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BROOKLYN WEEKLY, DEC. 16, 2018
ICE CREAM
are the main attraction for
Pier 1!”
The long-time ice-cream
vendor’s exit will make way
for the arrival of a larger
Brooklyn Bridge Park outpost
of the ever-expanding,
borough-based Ample
Hills, which will ditch the
tiny concession stand it
currently operates at the
other end of the meadow on
Pier 5 and set up shop inside
the fi reboat station.
Green-space leaders
chose Ample Hills — which
is also in the process of
opening a Park Slope outpost
, and a massive icecream
factory in Red Hook
— after this summer issuing
a request for proposals
from vendors interested in
moving into the station, according
to park bigwig David
Lowin. That request
came months after city offi
cials handed control of
the public space over to
meadow keepers last year.
Thompson submitted a
proposal to keep his shop
operating in the space, but
said he was told to make a
better offer than what he
initially proposed, before
ultimately getting the boot.
“They asked me if I
would be willing to up
our offer, we weren’t really
in the ball game,” he
said. “They chose to go in a
whole other direction.”
Brooklyn Bridge Park
head Eric Landau said he
and fellow leaders of the
semi-private Brooklyn
Bridge Park Corporation,
which oversees the lawn,
are trying to fi nd another
space in the sprawling
meadow for Thompson and
O’Keefe’s beloved sweet
spot, noting that the Pier
5 stand Ample Hills will
soon vacate is among the
options.
“We are in conversations
with them about
other opportunities in the
park, that is certainly one
of the other opportunities,”
said Landau.
But Thompson called
that offer a joke, because
the booth is roughly a quarter
of the size of his current
station setup, making it impossible
to employ his dozens
of employees and churn
out the freshly made frozen
stuff his creamery is
known for.
“I said I’m not interested.
It barely fi ts two
employees and a scooping
freezer,” said the co-owner,
who also runs a Greenpoint
location of Brooklyn Ice
Cream Factory. “We made
everything on the premises.
The thing that bothers
me most is that I have
38 employees — all jobs I
cant maintain without a
place.”
Ample Hills will open its
creamery in the fi rst fl oor
of the fi rehouse station, according
to park reps.
And the building’s
second fl oor will soon be
the new home of a handicapped
accessible Brooklyn
Historical Society exhibit
that pays homage to
the history of the building,
and the original Brooklyn
Ferry — which fi rst set sail
across the East River to
Manhattan in 1642 — the
meadow keepers said.
Park offi cials also
tapped restaurateurs Alex
and Miles Pincus, the men
behind the fl oating restaurant
Pilot aboard a boat
that docks at the park’s Pier
6 in the warmer months , to
open another seasonal cafe
and bar in the outdoor area
outside the fi rehouse station.
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