BBPark advisor denies cronyism charges over divisive ‘Fieldhouse’
A former member of the Brooklyn Bridge Park Community Advisory Council insists that she did not exploit her position to steer a controversial $40-million cycling racetrack to the waterfront development, but some of the council’s roughly two dozen members are considering tweaking the group’s by-laws.
Critics charge that the velodrome project — a 200-meter banked indoor track which supporters call by a more generic moniker, New York City Fieldhouse — is a stadium for a marginal sport masquerading as a community recreation center. They fear its bulk will overwhelm Brooklyn Bridge Park and cause traffic problems on nearby Brooklyn Heights streets.
“Painting stripes on a horse doesn’t make it a zebra,” Peter Flemming, co-chair of the Brooklyn Bridge Park Community Council told the Brooklyn Eagle last week.