by Avery 
Ok, here we are. This is your last shot. I’m not playin’. Either are the developers who will soon turn Greenpoint into a Disneyfied vision of Brooklyn. The last of the public meetings will take place Thursday, December 5th, 2013 and this is your last chance to do something.
UPDATE Location: 250 Broadway Committee Room 16th Floor CITY HALL
Time for Commercial Street meeting: 9:30 am
Time for Greenpoint Landing meeting: 1:00 pm
If you can’t…
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I can’t find the sample letter on the savegreenpoint website, could you post or send a link?
thanks
working on it.
https://song-online.tumblr.com/post/68890268444/nyc-council-contacts-sample-letter
you guys are lazy rent controll users who dont want to work and want everythinbg for free and let the landlord keep care of you. and you guys still dont appriciate it. scumbags go get jobs and buy your own house
john, you sound like a poor misguided real state broker that just got his toy broken… rotting with envy, are you?
Um, aren’t there more like 50,000,000 gallons of oil under Greenpoint? Not the 50,000 that is stated in the interview? That’s 50 million, not 50 thousand.
I think Kim means under the immediate area, the one that will be build on. The oil-spill area extends to the Kosciuszko Bridge and beyond. You should talk to Mitch Waxman, an expert on the Newtown Creek. He leads fascinating tours.
Mike, you are referencing the Greenpoint oil spill. The 58,000 gallons of petroleum is what we know that is buried along the waterfront from Commercial St down to Green St. The big oil spill happened by McGolrick park. But yeah, if you combined all the oil in Greenpoint, we could probably set the ground on fire and it would burn for weeks.
Don’t give developers any ideas…
R train or 2, 3.
Very easy to get to this City Council hearing, in lower Manhattan!
250 Broadway is a block from the R , 2 and 3 trains and not far from E, 4 and 5 trains. (Just google City Council 250 Broadway)
Between Murray and Park Place, and facing the city hall park’s southern end.
What better way to spend the morning and mid-day!! VERY important!
Is that 250 broadway in manhattan?
The sample letters are saved as a PDF- Can we get a copyable text version up on the GoogleDoc?
I am sorry. That is all I have.
I e-mailed Colin this link, which includes a downloadable, editable document: https://song-online.tumblr.com/post/68890268444/nyc-council-contacts-sample-letter
Greenpoint could be so much better. Sky, River, chill hood.