Members

Churches United for Fair Housing

St.  Stephen’s United Church of God Outreach Inc.

Association of Hispanic Ministers (Interdenominational)

106 Gerry Street Tenants Association

St. Peter Claver Roman Catholic Church

All Saints Corp.

Our Lady of the Rosary Roman Catholic Church

Nuestros Niños Child Development School

St. Lucy – St. Patrick Roman Catholic Church

St. Martin de Porres Roman Catholic Parish

United Neighbors Organization

Our Lady of Monserrate Roman Catholic Church

Bushwick United Headstart

Community & Parents Day Care

St. John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church

Cooper Park Tenants Association

St. Nicholas Neighborhood Preservation Corp.

Passionist Community of Our Lady of Monserrate Roman Catholic Church

El Puente

All Saints Roman Catholic Church

Central Jewish Council

First Spanish Presbyterian Church

Los Sures Community Development Company, Inc.

Mary of Nazareth Roman Catholic Parish

United Jewish Community Advocacy Relations and Enrichment (UJCARE)

Pratt Institute – Newman Club

41 Whipple Street Tenants Association

Opportunities for a Better Tomorrow

Our Lady of Victory Roman Catholic Church

Passionist Center for Justice, Peace, and the Integrity of Creation at North Brooklyn

Marcy Houses Tenant Association

St. Brigid’s Roman Catholic Church

Trinity Human Services

Our Lady of Good Counsel Roman Catholic Church

Primera Iglesia Getsemani (Pentecostal)

Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church

Most Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church

St. Michael – St. Edward Roman Catholic Church

Save Our Southside

Bushwick Housing Independence Project

Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation A, Counsel

Welcome to the Broadway Triangle Community Coalition (BTCC) Website.  The Coalition was formed in response to the Broadway Triangle Re-zoning (to be clear the BTCC does not support the re-zoning and urges the city council to vote “NO” on this re-zoning.  The land in question borders the communities of Bed-Stuy, Bushwick, Williamsburg Brooklyn, New York.

Let’s start off by saying that this isn’t any easy topic to discuss. 

Like an onion as you see above.  How so? Well, when you cut an onion, it’s quite certain to shed a tear or two.  When you hear about the political back room deals that were made to forward the Broadway Triangle re-zoning and excluding hundreds of local community residents, you will shed a tear too.

An onion has layers, just like the Broadway Triangle re-zoning, the minute you think you understand and it can’t get worse, that the city and some public officials can’t really be doing this.  You will peel another layer, then another and another. 

Where to start is always the problem with the Broadway Triangle.  Let’s just dive in! 

The Broadway Triangle rezoning is going through a ULURP process. What does that mean?  Well, it needs to be reviewed by local and city wide agencies.  Community Board 1, Brooklyn Borough President, which at this point no matter of their decision the re-zoning continues.  The Next stop takes us to the City Planning Commission (CPC).  Finally,   the City Council, where at this point something can be done here.  If they vote “NO” to this re-zoning, the Mayor can still veto the vote, but in turn the city council can overturn the Mayor’s veto. 

Ok, that’s the process, what’s the problem?

As shown in this image above, you can see the highlighted blue represents the Broadway Triangle as identified by BTCC and the original urban renewal plan.  The Dissected HPD version highlighted in red specifically is designed among other things to clearly cut out the Bed-Stuy i.e. community board 3 from the process.  Another issue is the process of how the City came up with the plan to begin with.  Two organizations, RBSCC and UJO got site control of public land yes public land without a competitive bid. Just complete control, a no bid contract to build affordable housing in the re-zoning, in turn they were responsible to hold a local community meeting that would bring stakeholders to meet and discuss their vision of the Broadway Triangle.  However, they only invited themselves.  Taken back by this, more then 40 organizations as you see to the left got together and requested for another community forum aka “Charrette”.   This was agreed upon by the other two organizations that got site control of this public land.  But, these two groups RBSCC and UJO at the 11^th hour pulled out of the meeting.  In turn, the Broadway Triangle Community Coalition was formed on September 2008.  On December 2008 we held this community forum and invited over 70 organizations, local residents and elected officials to part take in this meeting.

From this community meeting came some great ideas that the city re-zoning doesn’t have:

• A brand new park and open space that the current re-zoning adds ZERO park or open space
• Doubles the amount of affordable housing
• A business solution not like the HPD rezoning that uses Eminent Domain.
• A  50% percent community  preference on the affordable housing would go to both community board 1 (Williamsburg & Green point) and community board 3 (Bed-stuy) not like the HPD rezoning that only gives it to cb1
• Cut -out the Pfizer properties that will give them an instant 20 million dollars of value without any requirement to build affordable housing.
• Finally, a real plan with a real community not like the HPD plan taken from two organizations.
  

What now?  How do you get involve:  EASY!

Emailed us at:

contact@broadwaytriangle.com

Finally, don’t take our word for it, read stories written about us below:

 
Fall 2009

"Broadway Triangle Tangle Broadens"

A New York Times Message about the Broadway Triangle 

Protestors of Broadway Triangle Rezoning Plan Rally

Thursday November 21, 2009  on City Hall Steps

September 2009

Sept. 10 - Gersh Kuntzman's" Racial and religiuos discrimination alleged in Triangle homes plan"-Daily News

Sept. 10 - Gersh Kuntzman's" Bullets over Broadway as city is sued over Triangle rezoning"-The Brooklyn Paper

Sept. 10 - Juliet Linderman's " A hearing, a lawsuit, a many-sided triangle"-Greenpoint Gazette

August 2009

August 7- Aaron Short's " Beep sucked into Broadway Triangle"-Willamsburg Courier

August 6 - Juliet Linderman's " Can't Fugghettabout
The Broadway Triangle"-Greenpoint Gazette

August 6 - Kareem Fahim's "Old Feuds Resurface in Brooklyn Rezoning Fight"-New York Times

August 1- Aaron Short's " Biviano attacks Vito Lopez Machine"-Willamsburg Courier

JULY 2009

June 17-Daniel Bush's "Lost in the Broadway Triangle" - News Article

June 15-Aaron Short's "Triangle feud 
grows acute" - News Article

June 11-Reid's Pillifant's "Broadway Triangle Zoning Fight" - News Article

June 11-El punto de vista de El Diario en el Triángulo de Broadway- News Article

June 5-COMMUNITY BOARD 1 NEEDS TO HEAR FROM YOU!

June 4- Aaron Short's Article on June 1, 2009 Meeting-News Article

June 2- BTCC PLAN FOR THE BROADWAY TRIANGLE -PRESENTATION.PPS

May 7- Pratt Students present plan for the Broadway Triangle at Pratt

March 2009

February 2009

February 5, 2009-BFJ Planning Presentation.PDF

February 4, 2009-Jan. 26, 2009 Town Hall Meeting Photos

Febrary 3, 2009-BTCC Newsletter. PDF

January 2009

January 26, 2009-Town Hall Meeting to present the vision of the Broadway Triangle. PDF

December 2008

December 5, 2008- Daily News article on the charrette (clicking link will navigate you to Daily News Website)

Reps. Velázquez and Towns Urge Greater Participation in Broadway Triangle Project-Press Release

December 3, 2008 Charrette Pictures

Brooklyn Communities Finally Get Chance to Weigh In on Triangle-Press Release

BTCC Charrette-Press Release

November 2008

BTCC delivers 3,800 letters to HPD in response to Broadway Triangle Rezoning Scope

BTCC urges all residents to respond to November 17, 2008 Scoping Session!

BTCC request HPD to postpone scoping session!