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I expected to see an in-dept 1 survey of t~e cultural diversity and r i c h ne s s o f t he ex s i s i t i n9 ~· · nm u n i t y . 1 H I ex pe c ted t o see a 1i s t i r·. : o f the v e r y i mp r e s s i v e and v a 1ua b 1e con t r i b utions the local artist co::r··unity (many of whom are well known and well respected) has made to N.Y . C. the cultural capitol of the world. The particular qualities of locJtion, space, affordabi lity and the supportive nature of the neighborhood itself has facilitated the creation and production of a vast array of books, articles, concerts, recordings, plays, ~ rades, museum exhibitions and dance performances, many of which· were presented here as well. Instead, I found that the only mention of art in the D.E.I.S. is archeology: that is, the artifacts of dead artists! I expected to find a demdgraphic breakdown which would illustrate and document the extraordinary range of cultural diversity of the people who live and work in this community which has created a wonderful, healthy working mix of race, nationality, occupation, age &life style that is so· emb 1ema t i c of what used to make t h i s c i t y g rea t • · But, instead I found that the only mention of human community.existen~e· in the D.E.I.S. is history: that is, the life style of the dead and .gone!. I suppose this fsn•t surprising in a.worfd that is paving every .•surface.·~· . destroying the ozone layer, poisoning it's people and rendering extinc~ ... one species every minute in it's gluttonous drive for profit and power. · . \ Nor is it surprising in a country. that spends more money perf-ecting the.:.·· technology of death than on h~aling, housing, food, education and culture·. combined. · ... And it certainly isn't surprssang in·a city that would build a· hotel on to~ of a public park, that would press for the building of a development. that would double the carbon mpnoxide hot spots in an area that is already a dangerously .polluted area, that keeps building office towers which. are · doomed to remain empty while tens 6f thousands of people actually live in the st~eets, that subsidises rich cor~orations while it seizes the hard earned property of small businessmen. A "CITY FAMOUS FOR CORUPTION! We are on a dead end track. What is missing from the D.E.l .s. is morality. values a sense of priori ties which respec.t the 1 ives and dignity of·· · human beings. There has got to come .a time .in this world, in this country, IN THIS CITY when things begin to change •. The "time is now •. The· situation. is Metrotech. Sometime someone has got to be brave enough to say·THIS IS WRONG! THIS IS WRONG! It is up ·to everyone of us to reexamine ou~ priorities ar:-d· demand a change for human dignity, communal sanity and c u 1t u r a 1 s u rv i v a 1· ~ . · The Indians who were the origional relocatees of this.. site had a philosophy which has unfortunately become extinct with them : that every decision a person or ·society ma~es should take into account the well ·being· of the ne.xt seven gene rat 1 ons.• Let u.s pledge to ·build a prt~-;ent, a 1 iving hist~ry, that. w~ wi 11 be proud to bequeath to those who fc,l l·ow. Thank yo~. I [ �UrfiCE OF THE CHt.~RMAN DONNA HENES 351 JAY STREET BROOKLYN, NY 11201 MAR 1 S ~V; ~87 March 13, 1987 Ms. Sylvia Deutsch, Chairperson Dept. of City Planning 2 Lafayette St. New York, NY 10007 . Dear Ms. ·Deutsch: I am writing to you as a long-time resident and business person as well as a concerned taxpayer. The Metrotech project projected for downtown Brooklyn may be the most ill conceived and destructive white elephant yet to be foisted upon the tax payers of NYC. \ The city plans to use the laws of eminent domain to condemn and take the homes, businesses and properties of 250 residential tenants, and 101 businesses employing 1,068 • workers in a ten square block area. These businesses and individuals would then be forced to relocate in a time when there is an intensely severe housing shortage and in a climate where the vast majority of all relocated businesses -fail. An entire integrated and energetic community would be forcibly destroyed. And, all of this wholesale ruin at the expense of the public is intended for the economic gain of the priv.ate developer and other large and rich corporations; specifically SIAC and BUG. · The rationale for the project is that it would bring jobs to Brooklyn. The project is not really creating new jobs: both firms are moving people alre?.