Brooklyn Bridge Park honchos recently modified a request for proposal to develop a three-story Furman Street building within the meadow, changing the lead agency from the state-run Empire State Development Corporation to the Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation, and notified the judge presiding over the Pier 6 towers' case in this letter sent on Nov. 17 — a move that critics of the high-rises claim compromises the park's argument that it had sole authority over the Pier 6 development.
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Brooklyn Bridge Park attorney's Nov. 17 letter to court
Brooklyn Bridge Park honchos recently modified a request for proposal to develop a three-story Furman Street building within the meadow, changing the lead agency from the state-run Empire State Development Corporation to the Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation, and notified the judge presiding over the Pier 6 towers' case in this letter sent on Nov. 17 — a move that critics of the high-rises claim compromises the park's argument that it had sole authority over the Pier 6 development.
Brooklyn Bridge Park honchos recently modified a request for proposal to develop a three-story Furman Street building within the meadow, changing the lead agency from the state-run Empire State Development Corporation to the Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation, and notified the judge presiding over the Pier 6 towers' case in this letter sent on Nov. 17 — a move that critics of the high-rises claim compromises the park's argument that it had sole authority over the Pier 6 development.
SIVE, PAGET 3 RIESEL P.C.
David Paget
Direct Dial: (646) 378-7244
dpaget@sprlaw.com
November 17, 2017
Hon. Carmen Victoria St.
New York State Supreme Court
80 Centre Street
Room 308
New York, NY 10013
Re: Brooklyn Heights Ass'n v. Brooklyn Bridge Park Corp. et al., Index No. 155641/2016
Dear Justice St. George:
We write to provide an update conceming an issue raised by counsel for Petitioner Brooklyn
Heights Association (“BHA”) for the first time at oral argument on November 15, 2017, relating to
the request for proposals (“RFP”) for the renovation and lease of the upper floors of 334 Furman
Street. As noted by BHA, that RFP had identified Empire State Development Corporation (“ESD”)
as the lead agency for the 334 Furman Street project’s environmental review.
That description was in error, as the sole agency with discretionary authority over the 334
Furman Street project, the Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation (“BBP”), not ESD, is the lead agen
for that project’s em
ynmental review. This correction was memorialized in a notice that is being
provided to all parties who responded to or attended the information session for the 334 Furman
Street REP. A copy of that notice is attached hereto.
Sees .
David Paget
Sel Aecagas
jusan E, Amron
Counsel for the Brooklyn
Bridge Park Corporation
ce: Richard Leland
Counsel for the Interested Party Respondents
Richard Ziegler
Counsel for Petitioner
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