but isn’t the deal already done?

Now you’ve gone and done it. Just by mentioning Joralemon Street, this OTW is going to get hijacked into a basketball court thread.

I guess you didn’t attend the public hearings where there was a fairly large and resounding response from the local community against the sale of the library. From my recollection, the main proponents of the sale were BPL board members, the architect and developer, library employees, unionized laborers and others with obvious conflicts of interest. I don’t understand how you arrive at VAST MAJORITY in support of the sale.

Like I said, walk down the block and ask people… Seriously. Interview the parents outside of PS8 picking up their kids… Ask shopkeepers, ask many of our elderly who enjoy stting outside of their homes and reading… I know many people here – and everyone, mostly, is for it. Not if it was going to include affordable housing, but without it, they all want it. Everyone wants a nice library to bring their kids for events like every other library in the country. What we had was not a very nice place – bums used to pee in the hallway. And the condo is going to bring people and activity to Cadman Plaza West, which is dark and lonely at night near the current library. Most reasonable people are not against development if it is legal, tastefully done, includes community input, and brings something positive to the neighborhood.

What!?! Did someone say Joralemon street!?!?!?!?! I….Can’t…..Control….Myself!!!!!!!!!

May I point out that not only has PS 8 been overcrowded for years, it just went through a pretty tough reasoning battle. You’d be hard pressed to find PS 8 parents in favor of new development in the zone.

As a current and longtime parent and board member at PS8, I can tell you that there’s not a lot of enthusiasm from parents about more housing in the neighborhood especially at the expense of a neutered library. The recent rezoning to alleviate overcrowding was an extremely divisive issue and didn’t even begin to fix the systemic problem facing PS8. As soon as the BPL condo comes online with Pierhouse and Pier 6 thereafter, the school which remains today at 130-140% capacity will quickly be facing a 50-100 family waitlist. At what point will the city finally realize that housing without basic infrastructure is just a recipe for disaster, regardless of what a random poll of neighborhood people reveals.

Per H.T.S.: can find at least 40 people who are for a new library.
H.T.S. seems to have missed the over 2 thousand SIGNED
PETITIONS submitted to B.P. Adams office. Most collected
in front of the Library.
lovebrooklynlibrariesinc.org
looks forward to meeting all 41 as well as the politicians, now under Federal investigation,
the BPL, and developer in
court on June 10th.
Let’s let these folks know that
sale (AKA theft) of a public
library is NOT acceptable
HERE!

My husband is an attorney for 35 years, and he made the observation that no one has asked for any kind of official probe of the personal finances of BPL Board members.
Also, family members, business associates, all the channels you look at when a deal this controversial goes through with this spèed.

So we’re blind as to even the most gross possible corruption which could be.

Proponents, opponents(!), The Press, ALL
have avoided this “little” aspect in this entire matter.