¢lY employed from one part of NYC, and in case of BUG, one part of Brooklyn, to another. There is a glut of unrented office space in NYC. Empty offices do not provide jobs. Until we spend our public monies on education, our citizens will not qualify for jobs in any case. And, because offices are cheaper to build than residential housing, the city continues its investment in the real estate business by financing more and more office buildings. The morality of building empty buildings while tens of thousands of people are living in the streets is abominable. With priorities like this no wonder NYC has so easily sunk to shame and scandal. .. •·.... .. �Ms. Sylvia Deutsch March 13, 1987 Page 2 .Perhaps the worst ramification of this project would be on the environment. Downtown Brooklyn already contains the second greatest number of carbon monoxide hot spots in the country. The federal governmen·t has issued NYC a mandate to clean its air by 1987. Yet, Koch has been in Washington lobbying to extend the time limit for mitigation so that NYC can build more poisonous projects. The combined impact of the Morgan Stanley Building, Renaissance Plaza, ATURA, and Metrotech would increase the air pollution approximately five fold! But, the city builds on. . · Until NYC changes its· priorities and begins to develop with people in mind we will continue to lose busineses to other places in the country, where people can work and raise families in houses they can afford and there is air they can· breath. Sincerely, ·-·------):70'-n~~ ~ . \ DH:dk DONNA HENES I President, 351 Jay St. Association; Steering . Committee, STAND (Stand Together for Affirmative Neighborhood Development)- �DONNA HENES 351 JAY STREET BROOKLYN, NY 11201 718-875-2764 March 20, 1987 Mayor Edward I. Koch Office of the Mayor City Hall New York, NY 10007 Dear Mayor Koch: . I am writing to you as a long-time resident and business person as well as a concerned taxpayer. The MetrotectLproject projected for downtown Brooklyn may be the most ill conceived and destructive white elephane yet to be foisted ~on the t~payers of NYC. The city plans to use the laws of eminent domain to condemn and take the homes, businesses and properties of 250 residential tenants, and 101 businesses employing 1,068 workers in a ten square block area. These businesses and •· individuals would then be forced to relocate in a time when there is an intensely severe housing shortage and in a climate where the vast majority of all relocated businesses fail. An entire integrated and energetic community would be forcibly-destroyed. And, all of this wholesale ruin at the .. expense of the public is in_tended for the economic gain of the ·private developer and other large and rich corporations, specifically SIAC and BUG. ·. The rationale for the project is that it would bring jobs to Brooklyn. The project is not really creating new jobs: both firms are moving people ~lready employed from one ·part of NYC, and in case of BUG,. one pa~t of Brooklyn, to another. There is a glut of unrented office space,in NYC. Empty offices do not provide jobs. Until we spend our public monies on education, our citizens will not qualify·for jobs in any case. And, because offices are cheaper to build than residential housing, the city continues its investment in the real estate business by financing more and more office· buildings. The morality of building empty buildings while· tens of thousands of people are living in the streets is abominable. With priorities like this no wonder NYC has so easily sunk to shame and .scandal. · , :/\, . : ! .. C1 .. (l ~ �_.:.:;_::-.- ·:.: -~== :4:.·==------=-..:::-..--..__ -=-=--===- :-..--- . . ~----=-- .· . . . ·- ------ ~~---=.:.:. ...;_-·:--..·...:_.-: --·- .:.:._:-_:.::._· ~~==-=-:-:..;.:-:-= Mayor Edward I. Koch March 20, 1987 Page 2 '• :" :· ·. :· . :"':· ·:..-.. : .... · Perhaps the worst ramification of this project would be on the environment. Do~town Brooklyn already contains ~he se~ond greatest number of carbon monoxide hot spots in the courit.ry .·.(;:The federal government has issued NYC a mandate to clean its air by 1987. Yet,you have been in Washington lobbying to ex·~end ·the· time :..:l:imit- . . for ·mit:icj"ation·;so ·that NYC cari" ··ou.t--"l·d -=-more .pdisoiious ..projects. · .. The combined impact of the-:.Mo~gan .-·stari1~J-Buii-d_ing, ~Renaiss·ance P~az~-, ATURA, -and .. ~troti~h CW(SU1.7d· \:i="ricr·ease~!=-tnEF~aTr~ ~pol'l uf?ion=-: -iipil'ro~im'c:ftely five fold!.: 2. :.Sli-t:.:,::-: th"e· =c.rty:- builds on. tini5i_l= :wiC ~Hang~ i't:-s· pr:i:orities.. ::arid·:o·e<jl:~s· -to -dev·e1op wTtn· ··p-eople- i-ri· inina= -we-=w£11 co.ritiriue· to ··lose :busines·ses..· to other·places in· the country, where people can work and raise. families in houses·they can-afford and there is air that the? can breath. -~· . ...-....· - : .:. : : . .