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March 20, 2006
Community forum on Atlantic Yards Project: Thurs. March 23rd
On Thursday, March 23rd, at 6:30 p.m., Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn invites you to Brooklyn Heights for a community forum on Forest City Ratner’s Atlantic Yards project. The evening’s agenda will feature:
• speakers including Brooklyn historian Francis Morrone & South Brooklyn Legal Services
• up-to-the-minute news on the proposed project, legal action and community concerns
• information on volunteer opportunities
• a community Q&A and discussion session
The meeting will take place at the
First Unitarian Congregational Society
50 Monroe Place (corner of Pierrepont Street) in Brooklyn Heights.
All are welcome.
For mass transit access, please use the following subways:
• 2/3 to Borough Hall or Clark Street
• 4/5 to Borough Hall
• A/C to High Street or Jay Street/Borough Hall
• F to Jay Street/Borough Hall
• M/R to Court Street
• or the #25. 26, 38, 41, 51 or 52 Buses
For more information, please visit www.dddb.net or call (718) 362-4784.
Posted by klowy at 10:26 PM | Comments (0)
March 19, 2006
New Plaza for Downtown Brooklyn?
The Department of Transportation announced that it intends to test a pedestrian plaza in Downtown Brooklyn.
Moving south on Adams Street, the strip will start just past the Brooklyn Marriott on Adams Street and turn east on Willoughby Street ending at Pearl Street.
Read Stephen Witt's article in the Courier-Life.
More on this soon, after the monthly CB2 Traffic, Transportation and Safety Committee Meeting.
Posted by klowy at 10:21 PM | Comments (0)
NY Times Purchase Building Article
Excellent article in this Sunday's New York Times on the Purchase Building. The Brooklyn Bridge Park Development Corporation wants it demolished. It could be used in the park, but they don't want to. The Brooklyn Heights Assoc, The DUMBO Neighborhood Assoc., Friends of Brooklyn Bridge Park, Community Board 2, all want to see the building preserved. The Brooklyn Bridge Conservancy wants to see it demolished. Read the article, decide for yourself.
"This vote was the low point in the history of the landmarks commission," said Andrew S. Dolkart, a professor of historic preservation at Columbia University, adding: "It's disgraceful. I think the commissioners fell down on their duty, which is to preserve landmarks."
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