New Documents Reveal SCA Lied About Dock Street Project
From DumboNYC.com:
New FOIL Docs from SCA Reveal its Own Architect Didn’t Give Dock St. School a Passing Grade in 2007
Council Member David Yassky revealed in FOIL documents back in March 2009 that the School Construction Authority (SCA) may have said one thing about building a middle school in Dumbo but internally discussing their preference for the Dock St Dumbo site for a new middle school. Over the weekend, DumboNYC received a new round of documents from the office of David Yassky that there are further FOIL documents that support the evidence that the SCA coordinated with Two Trees to propose a middle school in the controversial development on Dock Street in Dumbo. Although the zoning change has already been approved, Mr. Yassky is showing further support that “what is also now clear, thanks to this astounding email, is that the developer of the Dock Street property was spewing false propaganda—is there any other kind?—about the proposed school’s amenities, which fall far short of SCA’s standards for public schools.” See David Yassky’s full statement below. On page 6-7 is an email from Bruce Barrett, SCA’s own architect who concluded that “the propsal would yield an extremely small school (compromised from our standards), with premium costs due to mixed-use with the high rise residential building. Additional costs for impact of Green design and other aspects of the shared use may arise during design.” The FOIL Documents can be downloaded here (1.4mb PDF).