·. . · :: ·=· . :. ~ : • ........... ,.... ... . -.....,·•. ~__•.:. ............ . . ..;. . .· _..:: .. . .--·· .·:.. .:.. .. .·•···· •. .·- . . ;. ..... ~~-·-·- :.:.~ ·.::_ .;.-·.::.·.: ~.;.~~-.:: .: . ~c.:.:. :'-.·· ~:· .:: ::· :.::·.:"='·~·:·.- ·;.~: ; ·~:: ·:···-iri·nc-erely··--···· · ···· · · · .: :. ....... . :!:::-=:._:~· ·:.~:~":.::-:.:-~:... -.· :::.:::·-.:~::-:···. ·\ 1.:-.~ .... -:-·.·· :::. ;.~:::~/i·~~}-~~~~~·;:·~~1-A- ~-----~-.;A~ ~ - DONNA HENES President, 351 Jay Street \ ~Association; _.:. :··· .·.; ·. ~ •.• .· -:'.: Steering Co~ttee, STAND (Stand Together for · · ~firmative Neighborhood Development) , . .... ~.. . .. ...... DH:dk .. •: . .. . . . - -.!! ':, ...... :. :. :::. .. . ,.. ..... .·.. - ., ' ..... '. : ·~:.: .. ·. .. - .- ·.. t: .: . :· . . ) ·-: .. ..... • - .... ·- --. -·· ·-- ··--·· ______ _,.. -· .. · ~ �I Rene R. Leogrande /i: PO BOX 1429 Terry Stanley Brooklyn Coordinator Public Development Corooration 161 William Street · New York, NY 10038 Brooklyn, New York March 7,1987 I I am an artist and resident of 74 Myrtle Avenue. I have lived in this neighborhood for the past 6 years in a loft that provides me with the special space and location that I need to produce my own artwork as well as providing various freelance services in the graphic arts. I am also a full time buyer of Commercial Printed Graphics for Drexel Burnhan Lambert, a Wall Street Investment Banking firm. am strongly opposed to the proposed Metro Tech Plan. I support the following points that have been raised by several individuals in our neighborhood at the past few months of public meetings that I myself have attended. ,I 1. It is our opinion that the Planning Dept. of the City of NY should provide a published study ~f .the area with regargs to the residents to the Board Of Estimates. Actual figures wi•l indicate and substantiate that the proposed relocation plan cannot adequately or seriously meet the proposed relocation timetable. · .. 2. There is a need to question and develop new HUD Guidelines for·. relocation. 3. Artist live/work space issues must be addressed in the EIS~ 4. Community involvement and inclusion in this"public access" project pa~ been duly ignored~ 5. The ULURP process being used in thi~ propo~al is being used as a tool for development. This misuse is discriminatory and denies our due process of law.· 6. The serious issue of housing and the homeless mandated by Mayor Koch has not been addressed in this "public" development. This issue is being duly ignored. 1. Actual job growth projections in this proposed project are loosely based on economic factors that are currently being addressed as risky and short-sighted. Metro Tech's failure ~ to attract High-Tech tenants to this project before the time. schedule due .as Phase I raises the issue fo Back Office Space. This back Office Space issue is now being described as Back office Glut. The movement of buisnesses out of the NY Metropolitan area is a direct result of the high cost of housing. (as addressed last week in the NY Times on Mon. Mar.2) This substantiates the need to address the exact issues of the residents in the community. �8. The MetroTech/ Forest City Developer is proposing to destroy a culturally diversified neighboorhood and the lives of this community's artistsr which is one of New York City's Natural Resourses as defined by the NY Cultural Affairs Dept. 9. The issues surrounding almost every aspect of this plan are numerous. The environmental issues of traffic congestion and air pollution standards have been ignored. These issues are now being raised by the.surrounding communities and promise to be important political community· .issues. I urge you to please consider our rights as a neighborhood and individuals as welL as myself as a responsible tax paying citizen. Sincerely, ~/(· / Rene R. Leoqr • \ / �,,' James.B. Holland PO Box 1429 Brooklyn, NY March ... 7, 19 87 11201 Anne Weisbrod Metro Tech Project Director Public Development Corpo·ration 161 William Street New York, NY 10038 Dear Ms. Weisbrod, I have been a resident· of 74 Myrtle Ave. tor the past 6 ~ years. I am strongly opposed to the proposed Metrotech Develooment project because it wiil force-upan the res·J.ae·nt·s-ana b~isness community adverse chan~es, causin~ the loss o£ ho~es and jobs. This neiQhborhood has been rebuilt throuah the hard work and financiai committment of thousands of·doilars from the tenants and buisnesses ucaradina their lofts and buildinas. The onlv property that is rundown due to ne9'lect. is th~t of the City.. of . New York. ·- · f. ~lhave heard about this proposed p~~j~ct since. the early ·1980's, when I first arrived, and our neiqhborhood has souaht to be a part of this development process·- from the. early plarutin~ stages, but has been ignored. · .. ' . ~. The relocation Plans are not adeauate nor believable since . the proposed relocation properties do ··not yet exist or put us on a 11· Priority List status. This priority status me·ans nothinq ·· · ·:~...