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August 12, 2009
Hills & Gardens
Boerum Hill Leader Talks Issues
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
by Trudy Whitman
The second installment of a two-part interview with new Boerum Hill Association president Howard Kolins.
Regarding backyards, Kolins insists that it is unfair to classify the Boerum Hill Association’s opposition to the Atlantic Yards project and the expansion of the Brooklyn House of Detention as knee-jerk NIMBY responses: “The Boerum Hill Association as a group is not against development, but it is pro intelligent development and development with context, and I think that’s our biggest beef with Atlantic Yards. The process has had no meaningful community input.”
The BHA recognizes, he continues, “that development needs to happen and that it’s an economic driver . . . but, as conceived, Atlantic Yards is a real plague to our neighborhood and other neighborhoods.” As such, the BHA president concludes, “We continue to lend our name and join with other surrounding community groups to try to bring a more Brooklyn sensibility to this project, and that has been frustrating.”
Posted by eric at August 12, 2009 3:08 PM