Atlantic Yards/Pacific Park Report

A message from Empire State Development: In consideration of the Presidential Primary Election “Primary Day”, we are rescheduling the April 19th Atlantic Yards aka Pacific Park Brooklyn Community Update Meeting. The meeting will now be held on Wednesday, April 13th. @ 6:00 PM Shirley Chisholm State Office Building 55 Hanson Place, 1st Floor Conference Room Brooklyn NY 11217 Remember, this used to be the Quality of Life Committee. Then it became a Community Update Meeting. Or, perhaps, as shown in the announcement below, the Quality of Life Community Update Meeting.

A message yesterday from Empire State Development: In consideration of summer vacation plans and to ensure the most up to date information is shared with the community we are rescheduling, the August 19th Atlantic Yards aka Pacific Park Brooklyn Community Update Meeting (formerly known as Quality of Life). The meeting is being moved to Wednesday, September 16th. The September 16th meeting will take place at: @ 6:00 PM Shirley Chisholm State Office Building 55 Hanson Place, 1st Floor Conference Room Brooklyn NY 11217 A tentative meeting agenda has been attached for your review. We look forward to seeing you then. Note that the postponement also means that officials from the developer and state get to avoid pesky questions about the intrusive 5 am noise from the block party Saturday, the time of which was never disclosed, or the noisy basketball tournament on the arena plaza, which was never announced.

Yesterday, at the second meeting of the Atlantic Yards Community Development Corporation (AY CDC), two schedules were released. Future AY CDC meetings are tentatively scheduled for the third Tuesday of the month at 3 pm, with time and location to be confirmed: Tuesday, May 19 Tuesday, August 18 Tuesday, November 17 Future Community Update meetings (formerly known as Quality of Life Committee meetings) will be held on Wednesdays at 6 pm at a location to be confirmed: Wednesday, April 22 ( Shirley Chisholm State Office Building, 55 Hanson Place ) Wednesday, June 24 Wednesday, August 19 Wednesday, October 14 Wednesday, December 9 (Here's coverage of the meeting itself.)