BREAKING: City Council Approves Dock Street Dumbo
The headline says it all…The City Council just approved by a margin of 39 40 to 9 the rezoning the make Two Trees’ Dock Street Dumbo project a reality. More details to follow, we’re sure…UPDATE: Quote from Two Trees’ Jed Walentas: “We are grateful for today’s vote by the City Council approving Dock Street Dumbo…
The headline says it all…The City Council just approved by a margin of 39 40 to 9 the rezoning the make Two Trees’ Dock Street Dumbo project a reality. More details to follow, we’re sure…UPDATE: Quote from Two Trees’ Jed Walentas: “We are grateful for today’s vote by the City Council approving Dock Street Dumbo and want to thank all the Council members for their careful deliberations and support. Two Trees is both honored and proud to be able to provide the community with a new middle school, affordable housing and a thoughtful, environmentally friendly green building that will add to the vibrant, historic waterfront neighborhood of Dumbo.” ANOTHER UPDATE: From Gus Sheha, President of the Dumbo Neighborhood Association: To our members, neighbors and admirers of the Brooklyn Bridge, far and wide, we assure you that our fight against Dock Street does not end here. As stewards of the Brooklyn Bridge, we are exploring various legal and governmental investigatory actions to counter the assault committed by Two Trees Management, aided and abetted by City Council, on our cultural heritage and history.
Sam…Tish James’ stock is greatly inflated (cleanse your eyes, don’t fall for a Ponzi), she stands up for herself only.
Please pinpoint where it is exactly that she has effected change in children’s education and affordable housing? I understand that she overcharged her tenants at 296 Lafayette without affording them the necessary safety, cleanliness, and improvements, so she certainly doesn’t practice what she preaches – she’s a slumlord. I know she points fingers at other landlords for their poor housing practices, but she has to look no further than the mirror in re poor behavior.
But please enlighten us re her accomplishments, ’cause I haven’t seen any!
I second Sam…thank God this is over. What an absurd and pointless battle. Talk about a classic fight between the very rich and the absurdly rich (Two Trees).
“Stewards of the Brooklyn Bridge” my ass. Gimme a break. Does anyone REALLY believe these entitled assholes cared about anything other than the views from their million dollar condos?
Pardon my lack of modesty, but I’d say I pretty much nailed it:
“82.1% of Community Board 2 voted for the project. 84.6% of the City Planning Commission approved of it. I’m predicting 42-9 at the City Council.
Posted by: altervoce at April 22, 2009 4:16 PM”
The building is not that impressive looking. At least put some cornices up there will you, but I am happy to see this go through. What sort of self-entitled nimby is against needed schools? Glad to see reason, perseverance, and logic win as opposed to Fear, Uncertainty, & Doubt.
in the year 2020 there will be no nba team in brooklyn and no public school in dumbo.
School has to happen or Two Trees never gets another RFP (125 Court) or variance again, ever. Silly…. Plus Council did some stuff to make sure it happens, they ain’t naive.
The switch may happen
City Council took the bait
School may not be built
Thank goodness that’s over!
The local neighborhood associations did a great job at pissing off important politicians and annoying and alienating the public at large. Someone should write this up as a case study in how NOT to run a neighborhood fight against a developer. The “Save the Bridge” argument was specious. It was the “big lie” kind of propaganda. The important groups such as the National Trust, that should know better, damaged their credibility by swallowing the big lie. Other groups like the BHA who had absolutely no business going there, went there, and helped screw things up even more. A disaster and embarrasment to all the neighborhood groups pretending to stand for something public while in reality fighting old feuds and personal vendetas. It was a sorry chapter best forgotten.
Fortunately politicians such as Tish James stood up for things that actually matter: chidren’s education and affordable housing. She is the big winner in this. Her stock has risen sharply in my eyes.