Brooklyn Heights Woman Run Down by SUV in Ft. Greene; Another Pierhouse Lawsuit; and More Brooklyn Briefs

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- An unlicensed driver of an SUV swerved onto a sidewalk, killing a Brooklyn Heights woman and seriously injuring her boyfriend and 3 others on Sunday in Fort Greene. [NY Daily News]

- A 23-year-old man is in critical condition after he fell off a train while attempted to subway surf this weekend near the Brooklyn Museum. [Gothamist]

- A Brooklyn gangbanger who was busted twice in 10 days on charges of carrying illegal, loaded guns was set loose on a measly $1,000 bail Sunday. [NY Post]

- A 46-year old woman was found stabbed to death in the basement of an East Flatbush house on Saturday afternoon. [NY Daily News]

- Another lawsuit over Pierhouse height filed against Brooklyn Bridge Park, NYC, Toll Brothers. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- As of November 28, 65 out of 106 units — mostly two- and five-bedrooms apartments — have been sold at Pierhouse. [The Brooklyn Ink]

- Signature Magazine says these are the six best restaurants in Brooklyn. Agree? 

- Bore yourself to sleep by listening to this podcast. [NY Magazine]


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STVN Says Survey Shows Brooklyn's Pierhouse Cuts Into Protected View Plane

Photo: MK Metz

 OFF WITH ITS HEAD: The group Save The View Now (STVN) says a land survey has discovered that a 20-foot section of the penthouse apartment atop the Pierhouse project in Brooklyn Bridge Park juts into a protected view plane, according to the Brooklyn Eagle.

STVN is the group working to protect the scenic view from the Brooklyn Heights Promenade -- a view now partially obscured by the massive hotel/residential project.

The report has been delivered to the Commissioner of the city's Dept. of Buildings.


Advocacy group says survey shows Pierhouse project juts into protected view plane [Brooklyn Eagle]


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Barron Won't Seek Sampson's Seat; NYers Bummed Over de Blasio; and More Brooklyn Briefs

- Brooklyn Assemblyman Charles Barron says he will not seek the state Senate seat left vacant in July after the conviction of former State Senator John Sampson—at least, not this year. [Observer]

- Save The View Now is encouraged that judge is taking the time to go over the oral and written arguments over the height of the Pierhouse in Brooklyn Bridge Park. [Brooklyn Eagle]

- New Yorkers are losing confidence in Mayor de Blasio; they feel that the quality of life in the city has deteriorated on his watch. [NY Daily News]

- String of rapes and robberies linked to online sex ads. [NYT]

- Nine people were shot, one fatally, across Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens over a six-hour span beginning Saturday night. [Daily News]

- Do you know this guy? He was caught on video stealing thousands from a Flatbush apartment. [PIX11]

- Young Brooklyn woman diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, being treated at NY Methodist. Want to help with her bills? [Go Fund Me]


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Brooklyn's Save The View Now "Deeply Disappointed" by Pierhouse Decision

Photo by MK Metz

On Friday, Judge Knipel ruled that developers and Brooklyn Bridge Park didn't violate any laws in allowing the Pierhouse hotel/residential complex to be built taller than previously agreed, obscuring the view of part of the Brooklyn Bridge from the Promenade.

The massive Pierhouse, plopped in Brooklyn Bridge Park, looks too big for the available space -- something even the judge noted. But the thing is still legal, he ruled.

According to the Brooklyn Eagle: While an understanding with the community on height limits may have been reached, those limits were not incorporated into the Modified General Project Plan (MGPP), Knipel wrote.

Knipel also ruled that the plaintiffs waited too long to sue, because the action was subject to a four-month Statute of Limitations.

Plaintiff Save The View Now says: "We are deeply disappointed in the outcome, and strongly disagree with the Judge's findings, most notably that the agreements reached with the community in 2005/2006 are not legally enforceable. What is the purpose of negotiating and reaching agreements with the public if they are not meant to be binding?"

Full story at the Eagle.


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Brooklyn Heights: 'Save the View Now' Town Hall Meeting on Tuesday

Pier House from Squibb Park. MK Metz

The group fighting the "over-sizing" of the Pierhouse development in Brooklyn Bridge Park at Pier 1 (the one that is partially obstructing the views of the Brooklyn Bridge) will be holding a town hall on Tuesday, June 2, at 6:30 PM. The town hall will be held at the Brooklyn Heights Synagogue, second floor,131 Remsen Street, Brooklyn.

Save the View Now (STVN) won a partial Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) agaainst the Pierhouse development. On May 18, state Supreme Court Justice Lawrence Knipel extended the TRO, pending his decision on STVN's lawsuit.

STVN says both sections of the Pierhouse hotel/residential project are taller than originally negotiated with preservationists.

More than 6,000 supporters have signed the Change.org petition started by Steven Guterman. The petition asks the Mayor, the Governor, the park's board and others to: "Return the construction of the Pierhouse to be consistent with the originally approved plan."


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Brooklyn Heights Association Annual Meeting Features NY Magazine Critic, and Will Probably Be Lively

Photo courtesy of Justin Davidson

The Brooklyn Heights Association’s Annual Meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, Feb. 24th at 7 p.m. at Grace Church.

The Brooklyn Eagle reports that the guest speaker this year is Justin Davidson, New York magazine architecture and classical music critic. Davidson, who has looked deeply at gentrification, will speak about “Preservation as an Agent of Radical Change.”

Thirteen/WNET host Tom Stewart will again present the BHA Awards for Community Service.

If past experience is any guide, the meeting will be a lively one, with neighborhood preservationists ... of the Brooklyn Heights Library, Pier 6 park site and Brooklyn Bridge views ... sure to be on hand.

Brooklyn Heights Association Annual Meeting features music & architecture critic Justin Davidson [Brooklyn Eagle]

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Brooklyn Bridge Park CAC Resolves to Halt Construction on Pierhouse, Pier 6

A show of hands during the CAC vote. Photo: MK Metz

At the end of an hours-long and sometimes rowdy meeting of the Brooklyn Bridge Park Community Advisory Council (CAC) Tuesday night in Brooklyn Heights, members of the CAC passed a (non-binding) resolution calling for a halt on construction of two major development projects in the park: Pierhouse (the hotel/condo complex at Pier 1), and the Pier 6 towers, not yet under construction.

For full details of the meeting:

Brooklyn Bridge Park CAC calls for halt on Pierhouse, Pier 6 [Brooklyn Eagle]

Brooklyn Bridge Park CAC Asks for Construction Halt, New Environmental and Financial Studies [Brooklyn Heights Blog]

Battle Over Pierhouse's View-Blocking Height Rages On [Curbed]


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