Red Hook Piers Smackdown Update

Wednesday, October 18, 2006, by Robert

Red Hook blog B61 Productions is offering up all the details on the latest skirmish over competing plans to develop a 1.1-mile stretch of the Red Hook waterfront from Atlantic Ave. to Wolcott St., that's currently home to a container port among other things. The Economic Development Corp. held a public meeting on plans like the one to throw up 350 units of housing in buildings up to seven stories tall on the west side of Columbia Street. A competing vision is the Brooklyn Greenway Initiative, which means more open space. The company running the container port, which would be forced out, is aligned with the Greenway backers who say open space would be "mincemeat" with housing. Proposals also include "maritime-theme" stuff, retail, hotel and convention space, cruise terminals, art galleries and light industry. Which covers almost everything, except for the college campus and luxury condos.
· Housing a contentious point for city's pier plan [B61 Productions]
· Red Hook Piers: Here Comes Another Fight [Curbed]
· Big Changes for South Brooklyn Waterfront [Brooklyn Record]

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Comments (5 extant)

EDC are straight up motherfucking CROOKS-- you can quote me.

So tell us, where ARE those jobs from the cruise ships?

Where? Where? Where? Where?

And how many jobs at American Stevedore were LOST, and how many more threatened?

This one's straight in the balls of Dan Doctoroff, fuck you jocksniffer-- see you in LONDON 2012, shitheel.

xxoo,

Laura

By Laura Riding at October 18, 2006 3:15 PM

The infamous Laura! I knew you were a red hooker.... You go girl- Viva American Stevedoring! Viva the Greenway!

Housing for Red Hook! And none for Columbia Street!

Fight the good fight!

By tj at October 18, 2006 3:34 PM

Any real Red Hooker would know that American Stevedore is a crook, Mafia-run outfit that has fewer than 100 employees on a 88 acre site without one inch of public access. Farmland in Iowa generates more jobs per acre.

Not to mention the futility of what they do - ship cocoa to Brooklyn only to put in on flatbed trucks and truck it to NJ through the crowded streets of NYC. That's just bad planning. Why not just ship it to Bayonne and spare the residents of Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan exposure to diesel exhaust.

Good riddance!

By Anonymous at October 19, 2006 10:31 AM

#3: then let's get another company to run the Red Hook port- we need it!

By thfs at October 19, 2006 11:49 AM

I know this is months later, but Laura is right on and "Anonymous" must have eaten some sour grapes. Manufacturing and shipping in Brooklyn used to generate thousands of jobs, but that wasn't good enough for the powers that be. They wanted a piece. Residential development is the engine that fires the top corrupt pols. Cocoa unloaded in Brooklyn used to be roasted and ground in Brooklyn, until the courts rulled against Gillie's, saying that their coffee roasting was air pollution! Hello housing, goodbye jobs!

By gs at February 25, 2007 1:00 PM