City urging ConEd to sell its $500M waterfront property and lower rates

With all due respect, the “city” is not asking Con Ed to do anything. Eric Gioia, who is running for public advocate, is making noise about it.

Unlikely they will sell in the near or not-so-near future. Anyhow the 421a fun is about to end.

Gioia is an idiot and I wouldn’t vote that loser for anything. That said he is right on this one. There is no reason for ConEd to have that learning center and parking lot on the waterfront. I’d rather see them sell and invest the proceeds in upgrading the electricity grid and/or not increasing prices.

Agree with #5. There no reason waterfront property should be used as a parking lot. Its a sin. 421 or not that site would get top dollar. Sell it an use the money to pay for capital improvements. They can rent a training facility when it is needed just like every other corporation does.

Con Ed = Tyrell Corporation

Is that the place where Conn-Ed learns how to gouge its customers?

I don’t care what developers call them. Those narrow 4 foot wide strips of land on the river are not parks.

I wonder if #13 has actually visited the waterfront. Gantry Park with its piers and the new ballfield with running track are hardly “4 foot wide strips”.

#16 – The ball field and running track are part of the public park as is the pavilion that is being built just past the Rockrose “View” tower.

#14 – Good to see you have high standards!

BTW this # thing sucks!

18, the only “better use” that would realistically result from removing those two properties, and eliminating the jobs of the people who work there, is yet more high-priced condos. Instead, I’d rather see some a more imaginative use, like repurposing the learning center and BOE buildings into a school.

That is NO BALLFIELD – wait maybe t-ball – but that’s it – way tooooooo small

that running track with the little patch of grass in the middle (alleged ball field) is PUBLIC? Then how do you get in there?

As I understand it, the park will be a state public park. It has not been finished yet, so has not been opened. But when it is finished, it will be opened to the public.

I think Con Ed should sell it’s land to the same billionaires who priced all of native Western Queens residents OUT OF Western Queens. That way, all of the trust fund kids who have moved here in the last 3 years and do nothing but whine and go to the latest crap ‘ASIAN FUSION’ restaurants can be equally pushed out by the Euro / Asian uber rich trash buying all of the apartments in midtown and displacing the out of work Wall Street types. We could all live happily ever after 50 miles away and commute on the LIE to our meaningless jobs in Manhattan with our SVU’s and park in THEIR neighborhoods and add another 5 degrees to global warming so we could flood everyone out of the riverfront for good, effectively releasing all of the toxins laying beneath the ground that Con Ed put there 60 years ago that they don’t talk about.