All stories about "Bushwick Inlet Park"

The big Williamsburg power plant proposal is dead, right? Well, it's dead, but only kinda' sorta' because the Dracula of Brooklyn Proposals has yet to get the definitive stake shoved through its heart. In other words, there are always appeals that can be filed. One process was started today, but what's riveting is the wording in the press release from TransGas, which reads a little bit like what would have happened if an angry guy from the Communist Party USA had run a PR writing workshop for corporate execs in 1985. The release uses phrases like "zeal to appease" former Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff," "suicide mission to sacrifice" the future, charges of pandering to "well-heeled, largely white" gentrifiers and more. In that sense, it is one of the most superb press releases from a business on a dry topic we have seen in years.

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There was much progress in Williamsburg last night on two major waterfront plans, that for the big Bushwick Inlet Park and for the Greenpoint-Williamsburg portion of the Brooklyn Greenway. Community Board 1 voted in favor of the Greenway in a room that was packed to capacity. Meanwhile, the rendering shows "Phase 1" of the big new city park immediately to the north of East River State Park, which is now a huge parking lot. The surprise is that work on the the athletic field will start in the fall and that the field will be open next summer. Work on "Phase IB," which will be a maintenance building / Comfort Station / Community Space with a playground will start next summer and finish in Summer 2010. There will also be "wetlands" later on.

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The big proposed TransGas Power Plant on the Williamsburg/Greenpoint waterfront is finally dead. For real. The power plant, which managed to cling to life for several years after it was supposedly "stopped" by community objections was definitively laid to rest today by an obscure state agency called the Siting Board. The plant, most of which would have underground, would have gone on land south of the Bushwick Inlet that the city wants to turn into a big park. It would have been north of East River State Park, The Edge and Northside Piers condos. Joe Lentol, an Assemblyman who led the fight against the plant issued a statement saying he was "thrilled" at the decision and that building the plant would have been "a travesty and a betrayal." The city still faces a long process putting together all of the land for the park. The utility owns the eight acres that would form part of the park and the same Assemblyman has suggested taking it via eminent domain.
· Will End of Gas Pains Clear Way for Big New Burg Park? [Curbed]
· Brooklyn Waterfront Still Has (Trans)Gas [Curbed]

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The jostling to get a replacement space for big concerts that have been held at McCarren Pool, and possibly garner a few hipster votes in the process, has started. Daily Intel reports that a member of Community Board 1 who's also running to replace City Councilman David Yassky is interested in snagging some waterfront property. The city is trying to put together 28 acres for a waterfront park that would stretch from the existing East River State Park to north of the Bushwick Inlet, but there are a boatload of issues ranging from legal to environtmental. The the future of concerts has been a sore point with some supporters of the big pool remake. Thies sent a proposal to the Parks Department and says there is "a lot the city can easily acquire and clear in eighteen months," meaning concerts in the summer of 2009 before the municipal election.
· New Outdoor Concert Space Could Replace McCarren Pool [Daily Intel]
· McCarren Pool Plans: Where Will the Concerts Go? [Curbed]
· Redone McCarren Pool Fully Revealed [Curbed]

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