tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27072046.post7259428739745944268..comments2008-01-31T07:04:41.645-05:00rsguskindhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07850061562215316734noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27072046.post-69575680688834908092008-01-31T01:55:00.000-05:002008-01-31T01:55:00.000-05:00Yeah as a Gowanus/Carroll Gardens (Bond St) resident..the downzoning vs. upzoning is a situation that is very hard for me to swallow...the upzoning really shouldn't happen because we are sitting on brownfields down here..although i know it is my choice to stay, my building was built in the late 1800's, my problem with the upzoning is that they will be digging into toxic land and god only knows what will be released into the air..the developers on 3rd & Bond skirt the issue constantly on their blog on brownstoner, all they care about is whether Whole Foods will open to make themselves more marketable, which i find hard to believe, that means more traffic past their houses..who wants that?! <BR/><BR/>I am also on the side of the moratorium as what is wrong with protesting out of context building in a victorian era neighorhood? Williamsberg, Greenpoint, most of Queens (and i grew up in Flushing which is, if you read Queens Crap all true and UNBELIEVABLE! Talk aaout bad Feng Shui! and much of Manhattan are ALL models of what shouldn't happen here..as a life long NYC resident I just get so depressed..to see all the things i grew up with disapeering, I get off the subway half the time and dont know where I am, surrounded by identical cold glass and steel...Bloomberg will go down in history as the man who sucked out NYC's soul and core..uh..did my comment have anything to do with this?sorry if i digressed, its all connected and C.G is lucky enough to be spared up until now and like I said lucky to have models to see what they dont want to turn into.Lisanne McThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03249500003559750141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27072046.post-54154885374873185162008-01-30T23:25:00.000-05:002008-01-30T23:25:00.000-05:00I hope C.G can successfully avoid the landscape of as-yet-vacant luxury high rise condos in Wburg.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27072046.post-35406216383175148242008-01-30T14:17:00.000-05:002008-01-30T14:17:00.000-05:00What about the part of the story where the Carroll Garden's down zone is being "balanced" with an upzoning on land that sits along the side of the Gowanus?<BR/><BR/>What a game we see unfolding here!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com