Trouble at both ends of Brooklyn Bridge Park
Separate groups fight Pier 6 towers, try to save Brooklyn Bridge view
Two different advocacy groups are fighting two separate developments in Brooklyn Bridge Park – one at the southern end at Pier 6, and one further north near Pier 1.
Despite the fact that the issues appear to be similar, opponents plan to go their own separate ways in battling developments in the park.
Save the View Now, headed by Brooklyn Heights resident Steven Guterman, seeks to trim the height of the Pierhouse hotel and condo project going up near Pier 1. Pierhouse partially blocks the view of the Brooklyn Bridge from the Heights Promenade, contrary to an agreement advocates say was ironed out years ago.
At the park’s southern end, the Save Pier 6 advocacy group, headed by fellow Heights resident Lori Schomp, is seeking to put a stop to plans to build two high rise residential towers near Pier 6.