The letter's draft is below and was approved near unanimously. Btw, we need everyone's help in the coming months and years to make this vision happen. We're on the path.
October 23, 2013METROPOLITAN TRANSIT AUTHORITYMARKETING AND CORPORATE COMMUNICATIONS347 MADISON AVENUE, NEW YORK, NY 10017-3739 – 5TH FLOORRE: TRANSIT AUTHORITY EMPLOYEE PARKING (OCEAN
AVENUE & FLATBUSH AVENUE, BROOKLYN)TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERNCOMMUNITY BOARD 9, BROOKLYN, AS A RESULT OF NUMEROUS COMPLAINTS RECEIVED REGARDING THE “ILLEGALLY” OCCUPIED TRANSIT AUTHORITY EMPLOYEE PARKING LOT LOCATED ON THE VACANT LAND OWNED BY THE CITY OF NY, (DCAS) AT THE INTERSECTION OF FLATBUSH AVENUE AND OCEAN AVENUE, ADJACENT TO THE PROSPECT PARK Q-TRAIN SUBWAY STATION, THAT SERVES OUR DISTRICT; IS WRITING THIS LETTER TO REQUEST THAT THE TRANSIT AUTHORITY EMPLOYEES DISCONTINUE PARKING ON THIS PROPERTY TO FACILITATE THE BEAUTIFICATION OF THIS HISTORIC GATEWAY TO FLATBUSH, BY NYC DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION’S PUBLIC PLAZA PROGRAM.THIS SITE IS IN PLAIN VIEW OF THE SOUTHEAST ENTRANCE TO BOTH PROSPECT PARK, AND THE BROOKLYN BOTANICAL GARDENS, AND BOTH INSTITUTIONS WOULD GREATLY BENEFIT FROM THE REMOVAL OF THIS INCONSIDERATE EYESORE, OF A CHAIN LINK FENCE WITH RAZOR RIBBON.
PLEASE NOTIFY THE COMMUNITY BOARD, AS TO WHEN THE COMMUNITY CAN GAIN ACCESS TO THE SITE, SO THAT INSTALLATION OF THE PEDESTRIAN PUBLIC PLAZA BY NYC DOT CAN COMMENCE.
WE LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH THE MTA, IN PLANNING FOR FUTURE UPGRADES TO THE FLATBUSH AVENUE, Q SUBWAY STATION WHICH WOULD BE SERVED BY THE PROPOSED PUBLIC PLAZA.RABBI JACOB Z. GOLDSTEIN, CHAIRPERSONCOMMUNITY BOARD 9 – BROOKLYNXC: BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN, NYC DEPARTMENT OF PARKS, PROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE, PROSPECT LEFFERTS GARDEN NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION, NYC DOT, COUNCILPERSON EUGENE, COUNCILPERSON JAMES, ASSEMBLYMAN ADAMS, BORO PRESIDENT MARTY MARKOWITZ, MAYOR MICHAEL BLOOMBERG
6 comments:
Amazing. So, if I am reading this correctly, MTA just commandeered the space and started using it as a parking lot? They do not own the lot? I've also never understood why the MTA employees who park there don't park within the painted lines - they seem to envision their own special floating spots without referring to the designated spaces.
Yeah that's the gist. When I started looking into the trees my first question was...who owns this thing? DOT has up to a certain point and they were able to tell MTA to stop parking under the trees (remember how annoying that was?)
Then it turns out that the whole area there is owned by the City, and was once a gas station or some such that leased from NYC. Then when it died, MTA started parking there and the rest is a story of nobody giving a #$%@.
I like the old school metal trees, would be cool just to fix and restore them. No need to update the look, imo.
That was my original plan...until I realized there was no money for restoration to be found, the Trees were never "approved" in 1979 in the first place, and any attempt to get the City to deal with it would lead down a rabbit hole.
There IS money for art projects though, and that led us to accept Eppley's proposal. The idea is that every two years or so an artist could use the trees as part of their sculptural idea until they're finally dealt with by the creation of a whole plaza.
Ahab had Moby, the Q has...
I would like this same headline to apply to the folks who somehow think it's completely okay to double park their cars on Flatbush Avenue. It's more or less a great way to kill someone, especially at night.
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