Tag: parks
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City Reneges on Promised Brooklyn Waterfront Parks
Source: Wall Street Journal I’d been meaning to write a wrap-up post on last week’s City Council hearing on the status of the 2005 rezoning of the Williamsburg & Greenpoint waterfront, including the many articles that led up to the hearing. Happily, the Working Harbor Committee has done that for me – written a concise,…
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City Won’t Promise to Finish Two Long-Stalled North Brooklyn Parks
As the Brooklyn Paper reports, the Bloomberg administration has refused to commit to any goals or deliverables on the acquisition or construction of Bushwick Inlet Park or 65 Commercial Street. (I guess everyone has given up on the expansion of Barge Park?) Financial mismanagement and planning gaffes have also stood in the way of both…
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Brooklyn Waits on Promise of a Park
Stuck in Park Source: WSJ The Wall Street Journal has a lengthy article (and excellent graphic) on the fight to get the Bloomberg administration to follow through on the parks and affordable housing it promised Williamsburg and Greenpoint in the 2005 rezoning. Often there are community benefit components that make rezonings more acceptable than they…
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Let Us Drink in the Parks
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/let_us_drink_in_the_parks_rJL5DGQmnf3HQCZR6fp2xL
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Residents, Pols Irked Over Slow Parks Progress
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/residents-pols-irked-1-park-built-williamsburg-waterfront-article-1.1093815?localLinksEnabled=false
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The ‘Drastic Miscalculation’ That Stalled the Greening of Greenpoint-Williamsburg
http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/politics/2012/05/5921745/drastic-miscalculation-stalled-greening-greenpoint-williamsburg
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City Takes Bids on McCarren Pool Ice Rink Concession
It’s been 28 years since anyone swam at McCarren Park Pool, but believe it or not, there will be people swimming in it this summer. And there will be people skating at the pool this winter – the city recently issued this RFP for “the operation of a seasonal ice rink at McCarren Park Pool“.…
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From Alaska, Great Concern for Central Park
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/26/from-afar-great-concern-for-central-park/
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The Hot Seat: Laura Treciokas
http://www.brownstoner.com/blog/2012/01/the-hot-seat-laura-treciokas/#more-79073
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Did the City Miscalculate Value of Bushwick Inlet Park?
Short answer – yes. Yolane Almanzar of the fledgling New York World has a very thorough rundown of why Williamsburg and Greenpoint may never see a park at Bushwick Inlet. The article is mostly about how grossly the city underestimated the value of the properties – by an order of magnitude, as it turns out.…