Brooklyn Bridge Park seeks to move Pier 6 lawsuit from Manhattan to Brooklyn court
Construction of two controversial residential towers on Pier 6 in Brooklyn Bridge Park won’t begin until at least Dec. 1 as a court mulls a request by the park to change the venue of a lawsuit seeking to block the development.
On Thursday, attorneys from the Corporation Counsel of the City of New York, representing BBPC, filed papers to move the case, filed by the Brooklyn Heights Association (BHA), from New York County, Commercial Division, to Kings County.
The case is currently in the court of Justice Lucy Billings in Manhattan. If transferred to Brooklyn, the city will seek to have the case heard by state Supreme Court Justice Lawrence Knipel, who has overseen several prior actions related to the park.