A Greenpoint group is already planning future real estate development around Newtown Creek despite the waterway’s recent Superfund designation. According to the Brooklyn Paper, the Greenpoint Waterfront Association for Parks and Planning is angling to turn the ground floor of an industrial warehouse overlooking the polluted creek into a public boathouse with an esplanade, training center and storage. Boat access to Newtown Creek is currently blocked. The plan for the Greenpoint Manufacutring and Design Center will have to compete with several others angling to grab a piece of the Newtown Creek pollution settlement between the city and the state. Community Board 1 member Dewey Thompson, who submitted the proposal, said he envisions it coming to fruition within four years. [Brooklyn Paper]
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A Greenpoint group is already planning future real estate development around Newtown Creek despite the waterway’s recent Superfund designation. According to the Brooklyn Paper, the Greenpoint Waterfront Association for Parks and Planning is angling to turn the ground floor of an industrial warehouse overlooking the polluted creek into a public boathouse with an esplanade, training center and storage. Boat access to Newtown Creek is currently blocked. The plan for the Greenpoint Manufacutring and Design Center will have to compete with several others angling to grab a piece of the Newtown Creek pollution settlement between the city and the state. Community Board 1 member Dewey Thompson, who submitted the proposal, said he envisions it coming to fruition within four years. [Brooklyn Paper]
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The Department of Transportation’s 700-foot-long parking lot and storage facility in South Williamsburg has some of the best Manhattan skyline views around, and much to Community Board 1’s dismay, the city doesn’t want to give up that valuable waterfront real estate. Last week, Community Board 1 voted to ask the city to turn over the land on — Kent Avenue between South Sixth Street and Broadway — to the parks department. The site actually used to be a park many years ago, and the community wants it back, thanks in part to the proposed 2,200-unit Domino Sugar factory development nearby that would reduce the per capital open space in the neighborhood. “The Department of Transportation has a carpentry shop there. There’s no reason why it has to be on such pristine land,” said Community Board 1 Parks Committee member Dewey Thompson. [Brooklyn Paper]
