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By Kevin Duggan
Brooklyn Paper
This park’s name is history!
The city must rename Willoughby
Square Park to “Abolitionist
Place Park,” according
to a local civic panel.
Community Board 2 passed
a resolution to ask officials to rename
the decades-in-the-works
green space in a landslide vote
of the full board on Oct. 7, in a
symbolic nod to the neighborhood’s
19th century anti-slavery
history, said one historian.
“It’s a tangible manifestation
of a community’s respect
and caring and honoring that
history at that location,” said
Harlem Historical Society head
Jacob Morris, a longtime advocate
for memorializing the area’s
abolitionist past. “The community
absolutely cares that the
history of abolitionism located
in that area of Brooklyn is important.”
Renaming city parks require
approval by City Council
, however, a spokeswoman
for local councilman Stephen
Levin (D—Downtown Brooklyn)
did not respond to a request
for comment whether he would
champion the issue.
The city offered to build
the park — now expected to
open in September 2020 —
Community Board 2 voted to rename Willoughby Square “Abolitionist Place
Park” at an Oct. 7 full board meeting.
as a concession in the wake of
a 2004 rezoning that spurred
rapid development throughout
the Downtown area, but construction
of the greenspace was
stalled multiple times — most
recently in a legal battle between
the city and a former developer
for the project.
The Economic Development
Corporation — a quasi-public,
pro-development city agency
— originally planned to build
the park with a high-tech subterranean
garage for $80 million,
but cut ties with the developer
and scrapped the parking
lot, choosing instead to fund
the green space themselves at
the more modest price of $15
million in January.
The developer — American
Development Group — retaliated
in May with a lawsuit
against the city for improperly
dropping them from the
project.
The agency is currently zeroing
in on a short list of design
proposals for a permanent abolitionist
themed installation
from artists — who are almost
all either African-American or
of African descent, according
to the community board’s district
manager Robert Perris.
The development agency
will provide a $794,000 budget
for the artwork, according
to an emailed statement
by Christian Ficara, a spokesman
for the development corporation.
The community board’s
push to honor the anti-slavery
legacy is reminiscent of another
recent episode involving a site
with ties to abolitionist.
As part of the 2004 Downtown
rezoning, the city tried
to raze the former 227 Duffield
St. home of abolitionists
Thomas and Harriet Truesdell,
which may have served escaped
slaves as a stop along the Underground
Railroad, but local
advocates rallied and forced
the city to back off its demolition
scheme in 2007 — leading
to then-mayor Michael
Bloomberg to set aside $2 million
for a commemoration project
with exhibitions, walking
tours, and a memorial.
The Bloomberg Administration
earmarked the funds,
including $388,000 for expenses
and $1.6 million of
capital money, Ficara said.
Of the $1.6 million, the
city funneled $818,000 to
exhibitions and projects related
to that theme at Weeksville
Heritage Center, and the
Brooklyn Historical Society
since then and the remaining
$794,000 will fund the physical
installation, according to
the spokesman.
That year, the city also conamed
the two-block stretch
of Duffield Street between
Willoughby and Fulton streets
“Abolitionist Place.”
But the building is back under
threat from the wrecking
ball, after its owners reportedly
filed demolition permits
in June, according to Brownstoner
.
The agency did not return
multiple requests for comment
on the park renaming
proposal.
By Rose Adams
Brooklyn Paper
Usually it’s the Gowanus Canal
that turns people green.
Environmental officials
planted a harmless green dye
in the Gowanus Canal on Thursday
to test nearby sewer lines,
turning the putrid canal into
a neon emerald shade that
alarmed some passersby.
“This is wild,” said Janell
Baptista, who posted a video
of the glowing Gowanus from
the Carroll Street Bridge on his
Twitter account on Thursday
afternoon. “Just worried for the
people around this area who
live here!”
Edward Timber, a spokesman
for the Department of Environmental
Protection, claimed
that the dye was harmless, and
that it would dissipate naturally.
By Friday, the canal had turned
a more subtle shade of turquoise,
and locals familiar with the notoriously
contaminated Superfund
site remained unfazed by
the odd hue.
“I wouldn’t have noticed,”
said Sarah King, a Bedford-
Stuyvesant resident who works
near the canal. “I think I only
notice if it smells worse.”
Other residents said that
the filthy canal dons different
shades of green that change with
the seasons, like foliage.
“In the summer, it’s sort of
a lime green,” said Sarah Kovacs,
a Gowanus resident of
10 years.
“It looks clearer,” she said.
Another Brooklyn resident
also praised the canal’s new
color, but noted that it was far
from natural-looking.
“It’s kinda pretty,” siad
Danny Walton. “But lots of
pretty things are terrible.”
The DEP poured a harmless green dye into sewers
that funnel into the Gowanus Canal by the Carroll
Street Bridge on Thursday.
Janell Baptista
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