OPINION: Another viewpoint on Brooklyn Bridge Park
The continuing fight over the luxury residential buildings planned for Brooklyn Bridge Park—the latest installment of which will be the two towers planned for the Pier 6 area, as covered in an article in this paper yesterday—is sort of missing the point.
Among the contentious items, as Brooklyn Eagle reporter Mary Frost has pointed out, are the number of affordable units (a term that can mean different things to different people) and the height of the buildings.
These are all very important considerations. After all, if you were living in a small-scale, low-rise area for many years, you wouldn’t want to be suddenly overwhelmed by a bunch of high-rises more suited to Battery Park City.
But this is beside the point. One of the problems, as I see it, is the original plan that specified that Brooklyn Bridge Park must be self-sustaining, or pay for itself.