· since several·hundre~ people may b~ on the same priority list for the exact same locations. We have inauired and met with · nearby community centers and have been told of· several deveio:oment :. cases that have forced people out of existin~ locations, promised · tl Priority Status but.have been not actually placed into ·the .. promised _proposed sites due to inadequate planning and constrUction problems. ...,..,.. ..... . . . ...... . ......... . The issues surroundin~ almost every aspect of this plan are numerous. The environmental issues/of traffic conaestion and air polution standards have been ignored. These issues are now beina ·raised.by the surroundin9 communities and ~romise to be im~ortant political community issues. The issues of the artists are important to me as my wife is an artist. We have specific needs for space in order to further her career "and our livelihood. i I : r i r I ! II I .I This project must not .be railroaded throu~h politically : without seriously considerinc;:r the alternatives. The city must not sell-!. on her most precious resourses- hard workin~, responsible, tax-oavina citizens citizens - to careless ·.developers , looking to enrich ·a· · private institution's financial portfolio. · . · I urge y~u to contact our neig~orhood's or~anization on this matter and await your remarks and position on this matter. Our orqanization can be contacted at; STAND 351 Jay St., Brooklyn, NY 11201. . !' . �" ~arcia I 11 I I I Garibaldi ~~TROTECH r.~arch DEIS Testimony 198 7 Table "A" is intended to provide a listing of the.types of businesses presently existing in.the ~ETROTECH area. A comparison with the ~ETROTECH DEIS will reveal several categories not previously me~tioned including High Tech, Art and Arts-Related. An explanation of the categories follows the summary below. i I EXI~TING BU~INE~SE~ IN THE II of Type of Business Retail r:'1anufac turing Printing ; II I R~staurants l II Businesses 23 10 5 & Bars 10 20 Service Daycare Government Arts and Art-Related High ~ch l SITE PROPO~ED 1 5 25 • 2 ! II TOTAL 101 , j II I . I j I D1 I • l Examples of . \ ~orne Categories: . Retail -Art, hardware, food, automotive supply etc. ~ervice -Hair ~alons, repair services, wholesalers, carwashes etc.· Printing - Lithography, copying, book binding Nanufacturing - garment making, ironwork~ etc. High Tech - Specialized instrumentation, computer technology . Arts and Art-Re~ated - rehearsal/recording studios, dance studios, carpentry shops, some artists studios .·-~ ------·-··· _.,_ .. ____ ·-·-- ... �. i ... .: - . 1\"arcia --~ \ Garib~ldi Additional ~~TROTECH DEI~ , r-~ ~.'. L- .- ... '• ... Testimony Warch 1987 Beginning in ~eptember of 1986 I conducted a survey of the 10block ~ETROTECH ~ite with the intention of getting an accurate count of residents, businesses and workers. I compiled a questionaire that covered·such general areas as name, address, phone number etc. and specific ones for residents , and businesses such as the number of residential units and number of workers. Responses were primarily- gathered in person or · through phone conversations. ~~ ~hirteen years residence in this neighborhood also proved an invaluable tool to acquiring informatior.. inquiries revealed gre~ter numbers of people and businesses than noted in the DEI~ by rtcKeown & Franz. I was able. to identify atleast 101 legitimate businesses in the proposed site while only 65 were listed in the DEI~. (see Table "A'•) Certain job categories such as High Tech and Arts are completely ignored • Some manufacturing concerns are omitted and many workforces •. are under-reported-hence only 754 of the 106.7 workers. are accounted· for. ~~ The r-~cKeown & Franz census-tak~r.s appeared to have not gone above ground f~oor level when doing on-site tabulations. For example rf:ullens• Furnature ·is shown to have only :five employees. They d·o ~ have five salesmen on the main floor but probably five times ·that number work upstairs ,in accounting and shipping! . :·~· In general there appears to have been anJincrease in privatesector businesses and employment since the 1980 census. The. opposite· conclusion could be drawn from the figures provided by the developer. There is also the interesting case of the ~~ys. warehouse on Gold ~treet block 2059. It is listed as providing no jobs, but testi~ mony by ~~ys Chairman of the Board r~x Schulman reveals the existence of three Department ~tores and the future of 1,200 jobs are· linked to its continued functioning on that site. more ----------'-- -·-------- I ,I' ! ~· . �-~~iii~- iliililill'lllliiillllilliiililiiiilllilllliliillli------~ .... ·~ 11 ~"arcia ..