While Ikea squares off with preservationists on Beard Street, the dispute over 160 Imlay Street about whether or not to let the old waterfront building go condo continues apace. In a NYPost op-ed, a writer argues that Judge Yvonne Lewis should let residential development there move ahead, in part because it will serve as a lure for a cruise-ship terminal:
The building is now standing unprotected and open to the elements while its developers lose millions of dollars and workers lose hundreds of construction and service jobs. Yet the project, a paragon of good planning principles, is exactly what the waterfront needs. It destroys nothing, displaces no one and rehabilitates a historic building.Pity the poor developers? Neighborhood blogger Redhooky is skeptical: "Take the piece with a grain of salt?the Manhattan Institute is a conservative think tank, with a pretty clear neo-liberal/'free market' agenda." (N.B. Judge Lewis is slated to rule on 160 Imlay by January 17.)
· Red Hook's Red Light [NYPost]
· Imlay Street in the New York Post [Redhooky]
· Red Hook Development on Hold for Next 12 Seconds [Curbed]