With CB2’s withdrawal, questions about role of Brooklyn Bridge Park advisory council
Community Board 2’s decision to pull its representative from Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Community Advisory Council (CAC) has caused a stir and raised questions about the role of the community forum.
The CAC is the primary forum through which the community can provide feedback and comments to the Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation (BBPC), which operates the 85-acre park on the Brooklyn Heights and DUMBO waterfront.
Chairwoman Shirley McRae withdrew CB2’s appointee, Adam Lastowecky, saying that the CAC has become “adversarial” to BBPC.
“I do not mean to suggest that the council should be a sycophantic rubber stamp for the development corporation. There is certainly the possibility for a difference of opinion,” McRae wrote in her Feb. 24 letter to BBPC President Regina Myer. “However, when the two entities are continually of such disparate perspective and opinion, it creates a dysfunctional dynamic that I no longer want the community board to be a party to.”