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February 19, 2006
The Battle of the beer
Daily News:
"It's been known for quite some time that Hindy is desperate to be part of Ratner's hoped-for Brooklyn: bland high-rises, national-chain box stores and a paucity of small Brooklyn businesses…" Turner writes. "Hindy's support of Ratner's Atlantic Yards project is so misguided, opportunistic, cruel and pathetic. Every Ratnerville ever built in America ignores small businesses, local flavor and the cool eccentricities of regional traditions."
And just in case your heartstrings are pulled by Hindy's business "being priced out of Williamsburg," you might be interested to know that he publicly supported the Williamsburg/Greenpoint rezoning that helped skyrocket the real estate prices in the area.
Some residents have fought new industrial plants and new residential towers. But Steve Hindy, owner of the Brooklyn Brewery on North 11th Street and a member of Community Board 1, said allowing towers was necessary. "There's a pretty large number of people in the community that are opposed to anything above five or six stories," he said. "But 30 years of saying no to housing proposals on the waterfront is what brought us the proposal for a garbage transfer station, which we were very lucky to defeat, and it's what brought us the proposal for the power plant, which we hope to defeat. So I hope people realize that they've got to say yes to something here."
Posted by amy at February 19, 2006 11:44 AM