From the Daily News:A Brooklyn-based developer hopes to build high-rise apartments on the Bushwick site that was once home to one of the city’s great blue-collar breweries.
But when Read Property presented its plans for the gleaming complex this week, the local community board questioned whether the proposal set aside sufficient space for working families.
The 10 buildings would rise up to eight stories and include 977 rental apartments and ground floor retail space.
Community Board 4 delayed its decision on whether to give the plans the thumbs-up, putting it off until the developer provides more information about the project’s affordable housing component, its impact on local schools and its inclusion of adequate parking.
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Community Board 4 delayed its decision on whether to give the plans the thumbs-up, putting it off until the developer provides more information about the project’s affordable housing component, its impact on local schools and its inclusion of adequate parking.
What is wrong with those people in Brooklyn?
A few dollars for your civic to pay for some mailings and coffee hour for the seniors who want to spend an interesting evening out,
a visit by one of your politicians (along with the editor of the local paper to take plenty of pictures) to show they care for the community's concerns,
a liberal suggestion to the grateful assembled (and their acceptance) that every problem you have is dropped down the bottomless pit of 311,
tiny renderings in the local press of clean walkways, smiling couples, kids on bicycles,with about 5 stories in the picture (with the other 35 stories cut off above the picture)
two or three paragraphs in the press talking about jobs, waterfront, and more jobs and affordable housing (fine print - for those making more than $85,000) and did I say jobs (for union goons from Long Island and Orange County)?
and a community board chair that treats the community like they are extras from the Wizard of Oz
and whoompa! - building accepted as submitted by the developer!
Add the ribbon cutting attended by a gaggle of politicians lavishly thrown on the front page of the weeklies (text in a news story in Queens would only upset the locals anyway)
and you are home free my friend.
THATS the way they do it in Queens.
Short.
Sweet.
Simple.
Just the way the untroubled locals like it!
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