South Williamsburg wants its waterfront back

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]