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We screamed SHUT IT DOWN & they heard us! This is a reminder, WHEN WE FIGHT WE WIN! I never had a doubt we would get it SHUT DOWN eventually but this news today came as a wonderful surprise. We want to thank everyone who had a part in this. Everyone who came out to the rallies, hung flyers, reposted on social media, spoke to reporters, signed our petitions, called up or emailed our representatives, etc. YOU 🫵 DID THIS!!! Of course we also want to thank our local elected officials for standing by us & advocating for us @repdangoldman @sen_gounardes, @joannesimonforbrooklyn & @cmshahanahanif. The @nycmayor & the @nyc_dot’s @ydanis_rodriguez for finally shutting this concrete recycling facility down.

However while we’re grateful, happy & appreciative, we are also skeptical because lf this was part of negotiations to turn a No vote on the BMT Final Vision plan to a yes then we strongly oppose that.

The concrete recycling facility should be shut down but not in some quid pro quo to flip a vote on the BMT, but because it’s the right thing to do & should’ve never been put here bordering a residential neighborhood to begin with.

We all recall the EDC’s threats to not only keep the concrete recycling on site but that if there was a NO vote on the BMT Final Vision Plan we would get more toxic uses of the waterfront as a sort of punishment. We all remember well the EDC’s Jennifer Sun’s “this is no idle threat”quote.

So with the BMT vote still looming next week, it’s rational to question whether this surprising announcement is part of a larger deal to proceed with this GPP which the community still vehemently opposes.

To be clear, we’re elated with this announcement but THE COMMUNITY STILL VOTES NO on the EDC’s BMT Final Vision Plan & reject it being used as any kind of bargaining chip in relation to the BMT vote.

THE COMMUNITY VOTES NO & as far as we’re concerned there’s no last minute deal or incentive will change that. The public engagement period is over & therefore any chance for us to weigh in on any new deals or incentives is over & so should the negotiations. Only thing left to do is vote & we say VOTE NOW & VOTE NO!

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Mike Racioppo is the right person for one of the most important jobs: amending the governing document of the world’s greatest city.

He loves this city, understands how it works, and knows how to make it better.

Proud to appoint him to @NYCCouncil’s Charter Revision Commission.

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“My message to the City and the Task Force members is clear, I urge you to approve port improvements now and defer housing decisions for later, through the ULURP process”
- Rep Jerry Nadler, April 3rd, 2025

That’s it right there! That’s all you need to hear. Delivered by the one & only Congressman Jerry Nadler @repjerrynadler who protected these piers for over 30 years! No one knows infrastructure, freight logistics & maritime like he does & these piers & these port operations in particular. He knows their true potential, if they would just give the operators long term leases & the support they needs it will thrive & grow.

It’s just pure arrogance for anyone to think they know better than he does.

Jerry Nadler has been one of Congress’s most vocal and consistent advocates for public infrastructure, particularly focused on mass transit, freight movement, and urban transportation.

As a senior member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, Nadler has worked to secure federal funding for green infrastructure, climate-resilient transit, and urban mobility projects, making him a key figure in national discussions about sustainable infrastructure and freight logistics.

Please show me someone more qualified to speak on this. But, of course, the BMT Task Force leadership & the EDC think they know better. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Who’s advice should we follow?

THE COMMUNITY VOTES NO!!
Vote Now, Vote NO!
Let’s do this right! 🙏

#bmt #bmtredevelopment #brooklynmarineterminal

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Everyone should read this letter from Greg O’Connell Jr. to the Cobble Hill Association @cobblehillbk . I’ve gained respect & lost respect for many people these last few months but I think at the top of my list of people who have truly earned my respect is Greg O’Connell Jr.

When they put together this BMT Task Force I couldn’t believe that someone from the The O’Connell Organization wasn’t included, that should’ve been such an obvious choice, so I asked him & he told me it’s best they did because I would never be able to sell out this community they way others have. I then asked him where he was at with this redevelopment. He was totally honest & said if this redevelopment gets approved I stand to make a lot of money because all my properties values will go up but I’m against it, I don’t care about the money this is bad for our community. That’s amazing. So for putting community before money I have the utmost respect for him.

After the letter I included a small excerpt of a 2012 interview with @brownstoner. I included that so you can see this is nothing new to him, this has been his family’s philosophy & part of the secret of their success for all these years.

The O’Connell Organization is legendary in this area as a community developer. When this area was at its worst Greg O’Connell Sr. never gave up on this area. For a while he was literally building back this area brick by brick by himself. And his son is continuing in that tradition.

Thank you Greg O’Connell & the The Connell Organization! 🫡

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We’re thrilled to announce that the Carroll Gardens Pop-up Library has officially opened on 250 Baltic Street!

Come on by to check it out Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays and on Wednesdays look out for the bookmobile in the neighborhood 📚

A big thank you to @bklynlibrary, @bkcb6, @nycdcas, @ikea, @cobblehillbk, and Friends of Carroll Gardens Library for their collaboration alongside our offices to bring books back the neighborhood 📖

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Very interesting blog post from our friend @laylalawgisiko on her excellent Substack, which everyone should subscribe to.

