Brooklyn Marine Terminal plan must thrown out to preserve a working waterfront

We like to build more accommodation in New York, but the City Economic Development Corp. Towally pushing a plan to put houses on the site of the only working container on this side of the Hudson river. The Brooklyn Marine Terminal, 122 acres and seven pillars that extends from Atlantic Ave. South in Red Hook in front of Governors Island, should be used for sea and non -residential purposes.

The EDC decision must be reversed.

We believe that the accommodation is critical and that new houses and apartments should be erected in all corners of each district, but there are almost 200,000 acres in the city and the small ribbon of BMT lands on the Brooklyn shore should be revitalized for maritime trade, not plowed.

We can build the accommodation most everywhere, but there is only one place for a work port.

Under the EDC program, which was closely approved by a special committee of 28 members on Monday, the future BMT would be reduced to less than half of its current area. The BMT was abandoned by the port authority for decades and last year was exchanged on the control of the Town Hall in exchange for Howland Hook’s Marine Terminal on Staten Island.

The BMT should not be missed to a shop wearing, too small to be effective, while most of its goods are lost forever as work quays. The city wants to stimulate the use of the blue road to move the goods by water. BMT reduction realizes the opposite.

The Dopey Edc redevelopment project needed a two -thirds vote of the 28 members. The vote was set for April 11, then EDC canceled this vote because it would have failed.

Then, the vote was set for June 18, then EDC canceled this vote because it would have failed.

Then, the vote was set for June 27, then EDC canceled this vote because it would have failed.

Then, the vote was set for July 17, then EDC canceled this vote because it would have failed.

Then, the vote was set for July 24, then EDC canceled this vote because it would have failed.

Monday, during test no. 6 (who obtained six attempts?), He crossed a single vote, 17-8, with three absent. The three missing ones were the Charles Fall assembly of Staten Island, who properly passed the whole procedure because the Brooklyn part of his district includes only a barge with four people.

American senses are not either

In opposition, members of the Assembly and the Municipal Council and a former City Commissioner of the Ministry of Transport, who all know better. Representative Jerry Nadler did not have a vote, but he has the good vision of the seafront. He has been right for years the need for a seafront that works. It should be respected.

If the surveys are correct, it is likely that the EDC managed by the mayor will have different leadership on January 1 and that the new leadership must remove this BMT disorder and preserve and maintain the seafront that works and not destroy it forever.