10-year fight continues: Trees vs. garage at historic Riverside Houses
Residents of the historic brick Riverside Houses at 24 Joralemon St. in Brooklyn Heights have started an online fundraising effort to fight their landlord’s plan to build a roughly 90-car underground commercial parking garage in their courtyard.
Tenants at the five-building complex have been battling the garage since 2008, and the case has been in and out of court several times. Last month, the city gave the landlord, the Pinnacle Group (operating through Joralemon Realty) permission to excavate the tree-filled courtyard.
The Riverside Tenants Association hopes to raise $19,000 so their attorneys can file an appeal to stop the project. By press time, the fund had raised $1,770.