Squibb Bridge Repairs May Top $3 Million

By on October 9, 2016 9:31 am in brooklyn bridge park

According to Brooklyn Paper, the Squibb Bridge saga continues…this time to the tune of a few more million.

The paper reported on Friday that the board of Brooklyn Bridge Park voted to authorize $3.12 million to repair the bridge, which has been out of commission for exactly two years and two months.

The article details the tangled history of the Bridge, including this update that would verge on the absurd if it weren’t so maddening:

And to add injury to insult, developer Toll Brothers — which is building the luxury Pierhouse condominium complex on either side of the springy pathway — hit the bridge with a truck in May and damaged some of its cables, although it is coughing up an additional $790,000 to cover those costs, according to Patricia Kirshner, the park’s vice president of capital planning and construction.

Details at Brooklyn Paper…

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  • StudioBrooklyn

    I would hope so too, but let’s suppose one of two scenarios: (1) that urban planners were involved, or (2) that they were not (in effective terms, let’s say).

    In scenario 1, what research did they do? How did they gather data? Did they study crime and traffic patterns? Did they take into consideration how traffic would flow into and out of the park and what side effects might occur because of that traffic? What was the result of this research and was it communicated to the developer?

    In scenario 2, how would it have been possible for the development to proceed?

    I’m not sure how we can go about answering those questions but unfortunately I, for one, do not have the time or energy to do so.

  • redlola

    by posting this, you seem to have way more energy for this than i do. not sure what the point of the above is as researching it was not an ask here nor does it change anything..bottomline is if they were involved, they failed and it they were not, that is a failure onto itself. de facto evidence to support either assertion in the current pedestrian flow issues.

  • StudioBrooklyn

    Excuse me but we’re both writing comments, and neither of us is digging into the case history of the park or the bridge, so what do you mean by comparing our energy levels? Is this just you trying to be prickly again? I just told you I agreed with you that there seems to have been a failure to plan for the larger impact of the development on an urban scale. My point was to unpack this failure…really I was wondering if anyone knows more about it than I have time or energy to research, but thanks for your affectionate detours as always.

  • redlola

    dude, seriously stop it. you came into this conversation with something that did not even seem to have relevance other than to sound prickly. please try to be objective as to how you come off before complaining about how you’re “treated.” i am truly at a loss for why you don’t miss any opportunity to engage on stuff i post simply to try to stir up drama that isn’t there. i was done with this when it was Quinn and I. I am doubly done now as this dialogue literally serves no purpose.

  • StudioBrooklyn

    Ad hominem attacks in oddly typed sentences, cooked out of thin air on a Tuesday morning by a person who claims to work in a prominent law firm, lobbed at someone she doesn’t know and who only ever chimed in to agree with her. No wonder you’re so bent out of shape about the park. Your inner world seems like a volatile and hostile place; by comparison, park-goers must seem absolutely deadly. In short: what is your deal, lady??

  • redlola

    these imaginary fights you want to pick are so tiring.

  • Andrew Porter
  • StudioBrooklyn

    Are you trying to gaslight me? There’s no way you’re like this offline, right? I’ll probably be at Pierrepont Playground with my kid later, why don’t you come say hi, bring your kids, we can chat like grownups.

  • Concerned

    lol.

  • Concerned

    I had to look up “gaslight”.

  • MaryT

    I believe it was Larry, Curly, and Moe Associates, LLC.

  • GHB

    Kill the bridge! How about a big playground slide from the Promenade at Montague all the way down to the park. And in the summer, make it a water slide! How fun would that be?

  • Jorale-man

    That’s true – I thought about them but their jurisdiction is mainly over the area west of Hicks. Given that a lot of park-related problems run all the way down to Clinton and Court Streets, it would be good to have something more comprehensive.

  • Michael

    Shouldn’t they pay?

  • NeighboorHood

    Oh look….we REALLY need the revenue from more condo towers now, see! This has been the BBP board motis operandi all along. Choose the most expensive designs thus justifying the need for more revenue. Quite a neat little routine. Like when the news broke that they cooked the books and actually had a huge surplus going forward, all of a sudden they realized an urgent need to spend a hundred mill on piling maint. $7-8 MILLION for a footbridge which was operational for less than a year. But Hank Gutman abstained so it’s all totally legit see? Now we’re gonna take this “expertise” to The Strand! What could possibly go wrong? Regina Mayer gives renewed meaning to “failing up”.

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

    MaryT’s joke aside, the builder is not responsible as it was a faulty design.

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

    “their jurisdiction” as if they had any real power, LOL

  • redlola

    he has some seriously delusional obsession with me that i find disturbing. I finally blocked him.

  • Michael

    Who designed it?

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

    So he (they) is accountable

  • B.

    While not a Heights resident, I attended church and school in the Heights and have been walking in your beautiful neighborhood for over sixty years. I liked the little bridge. And I do not litter or overturn garbage cans.

    The trouble does not lie with the bridge itself.

    I also remember, by the way, your lovely used bookshop on Montague. The Heights has, sadly, changed in more than one way.

    Let’s hope you can, despite the criminal rowdiness of some of your guests, preserve some semblance of your old tranquility.

  • MaryT

    Sorry, Michael, I was goofing. What seriously bothers me is the LLC style of the BBP board. I do love the park vision. Problem is, ‘public-private’ doesn’t work so well for accountability to real neighborhoods. And I fear we’ll have more of this as the downtown extension gets going.

  • Michael

    No worries MaryT. I know the stooges. Are they heights residents? (Kidding). I am asking if Ted Zoli would be accountable.

  • NeighboorHood

    Hi Michael. I was at the BBP board meeting last year when, as usualy, they tried to quickly vote yes on spending $700K to REPAIR the bridge without any talk of determining what went wrong, who was responsible, pursuing those parties to recoup our park $ and updating the public on the findings! Thankfully some of us in attendance raised a stink & Steve Levin put them on the spot, at which point Regin Mayer snd Alicia Glenn changed course and agreed! They then waffled. This is what those of us pushing for no more condo building in the park and financial transperancy have been trying to expose. And what happened to that 700K? This board (1of whom purchased a condo in the Pier House while it was being planned approved and developed, no kidding) to be investigated and replaced. Period. http://www.brooklyneagle.com/articles/2015/4/9/brooklyn-bridge-park-commits-pursuing-700000-cost-repair-bouncy-squibb-bridge

  • Michael

    Wow. 700k to 3.12million, that is real money ‘and here is a condo for your troubles. Dodgy stuff.

  • bklyn84

    For those who would like to follow the legal case, Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation’s complaint against HNTB is index number 450115/2016.

    Depositions, documents, etc. have been collected over the past several months.

    The court has set December 1 as the end date for disclosure.

    You can read efiled documents at:
    https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/webcivil/FCASeFiledDocsDetail?county_code=pAUWQhgKZH00DAPOm9xhJA%3D%3D&txtIndexNo=oNxD1JlHyi%2FbKvMAS6ddZg%3D%3D&showMenu=no&isPreRji=N

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

    Yes and he, they are being sued by the BBP.

  • Michael

    Thanks, this is helpful

  • gc

    Are you saying that Gutman is being sued?

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