City Reverses Stance on CitiStorage Site After Community Pressure
(DNAINFO) Gwynn Hogan | December 31, 2015 — The city has agreed not put housing on the former CitiStorage facility on the North Brooklyn waterfront following months of community outcry.
A spokeswoman for Mayor Bill de Blasio’s office confirmed Thursday that the administration has heard the criticisms of a plan to rezone the 11-acre property, which then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg promised would become Bushwick Inlet Park when the area was rezoned in 2005.
The city’s change of heart was first reported by Crain’s New York.
“The administration would never accept a rezoning here that did not have the support of the Councilman and community,” said Monica Klein, a spokeswoman for Mayor Bill de Blasio.