City Council committee approves Brooklyn Heights Library /condo proposal
Levin sweetens the pot in library sale
After almost three years of polarizing debate and unruly public meetings, the plan to sell and develop the Brooklyn Heights Library site was passed by the City Council Land Use Committee on Thursday.
The 17 to 2 vote (with one abstention and one medical absence) came after Councilmember Stephen Levin announced that he had wrung a number of concessions from the developer, the city and Brooklyn Public Library (BPL).
Many of Levin’s colleagues on the City Council hailed the agreement, calling it a better deal for the public than the original proposal, but several disappointed library advocates in the crowd gave the thumbs down sign to Levin or cried “sell-out.”