It’s located on Court Street and in downtown, which historically contained many theaters.
#One up on wall street barnes and noble movie#
Oh come on, the movie theater is NOT overdevelopment. Sorry that this turned into a diatribe against the BHA, but I am beginning to wonder just what good this organization does for the neighborhood and the planning of the Brooklyn Bridge Park! Can’t they use their efforts to get that area to look a bit better? They concentrate all of their cleaning efforts on Montague Street and yet the Clark Street subway Station and the three blocks of Henry Street from Clark to Cranberry are the dirtiest areas in all of the Heights. They have some philosophical problem with the new (and very good) restaurants in the North Heights because they have determined that Brooklyn Heights people like to leave the neighborhood to go out to eat – sez who? Forget the Baby Gap that the BHA wants – where are our bakeries? They encourage “clean” tenants on Montague Street and so now we have banks and real estate stores that make the area a dull ghost town in the evenings. Years ago, they supported the building of the Barnes and Noble and movie complex on Court Street and opposed the building which houses Garden of Eden on Montague Street – which do you think is more detrimental for the neighborhood?) Look to Battery Park City and its esplanade and you will see that visitors are not really made to feel welcome.Īlthough a member of the Brooklyn Heights Association, I am beginning to see that they seem to do things that are not necessarily good for the area (i.e. A park is a public place and the presence of these housing units will give the people who live in them a sense of entitlement that they alone should be allowed to use the park. It does seem WRONG for there to be condos in the park. Why does the BBPark have to be self-sustaining? Can you imagine the howls of protest that would be heard if such a thing were planned for a Manhattan Park? While the BBPark languishes on the drawing board, the entire shoreline around Manhattan will be taxpayer-funded revitalized and rebuilt and Brooklyn Bridge Park will still be in the planning stages. Tell them you want a real park not landscaping and highrises for the wealthy. Call Yasky, DeBlasio, Joan Milman and Regina Myer. That is a fiction made dangerous by the Brooklyn Heights Association that promulgated it. The deal was NOT to make BBPark a totally self-sustaining park.
Shame on anyone, including this new park president, Regina Myer, who believe that we must sell our public park lands to the highest real estate bidder.
Get rid of the condos, restore the recreation long needed, and get back to seeing this as an asset for all Brooklynites and not just an asset for real estate moguls (and the politicians that do their bidding). Can’t he figure out that it is the mere presence of condos inside of parks is the problem? And this is a guy who wants to be comptroller? Let him ferret out what city deals are legit or not? Yikes. Yasky still believes that the height of the condo buildings (it looks like we are up to 7 new buildings folks) is the problem. Why? For their support of condos inside this public park. Elected officials who spoke, David Yasky and Bill DeBlasio, were hissed at, as was the evening’s hostess, Marianna Koval. It is apparent to all that the recreation and cultural venues originally planned for the park are gone because the people who will live inside the park do not want the intending noise and activity a real park generates. Did anyone attend last night’s pathetic meeting sponsored by the BBP Conservancy? The vast majority of community members in attendance were clear in their desire to see a real park along the shore and not the luxury condo development it has become.