• I I - Garibaldi METROTECH DEir Testimony ' March 1987 ·· Table "B" is intended to correct Table lV-55 in.the DEI~ It listed 100 residential units, 200 residents and makes no mention of residential/commercial (mixed use) lofts on the site. The implicatims of this are serious. Underestimating the number of dislocated persons means they have underestimated the true cost of relocation. Failing to consider the presence of mixed use units implies they have not considered the dual compensation needs of tho~e who c~nduct businesses in their living spaces. . I Corrections to TI:ELS lV-55 "Su!".rnar:\' of Residential Displacements At r.ETRCTECH SITE" II Fhase Displacement Year p of II Occupied ... Residents Elock. Residential Units • 1 1 143 43 * 80 1 14g 1?. 57 1 147 2058 ?.2 10 44 25 87 206 ) su~total .. .. I( !; f \ ;t, 2&4 11 ) 2048 ?. 8 4 1)? 0 o· 5 5 2060 2059 0 0 11 23 : t .... 5 / i~ _,., 2047 ..-~- .~ ~~ 'i :-~ l 4 i J :!'! i l :I Subtotal 53 18 l i l l TOTALS (Phase 1 & 11) : 105 Units * This includes 9 residential/commercial lofts ** These figures have been combined under Phase venience 259 Residents 11 fer con- �I I I I I I I I I I .. ·~ -~ !I : .... : .: : :.·-: ....• ,... - - !.·' :· - . .. - . -- .- .. ·- . · : •__ .• · • • . . •. ' • . ,-:. :: =. _· ~ ~:- \!._ : ·-· - . . ... ..- . .- ~ ......~ ~ . • W~•tm ~·"'"f':l.:.+"•· w ~~ . ~ ...... 4,. "'-.. -..u.,.v , .. t ., .l . . . ; : "! ' I . . . -e ' ·--11. 1'!'1"'th=-" l'· 0 ,;j ·~-• ~QH <A Q.s. 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T! • • • b·t!i'US.t:...··: .(' 1 , (.: r· t~:'l~ ne.~dea ~·4;~n1tr.::~ial ~pace .. - arid that.do~a .not p~ovi·lo a~ r~~l~:e~~~,i·~· 'I •f 1 • ,• lo• hou~ing i~ •... ·----·-·· ... ··rt th run1~ ,· -- --- · - · · -. . . . . . Tax~.a;tr!• nrt'=>n:ey W¢~ld Ye-rk ~ lready 1 should t~corne the choices -rar .!.llo¢ation ¢t ,1w1ndl1nt clear. ?uolic \lt&l!are muat co~ thil in tnlnd Fun11ng a Thartk ~o youl the w$ again urge you to requ•at Hlro d-$n_y lJDAJ ~~Et~OTECK t=~OJSCT. . ' Sincer•ly ( II I I / II I l re·1~r~ l 'betcr·e pr'lvat, ~al.n. ~-~i th ---........_~ b.a 111 . . !-~~"t• 9evar-& ahortagt of a.!fot:·tiab1t houtli..,~& &t\d 1?5 • 000 hGmCtltt~-' l\ ~.r\ t~e'.'~ I I I I ncttha a.nswitr. .... ,., "' .. ' . �I I I I I I I I I I I I I I 1.: I I I - TESTIMONY ON METROTECH DEIS -- 3/3/87 by David Fisher, resident 351 Jay Street. A year ago April we were invited to comment on the proposed scope for the Metrotech environmental impact study. Unfortunately, McKeon and Franz and Urbitran Associates, the consultants doing the study did not respond to the input that we provided last April. That they should not respond is understandable, since they are employed by the Public Development Corporation, and they know that they will not work in New York City_ if they do not bend what ever they can to produce a study favorable to the project. This will continue to be so until a meaningful system of checks and balances exists in this City. Right now, no such system exists, at least not in Brooklyn. Nonetheless, unless Oliver North has sold his shredder to New York City, there will be a record for others to examine in the future, perhaps even in the very near future. So speak up and also send in your written statements.· .Tonight I will summarize exerpts that I will submit later. \ ~rom·written testimony • At the seeping hearing, I requested that the EIS look at the riskiness of this· project. The ·success of Metrotech depends on one totally unexamined assumption. That assumption is that the financial service sector of New York City will continue to provide growth in jobs, and that NYC can keep that growth in the city by building_cheap back office space. I believe that.this assumption is-wrong and that by building Metrotech w~ will be building empty tombs or pyramids tha~ will serve only as monuments .to greed, dishonesty and incompetence. · · At the scopirtg hearing, I requested that the EIS look at the impact-.of diverting the Jnajority of NYC's funds to p~jects like Metrotech, and away fro~ more important sectors of our economy. While NYC builds back office buildings and luxury apartments that will go unused, we are losing higher paying manufacturing jobs at 5 times the national rate. These are jobs that pay on average 30% higher tban ~ervice sector' jobs, ~av~ higher multiplier. effects, and help us address the trade deficit, unlike service jobs;· The NYC g~vernment is forcing .these primarily small manufacturing fi~ms out .of the City. w~ can only g·ive 20% of. the cred~ t .to fo~eign competition.