Our Neighbor - Public Place Brown Lot
A group of graduate students in the urban planning program at New York University’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Service is conducting a survey on the Public Place Brown Lot. This project is part of the Waterfront Capstone course offered at NYU Wagner. If you are a local resident or work in the area, take the survey and let them know what you think should be done with the land.
March 13th, 2006 at 4:52 pm
Put a skatepark in there. In the back or on smith st. There are a lot of kids in the are that would love it. There are also a lot of big kids that would love it too.
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March 13th, 2006 at 11:30 pm
haha 2 of my friends are NYU Wagner students who are working on this…
March 14th, 2006 at 3:08 am
I would like to see a more comprehensive study of just how polluted the Gowanus area really is. This brown area supposedly is next to the other super polluted area that is still leaking a benzene plume toward Smith street ( even as we speak). Can it really even be legal to be developing housing bit by bit on an area that has Love Canal tendencies much less build an organic supermarket…Does the superfund quality of the soil stop at the property line or does it only contaminate older structures and not potential new condos with their super pollution fighting powers?
March 14th, 2006 at 7:03 pm
Benzene plume?!? Eeeeee!
March 14th, 2006 at 10:55 pm
this is making me think that our location - smack dab next to the lot - may not be so good for my health!
March 15th, 2006 at 2:54 am
Especially when the one woman at the CGNA meeting kept bringing up the high rates of cancer in the neighborhood. I couldn’t hear all she had to say because she was on the other side of the room but she sure caught my interest.
March 15th, 2006 at 2:30 pm
You should all read “A Civil Action” right now.
March 15th, 2006 at 8:16 pm
PUT A NICE CLEAN PARK IN THERE! A dog park would be great as well.
March 15th, 2006 at 9:01 pm
The vintage story on Court is going out of business? WTF? I saw them closing up shop last night. I can only imagine another godawful chain taking its place. I live very close to it, so this is highly disturbing to me.
Do NOT put a skatepark in there.