by Emma Davey Brooklyn Community Board 1 is backing the controversial Monitor Point project, a proposed housing development that also entails new green space and a permanent home for the Greenpoint Monitor Museum.
NY1reports that the board voted 24-9 in favor of the project. However, that support is not unconditional, as they’re calling for “a 50% local preference for affordable housing, an increase in cars for the G train and doubling the funding for Bushwick Inlet…
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The way Affordable is designated… talk about “rigged”! Like gerrymandering, it’s possible to sweep in the areas with highest rents, and average them. It works out that a one bedroom could be considered Affordable at say, 2700. Is that a good rent?
If you go look at “affordable” housing available it is often one bedrooms for over 3K
I do not trust this development will be any different
What is particularly funny is that Lincoln Restler is against this development because he feels it will raise rents in the area, but he all for BID (Business Improvement District) Northside which will definitely raise rents on businesses and residential buildings in the Northside area. What a hypocrite !
This is one decision that will haunt us forever. It will destroy much in our neighborhood.
Does affordable mean its a housing project for welfare recipients?
I’m all for “affordable” housing – whatever that may mean – but why on the waterfront? Weren’t we promised by the Bloomberg administration in 2005 that the waterfront would provide much needed park space? There are SO MANY vacant lots in Greenpoint (like on the other side of McGuiness). Why not build there and keep the waterfront for the Monitor Museum and the promised inlet park? THAT would be a win-win for the neighborhood (although it would reduce the financial windfall for the developers.) WE DO NOT NEED MORE LUXURY TOWERS! WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR OUR PARKLAND FOR OVER 20 YEARS! Affordable housing – TRULY affordable housing – YES! The Inlet Park – YES! The Monitor Museum in that park – YES! THAT’S what a WIN FOR THE NEIGHBORHOOD LOOKS LIKE!
The Northside BID (Business Improvement District) will definitely raise taxes and subsequently rents on every building in Northside — residential and commercial. It is plainly structured in such a manner, although they bury the lede.
The money will not go to local businesses — it will go to parks.
Every aspect of the BID is inflationary.
You can calculate your tax hike here:
https://www.improvenorthsidebk.org/assessment-calculator
https://gothamist.com/news/domino-sugar-refinery-sold-to-two-trees-for-185-million-affordable-housing-still-a-question-mark