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Such mixed feelings about this project. On one hand the extra residents will be a net positive for businesses in the area, investment in additional park space for Greenpoint, rid the area of huge swaths of vacant land and hopefully lead the push for increased service/capacity on the G.

On the other hand I cant help but feel anxious that Greenpoint will start down the slippery slope of losing its identity. This is a very tight knit community, one full of hard working Polish families who meticulously care for their property and neighborhood... and the new influx of young people who are looking for a culturally rich, safe, quiet, affordable neighborhood to reside in... and where it will head after this massive project who knows.

Its possible that the soulless glass filler towers are causing some of the anxiety, creating a nervousness as one imagines some disgusting, pompous architecture lining the shores... so hopefully the final designs will invoke a certain nostalgia for the area's industrial, broad shouldered past... instead of some bullshit glass 'globally ambiguous' design.