Post Is Shocked, Simply Shocked — Maybe Even Outraged — By Planning Costs Literally Soaring Into The Millions

The Post notes that a full 14 and-a-half comfort stations* could have been built for what has already been spent on the as-yet-unbuilt Brooklyn Bridge Park:

Planners of the long-delayed Brooklyn Bridge Park project have spent more than $16 million in taxpayer money in the last five years — more than it cost to build the bridge in the 1880s.

Most of the cash went to the project’s architect and consultants, records obtained by The Post reveal.

Despite that, critics point out, the 85-acre park along the Brooklyn waterfront, which was supposed to break ground three years ago, has yet to be built.

“It cost $15 million to build the Brooklyn Bridge, so [the Brooklyn Bridge Park Development Corp.] has already spent more with little to show for it,” said Cobble Hill activist Roy Sloane.

*See for example.