It’s bad enough that several government agencies have commandeered Cadman Plaza East for their own private parking lot — but when it came to the snow removal of a nearby park walkway, they were left pointing fingers.
Last week’s ice storm gave Brooklyn Heights residents another example of the “All for one, none for all” attitude of both the Federal District Court and the city Office of Emergency Management. Workers from each agency plowed their own sidewalks beautifully, but left the 100-yard stretch of sidewalk between their buildings untouched. Couldn’t they have just split the difference?
“We do our part,” said OEM spokesman Jarrod Bernstein. “We are not responsible for the park.”
Bernstein’s counterpart at the federal General Services Administration, which owns the federal District Court building, said the same thing.
“We clean the snow from our property.” said Renee Miscione, regional press officer for the GSA. “We stop plowing at the boundary line.”
Last week, The Brooklyn Paper contacted the Parks Department to report that the sidewalk remained unplowed two days after the ice storm. Finally, within two hours, the department had done the work.
