The City and Phoenix Beverage: Kind of Keeping Their Word?

We covered the spat between Columbia Street residents and Phoenix Beverage, the EDC's newest tenant (and, from a logistical perspective, the perfect tenant). Basically, Phoenix and the City were exposed as big, fat liars. According to the Brooklyn Paper, they are now keeping their word, but under the guise of a "compromise". Between this and Joan Millman's bike land compromise, Noah Webster must be spinning in his grave.

"Eventually, Teamsters, bosses from Phoenix Beverages, local pols and residents reached a compromise in which the trucks would bypass Columbia Street by driving on the BQE between Hamilton to Atlantic avenues.

“We’re extraordinarily happy,” said Brian McCormick, a member of the Columbia Waterfront Neighborhood Association. “The trucks are pretty much gone. There is a system in place that is working, and we’re hoping that will continue.”

The trucks are expected to continue cruising on the BQE until the chronically delayed reconstruction of Van Brunt Street is completed, opening up the proper truck route from Degraw Street to Hamilton Avenue (officials say the work could be done next summer)."

Make no mistake; this is anything BUT a compromise. This was community leaders forcing a private company (with an EDC lease) to adhere to the stipulations that they had agreed upon. 

I was at those meetings and voted on the deal. The use of the BQE was a MAJOR point of Phoenix and EDC's pitch.