Open Thread Wednesday

By on September 28, 2016 12:24 am in open thread

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  • Cranberry Beret

    I was not in favor of selling the library or building this high-rise but I disagree with your dire warnings. No one likes construction but that’s not a reason not to ever build. Your concerns about traffic in particular seem to fear-mongering. There’s plenty of room on Cadman Plaza West in front of the site for construction staging; Tillary and the intersection are multi-lane and not likely to get choked like you see on single-lane streets when construction vehicles unload.

    Your time would be better spent to keep talking about the major defects in our policy making process (taking down the oxymoron that is the “city planning” department) than harping on negligible side effects from a done deal.

  • Teresa

    At least as a big part of the problem are the drivers that clog up lanes on the left, trying to jump in the exit lanes on the right to avoid sitting in traffic. They do this on the bridge itself, and at the right that curves onto Cadman, towards DUMBO and the BQE. Those drivers force the people who want to head straight onto Middagh to wait behind until they can merge. I’d guess they cause more tie-ups than pedestrians do.

  • StudioBrooklyn

    I noticed recently that a sign on the Brooklyn Bridge actually directs the cars to do this. More conspicuous signage indicating what the left lane of the offramp should ACTUALLY be used for might be a big step. Here’s Google Street View: https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/86da242d6149acf782e9501186d6cc7bfeee9e71de05902abfbaf1d4e4f312d0.png

  • StudioBrooklyn

    Then when you get to the offramp, no indication is given as to which lanes go where. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/050d8b7139984eb15080dfea11cdcb22f12743b15b5b775a77820be3f55988a1.png

  • PUFFS

    City still owns the Library so not
    such a done deal.
    Seen any bulldozers lately?

  • Andrew Porter

    No bulldozers, but the inside is empty, and ceiling panels have been removed, as they prepare to strip the building of recyclables.

  • PUFFS

    Can’t touch a building you
    do not own.
    I still see desks, chairs and
    bookshelves all intact.
    Which Library are you looking
    at?
    If ceiling panels removed
    would be in violation of EPA
    due to age of that building.

  • Justine Swartz

    You forgot to mention the multitude of Tourist Double Decker Buses
    running every ten minutes.

  • Justine Swartz

    Dear Andrew and Cranberry
    You seem stuck in time. The library is Not a done deal .LoveBrooklynlibrariesinc
    Is succesfully raising funds for an already filed legal appeal.The books can be returned and the library refurbished
    after we win on appeal. The US and District Attorney are investigating. Approximately 90 % of folks polled in Brooklyn Heights are disgusted by library selloffs
    Keep us to date and visit our website
    http://www.lovebrooklynlibraries
    Also on facebook

  • Traffic is my nemesis

    Time to get squadron on this asap before decisions are made

  • AbeLincoln

    I’m a cyclist and agree. I rarely, if ever see cyclists following the rules. They don’t stop at lights, ride the wrong way and on sidewalks. Until they can play by the rules i have no sympathy. That said, it would be great if the city was more bicycle friendly.

  • Diesel

    True but 95+% of the cars exiting there are regulars and know full well which lane they should be in.

  • Diesel

    You forgot to mention “Bucks County”

  • Diesel

    1. The BHD is where it is because it is near the criminal courthouse. In fact, ther is an underground tunnel linking the two.
    2. The 6’x8′ “rooms” with concrete walls, would not be easy to convert to luxury condos. Thus the building would need to be demolished, at great expense due to the solid nature of its construction.
    3. Rebuilding a new prison would be very costly and negate any profit a developer might hope to gain from such a deal.

  • Sick of dogpoop

    To the dog walker slob that walks a huge pack of dogs around the nabe. Pick up after your dogs. If you are seen walking away from a steaming pile again you will be photographed and also reported to irs and the ny tax dept. doubt you are paying tax on the money u make. Dont test this. Clean up your dog poop loser.

  • StudioBrooklyn

    How do you figure?

  • Concerned

    Oh that is some BS!!! You need to take that picture and post it here, as well. I NEVER have let someone walk away from dog crap without cleaning it. It is every NY’ers duty to at least say something. And if this person is actually making money on it while destroying our neighborhood!?! No way.
    Which dog walker was it? I doubt they read this blog but dog owners at least need to know so that they can take their business elsewhere.

  • Reggie

    Well, not quite. LBL filed its Notice of Appeal, which simply opens the option of appealing. Complainant hasn’t actually appealed and half of the six-month window to do so has passed. All the legal action is doing is postponing the opening date of the replacement library, if even that.

  • Reggie

    I don’t think someone needs to live in Brooklyn to spot hyperbole. The traffic tie-ups will not be massive nor will they affect all of Brooklyn or the entire city. Unlike the Donnell Library fiasco, the four year construction period is a contractual requirement, not an estimate. But hey, why should the project opponents bother to get the facts right now?

  • Diesel

    (growls)
    Because it’s commuter traffic.

  • Sick of dogpoop

    Im not sure who he is. He is bald and about 6 ft tall 30 ish. He walks about 6 very expensive and well groomed dogs. He is often on cranberry st bet hicks and henry around 930 to 10 am.

  • Concerned

    Thank you! If this guy walks anyone on this blog’s dogs, please chastise him. Thank you.

  • B.

    I am in favor of pedestrians and tourists and even their buses. We can use the revenue. I only meant that since traffic is already heavy, certainly much heavier than even half a dozen years ago, construction at the library will make things worse.

    It’s funny that now that there are two lanes exiting the Bridge to the right, those lanes are snarled worse than they were when there was only the right lane turning and the center lane sometimes sneaking in to make a left onto Court. They legalized what everyone was already doing, and made it worse. Same with exit from FDR onto Bridge ramp.

  • Justine Swartz

    Construction trucks at the Brooklyn Heights Library will create bottleneck traffic and not the wonderful tourists and their buses.

  • StudioBrooklyn

    (Feeds Diesel a treat. We make out a little. More scritching.)
    Who’s a clever boy? You are. I think you’re probably right. Seems like one of those instances where people knowingly do something improperly, perhaps expecting better results or giving themselves a pass on etiquette.

  • redlola

    was saddened to see that someone wrote trump in red point on the light pole on the corner of hicks and clark. fittingly, it looked like blood smears.

  • redlola

    i see him and his wife in dumbo a lot. will tell him.

  • Concerned

    Wait, is this guy in good shape and has a blond wife? Is that who we’re talking about? Please confirm or deny. That would surprise me that he wouldn’t clean up because he’s so recognizable and (I believe) has a big operation.

  • Concerned

    NYC is in clear and present danger if Trump wins. Most of the dummies who vote for Trump live in places that are number 5,000+ to be attacked by others. I’m glad the next debate will be a town hall format. Trump normally is carried by Hannity and other cronies in that format. Up there alone he will show his true deficiencies, again.

  • Robert Perris

    Fun with math. Three times as large or 200 percent larger, or 1.5 times what is generally allowable elsewhere downtown or 50 percent larger.

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