{"id":6595,"date":"2011-07-20T09:07:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T14:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=6595"},"modified":"2011-07-20T09:07:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T14:07:00","slug":"plan_first_ask_questions_about_how_to_pay_for_it_later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2011\/07\/plan_first_ask_questions_about_how_to_pay_for_it_later.html","title":{"rendered":"Plan First, Ask Questions About How To Pay For It Later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynpaper.com\/stories\/34\/29\/wb_inletdelays_2011_07_22_bk.html\">I&#8217;m surprised they even got this far<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A build Williamsburg&#8217;s largest waterfront park has stalled &#8212; perhaps permanently &#8212; because the city doesn&#8217;t have the cash to buy the land.<\/p>\n<p>City officials dropped a bombshell on community leaders last Thursday, revealing that they had no money and no timetable to buy several private properties off Kent Avenue and N. 11th Street surrounding the 28-acre Bushwick Inlet site.<\/p>\n<p>Infuriated community leaders accused Mayor Bloomberg of revoking the city&#8217;s long-standing agreement to build parks at the edge of the East River in exchange for rezoning most of the waterfront for luxury high-rises in 2005.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe they should have just called it a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2011\/06\/dont_worry_mom_this_tattoo_is_just_a_pilot_project.html\">&#8220;pilot project&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Location Scout: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/brooklyn\/williamsburg\/bushwickinletpark\/index.htm\">Bushwick Inlet Park<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/brooklyn\/williamsburg\/citistorage\/index.htm\">Citistorage Records Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m surprised they even got this far: A build Williamsburg&#8217;s largest waterfront park has stalled &#8212; perhaps permanently &#8212; because the city doesn&#8217;t have the cash to buy the land. City officials dropped a bombshell on community leaders last Thursday, revealing that they had no money and no timetable to buy several private properties off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn","category-well_what_did_you_expect"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6596,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6595\/revisions\/6596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}