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

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 04:45:17 +0000

The Con Ed learning center is a school for con ed employees.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:53:30 +0000

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.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 24 May 2008 18:54:57 +0000

#24 do you really think anyone believes you?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 24 May 2008 01:21:11 +0000

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.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 23 May 2008 21:34:00 +0000

23 you are right its not public. Stay away. I heard a longtime LIC resident and his 5 year old daughter were arrrested last week for scaling the fence and tresspassing. Rockrose has a private secuity force that roughed them up before the police arrived.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 23 May 2008 14:25:29 +0000

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

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 23 May 2008 13:45:47 +0000

Why would anyone want a ballfield right outside their building anyway? Stupid idea.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 23 May 2008 02:01:02 +0000

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

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 22 May 2008 20:54:59 +0000

#19 why do you assume that jobs would be eliminated? Where is the NY board of Ed going to go? NJ? This is about bring revenues to the city and using land for its highest and best use.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 22 May 2008 18:18:26 +0000

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.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 22 May 2008 17:58:49 +0000

A learning center does not have to be in the water front. The same thing with the Boards of Edu. (storage and distribution center) building next to Water´s Edge. These buildings and land could be sold and the money could be put to better use.

By: Stevie Wonder

Stevie Wonder — Thu, 22 May 2008 14:16:42 +0000

#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!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 22 May 2008 13:44:37 +0000

where is the ball field with the running track? The private one for Rockrose?

By: anonymous

anonymous — Thu, 22 May 2008 12:36:32 +0000

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”.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 21 May 2008 19:22:11 +0000

It’s better than nothing at all or an empty lot with rusting cars and rats the size of small dogs running around.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 21 May 2008 17:19:57 +0000

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

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 21 May 2008 17:15:40 +0000

#10 enjoy looking through the locked ConEd gates at your waterfront. At least of a condo is built you will be able to access it. Maybe a park will be built.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 21 May 2008 16:55:05 +0000

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

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 21 May 2008 16:42:24 +0000

What so another highrise can block the water front – I’d prefer the learning center

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 21 May 2008 12:47:19 +0000

Con Ed = Tyrell Corporation

By: superSTAR

superSTAR — Tue, 20 May 2008 23:49:42 +0000

Wouldn’t it be a perfect world if that were to come true.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 20 May 2008 22:54:40 +0000

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.

By: Rodney

Rodney — Tue, 20 May 2008 20:20:13 +0000

That isn’t a ConEveryone power plant in the photo, its Keyspan.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 20 May 2008 19:03:43 +0000

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.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 20 May 2008 18:40:04 +0000

nice pic!