· .. · The homeless issue aside, even today's New York Times . points out that a major reason for losing companies to the area 1$ lack of affordable.hbusing. How ~any 'of Polytechnic's graduates ~an afford to live in New York City? Now, I have only touched the tip of th~ iceberg about what the.DEIS did not look at. There are·numerous problems with what the DEIS did look at. I wo~ld 'like to briefly ·ta~k· ~h~,..,. +-~vcac: /. .· �I I I I I I I I Any professional economic analysis must take into_account the time value of money and opportunity costs. This is economics or finance 101. Unfortunately this DEIS does neither. If we look at real estate taxes, we find that the discounted cash flow of all the taxes for this project only amounts to only $122 million dollars. This is not even break even when we consider $60 million direct investment and close to what will probably be $100 million in infrastructure improvemnts. And of course, the DEIS does not include the opportunity cost of all the tax breaks that by my calculations add up to a _net present value of $561 million (or in Lotto dollars $1.3 billi~n). Of course I have not talked about the tax revenues to be generated by the new jobs. However, we all know that these jobs are just jobs that are being moved from one side of the East River to the other. Unfortunately, the only real new job creation that will come from this project will be ~egal jobs. Legal jobs that will come from litigation over _this project. Thank you. I. I I I I I I I I I I _,,· • .. .- . . ·.... ' .... '\ ,... . .I : .. .• \ I : I .· �'1 I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I j I Table 7 - NET PRESENT VALUE OF REAL ESTATE TAX INCENTIVES (in millions of dollars) Does not inlude land taxes and rent Real Estate Appreciation Rate 5% Assessed Value is 45% of Market Value Tax is 9.46% of Assesed Value Actual Taxes Paid is from DEIS (iv-215) Discount Rate for Net Present Value Calculations Year 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 \ 10 11 12 13 14 15" 16 17 18 .19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Market Value Market Value Phase II Phase I $330 $347 $364 $382 $440 $401 $462 $421 $485 $442 $509 $464 $535 $488 .$562 .$512 $590 $538 $619 $564 $650 $593 $683 $622 $717 $653 $753 $686 $790 $720 $830 . $756 $871 $794 $915 $834 $960 $876 $1,008 $919 $1,059 $965 $1,112 $1,014 $1,167 $1,064 $1,226 $1,117 $1,287 $1,173 I l I ·t t .t 7.5% Value ., Total Actual Project Normal Taxes of Assesed Value Tax Paid Incenti;~ 1 $149 $14 $0 .$1., J·. $156 . $1.5 $0 $·164 $15 .. $1' l $0 .. $1 f $172 $16 $0 · . $.3: t~ $379 $36 $0 : ! .$3 . !:u $397 $38 $0 .. $3 } $417 $39 $0 .$.4. :t \ $438 $41 ...... . . $4 !!! ·$-0 $460 $44 . ~~ $48_3· $46 · $4 I $0 . $4 ~ $507 $48 $0 ·-$533 - -·$50. '$5 ~~ so .. $559 $53 ·$1 $5 l; $587 $56 $2 $5 \ $·3 . $617 $58 $5 ·! $647 $61 $4' $5 iii $7' $680 $64 $5 $714 $68 $10 $5 $749 $71 $13 $5 $787 $74 $16 $5 $19. $826 $78 $5 $868 $82 $23 $5 $911 $86 $27 $5 $956 $90 $30 $6 $1,004 $95 $33 $6 $1,054 $100 ·$37 $6 $1,107 $105 $40 $6 Value of Perpetuity $533 $86 I . so NET PRESENT VALUE OF TAXES TO BE PAID NET PRESENT VALUE OF TAX BENEFITS $122 $561 NPV OF OPPORTUNITY COST TO GOVERNMENT $440 cash Value of Taxes Not Paid over 27 yrs cash Value of Taxes Paid over 27 yrs $1,279 $265 �., I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I \ I I I I I l ~ 'Ir!"S ... I : ~i·; NEW YORK CITY BuREAUCRATS WANT TO STEAL FROM YOU TO GIVE TO THE RICH!!! HOW? BY THROWING YOU OUT So they can DEMOLISH your buildings by Spring of 1987! The buildings located in the "Metrotech" area between Jay Street and Flatbush Avenue Extension and Tillary and Willoughby Streets. A~ employees, residents, seniors, businesses and owners GET OUT!! So says the Mayor and his bureaucrats. Then they'll give the bulldozed land (despite Articles 5 and 14 of the u.s. Constitution) to Forest City Enterprises, which is an enormously wealthy priv~te profit multi-state corporation and also some !an~ to private profit Polytechnic Institute to build 4 million square feet of offices, etc. If and when ousted, I guess City and State employees o.f Lawrence Street may either be permanently replaced by new hi-tech office equipment or moved to a more difficult transportation or location site. All other tenants and workers will lose everything. WOULDN'T YOU ·RATHER STAY PUT? • Ironically, Polytechnic owns about 139,992 square feet of unused or partially used land in the Metrotech area, and if 30 story buildings were to be erected, it would equal 4,199,760 square.feet