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March 15, 2007
Brooklyn Bridge Park padding
MetroNY
By Patrick Arden
There's an article in today's Metro about one of our sister development controversies, the Brooklyn Bridge Park plan.
The big-picture question: Why does Brooklyn Bridge Park have to be self-sufficient when Bruce Ratner's private Atlantic Yards project gets billions of dollars in subsidies?
Brooklyn Bridge Park more costly than necessary?
It looks like the maintenance budget has been padded:
BROOKLYN. The $15.2 million maintenance and operations budget for the planned Brooklyn Bridge Park calls for a workforce running between 53 and 94 to look after 62 acres. Speed is apparently not a requirement for a job.
Snow removal that needs hand shoveling instead of a plow, for instance, will take up to 9,198 hours, or enough work to employ 4.4 people full-time and year-round. Checking sprinklers will require another 5,208 hours, or enough for 2.5 full-time employees working year-round and making $45.07 an hour. Rodent and pest control will need 8,286 hours and alone could account for 4 full-time dedicated workers.
The extended article, only available in the print edition, reveals information on what the two projects have in common (hint: Bruce Ratner is Pataki's Columbia Law School chum):
Posted by lumi at March 15, 2007 7:40 AM