Greenpoint landing and dogs go together - and this is why.
A lot of people in a recent dog-hating thread seem to not understand how dogs and the waterfront are tied together, who manages these parks and pay for the maintenance.
Re-some "can't believe the dog owners are ruining the reseeding of the parks paid by our tax dollars! " comments - showing complete misunderstanding and confusion.
Some background information:
- Luxury building nowadays can get some important tax benefits by both: putting some amount of units to affordable housing, and opening and maintaining some public spaces/amenities. The latter is seen in some public plaza around Midtown for example, and some waterfront development in Greenpoint.
- Most of the waterfront of Greenpoint - besides Transmitter park and the new Bushwick inlet park - is built and maintained by these property management companies. This includes Greenpoint Landing from Brookfield Property (EaglexWest, Blue Slip, Bell Slip), the waterfront north and south of the Greenpoint Ferry (and at the foot of the luxury buildings managing them), the newly developed waterfront by Calyer, etc.
- These luxury building have a lot of units and tend to be dog-friendly. A lot of people were saying stuff like "bad choice to move here with a dog". Uhhm actually. A dog-friendly luxury building (some of them with in-building dog day-care) with adjoining green space and a waterfront is one of *the best place* you could move to inner NYC with a dog.
So what happens is:
New luxury building on the waterfront -> waterfront park development -> park is managed and maintained by property management
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New luxury building *with a ton of unit* and *dog-friendly* on the waterfront -> people with dogs move there -> more dogs in the neighborhood -> no proper dog space -> dogs damage the waterfront park
Dogs and the waterfront are inherently tied together via the choices of the property management. But also, that waterfront development and maintenance is paid by the rent of all these transplants with dogs you complain about - not your tax dollars.
The problem is:
Brookfield property in particular made these dog-friendly buildings but did not include in their waterfront development space for these dogs (let's ignore that ridiculous pebble corner).
What they SHOULD have done is turning one of the green spaces in a dog park. They could still do this. If dogs ruin their lawns, and they have to maintain them more, that could be an incentive for them to actually care about the dogs they brought to the neighborhood.
SO no proper dog space -> dogs damage the waterfront park -> Brookfield property pays (-> paid with the rent of people with dogs renting in luxury building).
This is also why complaining to 311 is useless. This is not a NYC park. This is a privately managed park.
The waterfront development has been led by the luxury high-rise we like to complain about, and paid by the transplant dog owners this community likes to bash on.
What you can do is complain to Brookfield property and others, to stop building this huge amount of dog-friendly housing and bringing dogs into the neighborhood but omitting to include them in their public amenities developments.
Putting a picture from Brookfield property website (you can also check https://greenpointlanding.com/ )
