Report from the Dock Street Rally
From the Brooklyn Daily Eagle:
CB 2 to Vote Wed. at Borough Hall
Compiled by Linda Collins
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
DUMBO — An estimated 75 people joined a rally in the bitter cold Sunday, protesting the development by Two Trees Management Co. of an 18-story building protesters believe is “too tall” and “too close” to the Brooklyn Bridge and would permanently block views of the bridge and from the bridge.
The proposed Dock Street DUMBO development — which also contains a public middle school, affordable units, a parking garage and green elements — comes before Community Board 2’s full board, Wednesday, Jan. 14, at 6 p.m. at Brooklyn Borough Hall. (CB 2’s Land Use Committee voted against the project in late December.)
The DUMBO Neighborhood Association (DNA), which is spearheading the opposition along with the Fulton Ferry Landing, Vinegar Hill and Brooklyn Heights associations, has said they don’t oppose a building on the site, which is the right of developers Jed and David Walentas, principals of Two Trees, but do oppose one so tall.