of office sp~ce. But you ain't heard nothing yet. New York City owns about 103,406 square feet in the Metrotech are~,. incl~ding the Tillary Street (between Jay and Bridge) playground · which can be built on above an atrium, leaving the playground . intact. All this land if 30 story buildings are built would total 3,021,180 square feet. All combined the grand total would be 1,220,940 square feet, about one and three-quarters times more than they wanted (4,200,000 square feet). Th~~ they can build all the offices /they want right now without condemning or purchasing another inch of land. And right here, lets make an observation. They don't want to purchase the land at· prevailing market prices, but legally, by condemnation, steal land for 2¢ plain on the dollar. Also, for various tax benefit reasons, and to please Polyte6hnic who wants a pretty Ivy League college campus (secured) look - they· have l j have you and I (1,100) thrown out. The Municipal Research Institute in their impartial study shows 14,000 new jobs in the entire borough of Brooklyn in the years 1986-1990. These demolition'proponents misrepresent when they state that the new buildings, when and if built and fully tenanted, wou~d create . 14 500 new jobs. LIES. Meanwhile, the area traffic congestion and the nearby future air pollution already exceeds the carbon monoxide standards for human health! MORE BUILDINGS; MORE BAD AIR, MORE TRAFFIC CONGESTION. ::!· !I �I I I I I I I I I I 1\ I I I I I - 2 - On April 17, 1964, the City Planning Commissi.o~ advocated building 500 ne~ housing units in Mctrot~~cil. :\ot one wa~ built. Indeed, all 1,100 occupants of this area have no houses, apartments, stores, lofts or buildings to be relocated to when thrown out by the scandalously pitiless bureaucrats. SO WHAT CAN YOU DO TO SAVE YOURSELF AND ALL OF US 1,100? Organize to picket City Hall. Martin Luther King Jr. of blessed memory used legal and peaceful marches to shame t~e U.S. political establishment to recognize ethical, moral and equal rights for all. This successful tactic was repeated - believe it or not by the condemning Mayor Koch who wrote in his book "Politics" {page 132), "I love· the combat of the street in politics. So I say, keep up the fight - you can turn City Hall around. They can't impose this on you. It's wrong." Accordingly, ask your fellow employees, church members, unionists, pol~t~cal and soc~al club members, Hispanics, Blacks, Korean groups to help you to organize to PICKET CITY HALL so we can get nationwide media coverage, and hopefully beat this injustice!!! Or perhaps you can.think of any other .legal ideas to stop these . City "terrorists without bombs". If and when dispossessed, q.llegedly by Spring of 1987, we don't leave willingly - they'll drag us out dead or alive! Remember the martyred Eleanor Burnpurs. So, if you are willing to PICKET CITY HALL some nice Saturday morning very soon, please tear and fill out this slip and mail· . to: . SAM KLEIN, 99 Myrtle Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11201 or deposit it in.the mail slot. • PLEASE ACT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!! . I ---~-~----~~-----------------~---~--~~-------~~~~-------------· Sam: sure I'll protect my job and.bui~ding. I'll peacefully picket City Hall. I'll bring along ·people with me. Phone .# My name is / My address is ---------~-------~---~---------------~~----~------------~---~-- For those who can afford it, a financial contribution by check for. court costs would help. Thanks. See you in the victory banquet hall, I hope. I I I ----··· ..... -·---------- J ,,I i :l '! I �·~ ·· I I I I I I I i ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL BOARD 1250 Broadway - 7th F Iocr New York, N.Y. 10001 Telephone: (212) 971-36CO I I I I I I I March 2, 1987 ·Sam Klein 99 f~yrtle Brook~yn, I I I I I I ,.I ',I Avenue New York 11201 Dear Mr. Klein: We received your materials on plans for development in Brooklyn. . • The Environmental Control Board is an administrative tribunal responsible~ for adjudicating sanitation, health and other administrative code violations. · I am forwarrting your letter and supportin~ docu~entation to the City Planning · Commission. \ r~a: j r Liaison cc: City Planning Commission/ -------------··-·----- .. ---··· --·---- �... ''! i i -· '! d .I ·• I Sam Kle'in 99 Hyrtle Avenue Brooklyn, New York 11201 I 718-834-9i97 January 12, 1987 Environmental Control Board 1250 Broadway New York, NY 10001 Gentlemen: It's with considerable trepidation that I worked up enough courage to dare to write to you, sensing that your office is probably inundated with problems and activity. But the "terrorists without bombs" - certain