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Meeting for BBP Housing

By , 20 September, 2010, 1 Comment

Whether you’re worried about housing being plopped in the middle of Brooklyn Bridge Park for revenue or can’t wait to move in, you’ll want to attend the public meeting of the Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation Committee on Alternatives to Housing, this Wednseday 22 September. The Cobble Hill Association will be there advocating against any additional building–the only housing now is One Brooklyn Bridge next to Pier 6, filling up quickly–which they say will take away from recreation in the park.

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This meeting is yet another opportunity for the public to come out and speak out on their desire for a park, a true park… one that does not include private housing within it. The CHA prefers year round recreational facilities such as a pool, ice rink and indoor field house which could offset costs the City cannot burden.

To get all the facts, come on over to the Blue Room at City Hall at 11am (across the bridge on Chambesr St). Can’t make it? The CHA encourages you to call or email comments to the Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation:
tel: (718) 222-9939
brooklynbridgepark@bbpnyc.org

Double D Pool Safe-For Now

By , 14 September, 2010, No Comment

After a protest this June kept the Double D Pool at Douglas and Degraw open for the summer (the city threatened to close it down due to budget cuts), The Brooklyn Paper reports that it is no longer on the budgetary chopping block. Though the numbers at the pool were slightly down this season, Parks Department spokeswoman Meghan Lalor says they have no plans to shut any of the pools down.

You Go Double D

By , 28 June, 2010, No Comment

After a Father’s Day protest to stop the closing of the city-run “Double D” pool at Douglas and Degraw, the Boerum Hill oasis will be opening after all. We’re not sure how they could open Brooklyn Bridge Park with such fanfare, then close a pool that has been so well-loved (and well-used) since the 1970s, but we can all give thanks for its launch tomorrow, 29 June. Now, if anyone knows the schedule, please let us know!

Overflowing Garbage Can Here to Stay

By , 17 May, 2010, 1 Comment

This afternoon, I walked about four blocks with an empty can of Snapple in my hand, waiting to find a trash can to chuck it in. On Atlantic, I was rewarded with an overflowing basket and just barely got it on top of the heap. Turns out, this wasn’t an isolated incident. According to the Brooklyn Paper,

A Sanitation official admitted this week that it ended regular pick-ups of public trash cans along commercial strips last July — instead only picking up the trash when trucks making residential runs happen to drive by.
As a result, pick-ups that occurred as many as times 21 per week — three times a day, every day — are only happening once or twice a week, said Ignazio Terranova, the agency’s citywide community affairs officer.

With budge cuts to blame, the Sanitation is $80,000 in the hole, nobody sees this changing anytime soon.