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March 18, 2010
Review and Comment: Taking Stock at 100
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
by Henrik Krogius
When we saw the headline, we thought the Eagle's cantankerous columnist might be celebrating a birthday — but it turns out it's the Brooklyn Heights Association that's hitting the century mark.
How to adjust comfortably to these changed surroundings is a challenge facing the Heights and its association. The BHA has been reaching both inward and outward with mixed effect. Most positively it has from the outset been a force for the creation of Brooklyn Bridge Park, even though it has resisted pressure for what almost inevitably will have to be a park entrance from Montague Street. Even those who most feared public intrusion will themselves want to enjoy a more convenient access to the park. On the Heights’ northern border, the BHA has had a rather sorry history opposing the residential transformation of DUMBO, and, where it should have welcomed the imaginative proposal for Atlantic Yards farther inland, it has instead been party to the delaying tactics that have not stopped the project but cheated it of some of its unique potential as it moves forward.
NoLandGrab: If by "unique potential" Krogius means "unique potential to further line Bruce Ratner's pockets with public funds," we couldn't agree more. Of course, it's (former) property owners and the taxpayers who've been cheated most.
Posted by eric at March 18, 2010 12:15 PM