This isn’t directly about the BMT Redevelopment but relevant because it perfectly describes how the EDC & developers use these bs ultimatums to get their way through false narratives & coercion or as she cleverly calls it “hostage urbanism”. Which she describes as “The “nice city you got here, shame if we let it rot” school of planning.” Exchange the word “city” with “port” & that describes the EDC’s threats at the BMT perfectly.

Layla’s post is also relevant because the developer she’s talking about here is Related Companies who not only is currently lobbying the city over “Red Hook Development” (that’s public record) but has been trying to become the developer at BMT for over a decade.

Also interesting to note is that Related is the developer at Hudson Yards & a 7 minute walk away they’re also the ones spearheading the plan to demolish NYCHA’s Fulton & Chelsea Elliott Houses which is just a short 7 minute walk away. Could that be the ultimate goal here? Get in with the BMT Redevelopment then go for the nearby NYCHA Red Hook Houses & demolish them too?
Only time will tell.

For more on the NYCHA residents fighting to save their homes at the Chelsea & Fulton- Elliott Houses please follow & support my friend Rene Keit at @stopfecdemolition, & @savesection9 to support the whole movement in support of Public Housing public!
✊🏻✊🏽✊🏿

It’s bigger than just the #BMT

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Excellent reporting by @gregmocker for @pix11news. 👏👏

As community leader, long time resident of Red Hook & @voicesofthewaterfront Steering Committee member Maria Nieto says, “This land has a purpose already. We say don’t rezone it. You could build housing at other sites. It can be a port only here. Why have private development for a public infrastructure need,” Period.

Yes, there’s an “Affordable” housing crisis in this city but all these luxury apartments & condos & the fake affordable housing being proposed won’t solve it, in fact it will exasperate the situation & make it worse. It will raise the rents in the entire area as these developments have been shown to do.

However, what’s not talked about is the maritime crisis that all these waterfront developments have caused. The rich love their waterfront views, who wouldn’t, but it’s decimated the maritime & industrial opportunities in this city. This is the LAST WORKING WATERFRONT of its kind in Brooklyn. They can’t have this one! We must preserve this one & shrinking it to half of its size will destroy any future growth potential.

You can’t park ships in East New York, Brownsville, Park Slope, Windsor Terrace, etc. this is where ships go. Housing can be built anywhere.

They’ve done their best to destroy this port over the years & it’s still here with a long term lease & some support it can thrive & serve not only Brooklyn but the whole region.

Infrastructure money should not have to come from private developments. If the Brooklyn Bridge needs repair or maintenance you don’t say we need to build a skyscraper to fix it. Currently the BQE needs repair so are we going to take half of the promenade & build a tower there to pay for it? You see how ridiculous that sounds? But somehow here they’ve convinced people that this makes sense, it doesn’t. And that’s why THE COMMUNITY VOTES NO! 👎

Hopefully next week this silliness will finally be put to an end with a NO vote from the Task Force so we can start a real community led planning process.

But don’t think the community will ever forget those who ignored them & voted against their wishes. Good luck trying to make it up to them.

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We’d like to thank Cole Sinanian of the @brooklynstarweekly for their excellent coverage of our #SaveOurPort Rally & March led by the @hungrymarchband to @sen_gounardes’ office to demand that he votes NO to the BMT Final Visión Plan.

We were originally going to march to the the location of the BMT Task Force member meeting where the voting was taking place but it was postponed, for the third time, because they did not have the votes for it to pass.

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This is affordable housing? This is what they brag about? So we must accept whatever they offer so that these so-called affordable housing units that they say we so desperately need get created? It’s a scam so that developers can get their tax subsidies & their projects approved. It’s a scam so politicians can brag about what a great thing they did, oh look I got you “affordable housing”. Affordable for who? Let’s please stop this charade. It’s bullshit

What we have is an AFFORDABLE HOUSING CRISIS & using subsidies to build apartments for people making a quarter of a million dollars a year won’t solve it! And it’s actually making things worse because for these small percentage of fake affordable apartments we’re subsidizing these luxury apartments, raising the rents in these areas, gentrifying neighborhoods & displacing people!

If this BMT Redevelopment goes through other developers will begin buying up surrounding warehouses, lots, even brownstones & building more luxury apartments, of course with a sprinkle of fake affordable apartments. This whole area will be unrecognizable in 30 years much like Williamsburg, Long Island City, etc..

Placing a building here or there is one thing but creating whole neighborhoods is another altogether. This is not progress. This is planned gentrification & displacement. This is an assault on the working & poor people that have lived & created these vibrant communities when the city turned its back on them years ago.

It’s documented that black & brown people are being forced out of this city in record numbers by these rezonings & developments.

So I have a question for the YIMBYs, if a policy is known to be destructive to people of color, displacing them from their homes & NYC altogether & you still stand for & advocate for that policy does that make you racist? I’m asking for a friend.

