New fight blooms over proposed tower next to Brooklyn Botanic Garden
A fight is unfolding over a proposal for a new 14-story building across the street from the Brooklyn Botanic Garden — just three years after community advocates sunk plans for an even larger development at the same location, arguing it would cast harmful shadows over the storied green space.
The draft environmental statement on the new proposal said the smaller, scaled back development would still result “in significant adverse impacts to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden,” with the development obscuring sunlight from most areas of the garden for 30 to 90 minutes per day. This map, published in a draft environmental assessment, estimates the shadows on March 21 and September 21 of each year that could be caused from a 14-story development across the street from the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.by a proposedThe environmental review for the 14-story tower laid out the garden would not be significantly impacted by the shadows if certain greenhouses were moved or if artificial lighting were installed. But the review said both of those options were unfeasible.
Building and Construction Trade Council of New York President Gary LeBarbera wrote in testimony last year the building “is an example of the type of housing projects that our city must support.”
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