NY World
April 7, 2014

City officials are negotiating with Motiva Enterprises, a partnership of Shell Oil and Saudi Refining, for the purchase of several plots of land on the East River straddling Williamsburg and Greenpoint, for which the administration is prepared to spend up to $5.5 million.

The parcels are some of the missing pieces of Bushwick Inlet Park, a 28-acre green swath in a 2005 Bloomberg administration redevelopment plan that sought to transform largely industrial areas of northwest Brooklyn into primarily residential neighborhoods…

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