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Industry City leaders want more huge planters to curb big rigs’ illegal parking
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BY COLIN MIXSON
They’re trying to stem illegal
parking!
Sunset Park civic gurus
blessed Industry City honchos’
scheme to install more
giant planters outside the
sprawling commercial hub, in
an effort to stop big rigs from
illegally parking on streets
surrounding it.
Bigwigs at the campus
placed similar dumpster gardens
along its Second Avenue
border between 32nd and 36th
streets in 2017.
And the number of tractor
trailers hogging that curb
space subsequently declined,
proving the structures’ effectiveness,
according to the
leader of Community Board
7’s Transportation Committee.
“They did it on Second
Avenue and it worked,” Zak
Jasie said at his committee’s
Feb. 11 meeting.
Now, Industry City bigwigs
want to place more of
the 11-foot dumpsters fi lled
with trees — the fi rst batch of
which were originally built to
soak up storm water, and debuted
along the Gowanus Canal
before landing in Sunset
Park — outside the complex’s
Building 19 on 39th Street between
First and Second avenues.
The planters would be
spaced roughly 20 feet apart,
creating gaps with plenty of
space for passenger vehicles
to park and box trucks to unload.
But the gaps between the
planters will not provide
enough room for truckers to
stow their 50-foot big rigs at
the curb, according to Industry
City Chief Executive Offi -
cer Andrew Kimball.
“We’ve been watching for
years and years,” Kimball
told the committee. “They
are not doing business in Industry
City, they’re not doing
business in the area.”
Building 19 is home to
the Brooklyn Nets’s massive
twin-court training facility,
and the ballers worry the illegally
parked big rigs could
prevent emergency personnel
from quickly entering in the
event of a fi re or other unexpected
incident, according to
a rep.
“We have concerns if there
was some sort of emergency,
and fi rst responders had to
respond to a fi re or something
like that,” Jordan Ballard
said at the meeting.
But the building isn’t just
where the Nets practice.
It also houses multiple
businesses, including java
purveyor Gumption Coffee
and eye-glasses manufacturer
M Factory, which together
employ hundreds of
people, Kimball said.
And the tractor-trailers
don’t just hog street parking
outside of Building 19.
The vehicles also stymie
commerce by shielding the
commercial spaces from suppliers
and customers, according
to the owner of Gumption
Coffee, which operates a cafe
in the building and roasts its
beans on-site.
“Our suppliers can’t fi nd
us, they’re passing by the
street because we’re blocked
by trucks,” said Hazel de los
Reyes.
CB7’s Transportation
Committee unanimously approved
the installation of
more of the planters at the
recent meeting, but one civic
guru worried that bringing
them to 39th Street would
result in more trucks illegally
parked elsewhere in the
neighborhood.
The committee chairman
acknowledged the larger
truck-parking issue across
Sunset Park — where he said
trucks illegally park along
several curbs — and blamed
it on a lack of enforcement.
“We have a problem district
wide with trucks parking
under the Gowanus,
trucks parking all the way
down Second Avenue to 53rd
Street, and it’s seldom enforced,”
Jasie said.
INDUSTRIAL PLANT: Industry City
honchos want to use garden planters
like this to prevent illegal parking
on 39th Street.
Photo by Colin Mixson