Liena thank you for summarizing this stuff. You are dead right on this area in particular not protecting itself from developers. The new buildings must come with their own parking. And the the local schools are overwhelmed specifically due to the explosion of development in the last few years. A whole new floor needs to be added to the top of PS 154. The spats between new neighbors who bought because of a school they now cannot get into have gotten nasty. And politicians when confronted seem to be afraid the developers will just stop. Maybe like the drivers on the Fort Hamilton Parkway circle, it won’t kill them to just slow down and see how they can fit into the rest of the community.

Felix, your comments about “hasidics” and “the west bank” are out of line. If by “the developer needs to be unbias” (unbiased?) you are suggesting that Jewish developers will build only for Jews, that’s also plain silly. Finally, the rich do not use community centers.
I have a suspicion that one subtext is that Jews are taking over Kensington and Windsor Terrace. Also silly. We always had Jews among our neighbors. When I was a student at P.S. 154, a very long time ago, the classrooms were almost empty on High Holy Days (before they became school holidays). I used to wonder, “Where is everybody?” Maybe the vacant chairs had to do with the fact that so many Catholic families sent their children to Holy Name.
I agree with you on one point: We do have an awesome park three blocks away. I do wish, though, that some of the current users of the park would cart away their garbage instead of leaving it scattered under the trees where they were sitting. When my grandmother, who had emigrated to this country as a young girl, took my cousins and me to Prospect Park for picnics in the 1950s, whatever we brought into the park that ended up as refuse, we took home to throw away. I wonder what’s so hard about that.

Thanks so much for bringing all this too light and doing the hard work to find out what the developers are up too. You have great ideas that will truly benefit everybody in the neighborhood!