Yes we must build more in this city, but what, how & for whom we build is important. If you build 2,000 fake affordable apartments & end up displacing 10,000 in the next decade, is that a positive outcome? That’s what’s happening in this city with these rezonings & planned neighborhoods. 😡

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If this BMT Final Vision Plan passes & they proceed with the GPP we’ll lose total community control & will be the last to know what is going on. That’s not a hypothetical or an opinion, that is happening RIGHT NOW, IN REALTIME, at the Atlantic Yards project.

Here in Norman Oder’s latest blog post he explains how even the most basic of questions aren’t being answered by the MTA & they’re being told to got through the Freedom of Information Act (FOUL) request, isn’t that crazy? No actually that’s standard practice under a GPP. What is crazy however is that some of the very same BMT Task Force members that are trying to push this GPP on us have been & still are fully involved with that project & know all of this. They know how horrible it is yet they’re still are trying to convince us it’ll be ok & make us to accept this here on our waterfront. They also want to paint us as unreasonable for not accepting a clearly bad deal. They should be ashamed of themselves.
This is why we say NO! NO, NO, NO!!!

THE COMMUNITY VOTES NO!!! 👎

They can postpone the vote all they want, they can keep adding sweeteners to the deal but no matter what they add it will not change that a GPP is unacceptable. As we can plainly see from the Atlantic Yards project, under a GPP everything is subject to change & will change & we’ll have no recourse, in fact we won’t even know about it until it’s a done deal. This was a bad process to begin with & a yes will lead to an even worse process afterwards.
So NO thank you!

THE COMMUNITY VOTES NO!
Go back to the drawing board.

Better yet go away please, we’ll deal with the new management after the election in a few months.

Why some of these people trying to force this through at all costs, spending all this political capital & tarnishing their images, reputations & legacies in the process over this is failed project is beyond me. People see this con job for what it is & regaining their trust & good graces after this won’t be easy but a NO vote could go a long way towards that path of redemption. As the old song goes, “Gotta know when to fold them”.

JUST VOTE NO!
Let’s get this one right. 🙏

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Wow! No fireworks for the public! His own private, VIP, invite only viewing party on public land? Amazing.

This administration really thinks this their waterfront to do whatever they please with it. Closing it off, last minute, all those residents that planned on hosting friends, all the businesses that were in preparation, none of those matter. Of course he’ll cover it up by inviting some city employees & giving away a few tickets to the public but come on this is really for his donors. NYC IS FOR SALE to the highest bidder & because his days are numbered there’s a Going Out of Business Sale right not & it seems the BMT is part of that sale.

He’s from Brooklyn he knows what these fireworks mean to this community 🤦🏻‍♂️ . Could it also be punishment because he sees the polls & knows Brooklyn doesn’t support his reelection? Who knows, it’s all speculation but what is a fact is that this city is no longer for everyone, including the fireworks viewing.

If they do build this new neighborhood at BMT will we be allowed in during special events? During times like this would Pier 7 be open to the public or will it be a private party? Only time will tell.

Hey maybe this is part of the presentation. He’ll invite his special guests, which will undoubtedly be his real estate donor buddies. At this point they seem to be the only ones still supporting his reelection campaign. He can host them at this VIP, invite only private party & show them what’s at stake and how amazing our Brooklyn waterfront is. Who wouldn’t want to own this amazing waterfront?
Let the bidding begin.

Let’s hope it never happens.
JUST VOTE NO!
Let’s do this right.

HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!!! 🇺🇸

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This is the result of VOTING NO to bad deals! This is what a true community-led planning process results in. This should be a model for us & all community rezonings. Shoutout to Sandra, Juan, Julie & the rest of the @northwestbronx team, YALL DID IT!!! 👏👏
We can also do something amazing here at BMT but it will also take political will & a community board that works for the people. Can we count on our electeds & @bkcb6? We shall see.
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@northwestbronx: This is a turning point for how development should be done. At the Kingsbridge Armory, we are creating a model for community-owned and governed development for the world to see.
Our agreement with 8th Regiment Partners includes elements never before secured in a City-owned project.
• 125K sq ft for community ownership, dedicated to workforce, entrepreneurship, & worker coop programs, as well as affordable light manufacturing space for Bronx-based businesses displaced from the borough
• 20K sq ft of affordable commercial space reserved for small & local businesses, prioritizing vulnerable businesses along the Kingsbridge corridor
In addition to the required Project Labor Agreement, there is a commitment to neutrality agreements to protect workers
• A Community Council will guide decisions on tenant mix, programming, and community benefits
• A Community Benefit Fund, governed by the Community Council, will support long-term local investments in shared wealth-building and community ownership

• Shared governance in major operational and strategic decisions about the project
• High environmental standards for sustainability and climate resilience
ALSO 8th Regiment Partners will sign a legally binding comprehensive Community Benefits Agreement with a broad coalition of labor, community, faith, and small business stakeholders.
That’s why our work isn’t done. We still have crucial opportunities to influence the project to deliver on our community vision. Join us!!
8 Thur, July 17 | 6PM (
Bronx Borough President Public Hearing on the Armory @ location TBC
• Testify on what additional priorities must be included for the Armory to deliver on our community vision!

й video by @introvertdreamer_

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