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NOT COOL: Only one of four nonfreezing
fountains arrived by
Thanksgiving, locals said.
It’s water towers near Botanic Garden in Crown Heights
torture!
Slopers irate over
delayed arrival of
park’s fountains
BY COLIN MIXSON
Prospect Park joggers are furious
that meadow keepers have
yet to install three out of four
non-freezing water fountains
that they promised to debut by
Thanksgiving.
“Don’t promise something
and then blow by it,” said
Sloper Redmond Haskin.
Locals in 2016 voted to fund
the four fountains — which
cost taxpayers some $175,000,
but retail for a modest $2,000
each — via Park Slope Councilman
Brad Lander’s participatory
budgeting initiative.
And last moth, Lander
and meadow stewards with
the Prospect Park Alliance
announced the arrival of the
ever-fl owing H20 dispensers,
which are supposed to hydrate
park-goers between November
and April, when the standard
water fountains in Brooklyn’s
Backyard are switched off.
But locals looking to
quench their thirst since then
BUILDERS GET
ROOM TO GROW
City green-lights rezoning for two controversial
BY COLIN MIXSON
The city approved a developer’s
request to upzone land
near the Brooklyn Botanic
Garden to make way for two
controversial towers, after a
Crown Heights councilwoman
hashed out a deal she claims
will nearly double the amount
of below-market-rate housing
included in the project.
“This is nothing short of
a miracle to announce I have
secured commitments to increase
affordable housing,”
Crown Heights Councilwoman
Laurie Cumbo boasted at a
Dec. 13 Council Subcommittee
on Zoning and Franchises
hearing, ahead of the body’s
full vote on Dec. 20.
Developers Cornell Realty
and Carmel Partners originally
sought to build two
16-story towers near Franklin
Avenue at 40 Crown St. and
931 Carroll St., which would
together include 518 rentals,
140 of which would be belowmarket
rate.
But under the new deal, the
builders are required to dedicate
space for an additional
118 so-called affordable rentals,
bringing a total of 258 below
market-rate units to the
area, according to Cumbo.
Almost all of the addi-
Ice work!
Santa Claus and tyke Skylar Mendoza made a perfect pair while gliding across the ice rink at Prospect
Park’s LeFrak Center on Dec. 18, when the man in red showed off his moves during an event hosted
by leaders of Park Slope’s Methodist Hospital. For more, see page 12. Photo by Nina Cochran
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