What does gourmet ice cream and shovels have in common? Nothing really. But throw in some sand and a couple of key photo-ops with politicians and you’d be at a party thrown by none other than our new neighbor, Greenpoint Landing.
For those of you unfamiliar with the mega development Greenpoint Landing and how our former Borough President and current City Councilman Steve Levin sold Greenpoint up a polluted river two years ago for a…
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I bet they failed to mention the illegal removal of the 5 75 yr old london plane trees in the Newtown Barge park next to their win-win money grab. what a disgrace. the developers happily paid the city’s 417,000 fine. @greenpointers- please get on this story.
Thanks jg, I’m all over it. There’s certainly a story to be told about those trees. The massacring of mature trees by GPL (which was fully sanctioned by the Parks Dept) rightfully deserves its own article. Stay tuned for something about that in the coming days.
The Parks Dept. NEVER sanctioned it before it happened, developers hired private tree removal services and had it done without permission. The Parks Dept. backpedaled and released some BS press release saying the trees were damaged by sandy and they were at 80% life span and they needed to be removed after they were already cut down.
These motherfucking nasty creatures hopefully will get a 50 year long diarrhea.
Greenpoint Landing and 77 Commercial Street developments were not included in the original transportation study that allowed for this to happen. Chptr 17 FEIS
With the affordable housing Greenpoint’s person to open space ratio is expected to decline by -12.9%. Chptr 23 FEIS (affordable housing is good, this is not)
The sidewalks are too small for the giant piles of bagged garbage which will probably have to picked up by trucks 3 times a week or more. Sad city kid knowledge
The combined sewer overflow calculations did not account for increased rainfalls (so no to that diarrhea request) FEIS Appendix K
I’m not surprised we weren’t invited to this fĂŞte. Councilman Levin made practically zero effort to get people to the 2013 Public Hearings. Was he even present at any of them apart from his own dog and pony show?
A week or so ago, on the subway some crazy was shouting over and over, ‘suck my big black dick and tell the kids to stay in school’. It kinda made me think of George Klein. Omg, or is that what I’ve become? Tell me dear, I must be told.
Maybe in the grand gallaxy scheme of things, it’s all well and good.
Our bike lanes are fading!! And there is some cyan colored goo in an OER lot, by Transmitter Park.
Here are the questions that need to be asked,
If no complete Bushwick inlet park then why are developers allowed to build? After all, that was the Bloomberg deal: parkland & affordable housing in exchange for density. Bloomberg you look like a used car salesman with all your fake promises. We need to focus on a down zoning.
Where do all these people go in the next flood? Aviation High School evacuation center will not fit this new 20k plus additional people. All these towers are in flood zone A, which was a mandatory evacuation for Sandy.
Should GPL get tax breaks for the towers since there are no affordable units in them?
Why can’t they build the school in the towers and give us the school land for park?
Truth is crime is getting much worse in North Greenpoint, subway is more crowded and finding parking is now an achievement, yet our councilman wants to reduce transportation options, limiting for hire vehicle licenses, instead of increase them?!
still no park progress on commercial street although practically all other ground has now been broken. garbage is everywhere. sometimes my son and i have to walk in the street to avoid 1133 manhattan ‘s giant pile. i complain to 311 and Dept of Sanitation but nothing changes. now even when theres no garbage, there is a giant puddle of garbage juice, dog poop and dog poop bags.
Nice long pile of dirt. Greenpoint’s grave?