New York City bureaucrats using Eminent Domain precedents as a weapon - want to drive me (and hundreds, many hundreds) out of my (and their) residence and business and legal~y steal my real property for perhaps 2¢ on the replacement dollar and turn same over to private profit corporations! These corporations, each possibly worth billions of dollars, such as Brooklyn Union Gas Co., Securities Industri Automated Corp., Forest City Enterprises Corp., and the much much financially. smaller Polytechnic Institute. \ Would you office consider the following a violation of residential citizens' (many seniors) rights and perhaps offer some hope of helping to·maintain our property rights as guaranteed in Article 5 ·of the U.S. Constitution • . If you'll condescend to peruse this epistle further, here are ju~t some· few facts. ·· On April 17, 1963, an urban renewal designation was made by the New York City Planning Commission (exhibit "A") condemning the Metrotech area between Tillary and Willoughby Streets and Jay Street and Flatbush Avenue Extension in-downtown Brooklyn, New York. This designation was partially and mainly premised upon the construction of 500 housing units, but not· one unit was built. Meanwhile, _no mortgage money loans were available, nor really responsible· buyers or commercial store and loft tenants for fear of condemnation, and now the actual condemnation ouster is hourly imminent! Believe it - it's true! So that you will not think this letter is a hoax, because it's mind boggling how cruel, unjust, conniving, illegal, un-American and U.S. Constitution crushing the New York City scandal ridden politicians can be, enclosed are the following supporting documents and much much more is available upon your request. -----· ···--·-·" ........ . �I I I I I I I January 12, 1987 page two Exhibit J re theNe~ York City Public Development Corporation. Exhibit Horror re Forest City Enterprise Corporation fact sheet. Exhibit N re Brooklyn Union Gas Company. Exhibits S and R re Securities Industry Automation Corp. and B.U.G. Exhibit H re Polytechnic Institute fact sheet. Unbelieveably, between 3.3 and 5 acres out of the 16 acres to be condemned are to be a garden, semantically termed "landscaped commons." To cloak their land grab with civic virtue, it claimed that 14,500 new jobs would be created in Metrotech. Again, please see exhibit "Horror." But the independent Municipal Research Institute of New York, in its impartial study, shows indeed a 14,000 new jobs gain, but to be made in the entire borough of Brooklyn between 1986 and 1990! Thus another misrepresentation is exposed (see exhibit "New Jobs"). More vehicular traffic due to a tremendous amount of-contemplated new skyscraper office buildings is a real barrier toward these constructions. (Please see exhibit 1, page 6, issued by the New York City Department· of Trans-. portation Fact Book" which study authenticates that the area is already vehicular traffic saturated. • I I ,.-. ~-~ 1\ I I I I I I I Another serious barrier toward skyscrapers in the area is air pollution·, . new and already existing. (Please see exhibit "Bad Air" and federal government's. · intervention.) .. How will your office shield us many hundreds of occupants (many seniors) from the immoral and unjust and unethical New York City politicians and· burea.ucrats from this land grab? Ironically, Polytechnic Institute and the · City of New York own enough land plus space over Polytechnic's one.and two story high present buildings to erect in the Metrotech area many many millions of . · square feet of office space without condemnation or even purchasing any more rau9· (supporting measurements available upon your request). But no- they want to legally steal and throw us out into the ~streets or into project housing if and when available. ' The bureaucrats evince little or no. concern for Civil Rights, Human Righ~s, Private Property Rights, Civil Liberties, Seniors' Rights, Rights of Self Determination, Free Choice Rights, Equal Treatment Under the Law Rights! Will your office consider this outrageous injustice a proper sphere for your intervention to somehow put a stop to this terrorist activity? Regardless, a thousand million thanks for your consideration ·from a heartbroken senior. .,1 P.S. I merely ask for maintaining my property rights under the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution which is supposed to guarantee "Equal protection under the law" for the poor as well as the·· rich. ARt.I of Sec.~ of the New York State Constitution reads likewise, but the politicos' actions seek to negate and nullify sacred obligations. 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