Last Tuesday we lost a pillar in our North Brooklyn community, Luis Garden Acosta, the legendary founder of “El Puente” in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, a pioneering youth development organization that defies any simple description. Luis was an environmental leader, a community activist, an organizer, an educator and a beloved friend. Here is a quote from Luis’ […]
The tanks take up 1.4 acres of proposed open space as well as block pure access and key sight lines to the East River and Bushwick Inlet waterfront. Not only did the community fight tooth and nail to save the CitiStorage site, but it also spent 9 years warding off a massive power plant planned […]
Smithsonian January 10, 2018 By Emily Matchar Municipalities and military bases are using the bivalve to defend against flooding and damage from climate change-driven storms About the benefits of oyster restoration. FBIP very pleased to be doing our part in Bushwick Inlet. Thanks as always to our friends at Billion Oyster Project, NY Harbor School, […]
As many of you have seen, a group by the name of Maker Park is holding a “Design Display” meeting on Tuesday evening. “Maker Park” is a proposal to supplant the Bushwick Inlet Park masterplan with a new plan that would retain the tanks and buildings at the Bayside Fuel Oil site, repurposing these relics […]
Waterfront Alliance December 2, 2016 On November 22, the Brooklyn waterfront communities of Williamsburg and Greenpoint erupted in cheers at the City’s announcement of a deal to acquire 11 acres known as the CitiStorage site. This stretch of waterfront land, purchased for $160 million after lengthy negotiations with the owner, will allow Bushwick Inlet Park […]
Today on Behalf of the City of New York FBIP Has Submitted Their Generous & Fair Offer of $100 Million Dollars to Norm Brodsky through Cushman & Wakefield’s Brokered Auction! Also Cushman’s Marketing Brochure for the Property Contained Errors & Omissions, So We Created & Submitted an Updated One! Dear Friends of Bushwick Inlet Park, […]
FBIP’s Kim Fraser Interviewed by Michael G. Haskins on WBAI – Start at 1:39 [audio_playr src_mp3=”http://nuarchive.wbai.org/mp3/wbai_160715_060005moshowfri.mp3″] wbai.org
Friends of Bushwick Inlet Park and the Open Space Alliance for North Brooklyn have taken a close look at the recent heavy industrial real estate market in Brooklyn and Queens to see how the City’s $100,000,000 offer for the CitiStorage property stacks up. The analysis below reveals that the City’s offer is close to the […]
Adam D. Perlmutter Open Space Alliance for North Brooklyn June 18, 2016 There has been a lot of discussion both here and elsewhere about the “value” of the CitiStorage property. Most think that Brodsky should be happy with realizing an almost 2100% return and take the City’s offer. A few think that he should get […]
Press Release from Friends of Bushwick Inlet Park June 9, 2016 Download A recent press report noted that the “leading” estimate of the value of the CitiStorage property is $77-92 million dollars. The City just offered the owner Norman Brosdky $100,000,000 to turn it into parkland. Brodsky has not publicly indicated that he will accept […]