Tag: rezoning
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City Seeks Developer to Finance Parks on Greenpoint Waterfront
http://articles.nydailynews.com/2012-08-20/news/33290596_1_mta-vehicles-waterfront-assemblyman-joe-lentol
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Transmitter Park and the 2005 Rezoning
http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20120820/greenpoint/city-open-transmitter-park-this-weekend
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City Attempts to Develop Long-Stalled Greenpoint Park
http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20120814/williamsburg/city-attempts-develop-long-stalled-greenpoint-park
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Albest Site Marketed for $27 Million
http://therealdeal.com/blog/2012/06/29/deal-is-close-for-27m-williamsburg-site-where-hotel-could-rise/
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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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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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LPC Warehouse RFP Issued
http://www.brownstoner.com/blog/2012/05/city-seeking-developer-to-turn-old-lpc-warehouse-in-williamsburg-into-affordable-housing/#more-95640
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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