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Page 6, PHOENIX Junei e i s i m hhr% \\t n a +will i v i m y w w iCity Building at Fulton and WaterFor Art SchoolBY DAN ICOLARIFulton Ferry, the area at the base of Fulton Street facing the East River, is probably going to be a very exciting place once all the plans for the site coalesce.There is a proposal for a waterfront park, one for a %u201cfloating\restaurant to be housed in a boat moored to the bulkhead. There has been talk about narrowing the roadbed and limiting vehicular traffic to encourage pedestrian use. Housing for artists has been proposed as well as the retention of existing commercial and industrial use of adjoining sidestreets, which would promote a solid mixed-use situation. But the latest--and surely one of the most important--developments is that the Brooklyn Museum Art School may move there.Next March, the Department of Purchase will vacate the building and adjoining lot it now occupies at the corner of Fulton and Water Streets. According to Charles Jones, a spokesman for the Department, there are no plans for the building%u2019s disposition at this time. But Marvin Bogner of the City%u2019s Department of Real Estate says that under standard City policy the building will be offered to other city agencies before it is made available to commercial or industrial tenants.If no other city agency expresses interest in the building, one possible future occupant may be the Brooklyn Museum Art School, which was invited to negotiate for the building by the Office of Downtown Brooklyn Development. School director George McClancy says the move is being given serious consideration.%u201c We need feasibility studies and estimates on the cost of renovation. Also, we have to determine whethera school in that location can survive; we don%u2019t want to be a white elephant in the middle of an undeveloped factory district. But if the studies and estimates look good, then we%u2019ll probably enter negotiations with the City,%u201dMcClancy says the Art School would gain a fair amount of space if it were to occupy the Department of Purchase building. He also feels that while the Art School %u201c has many friends\rators prefer to be able to exhibit their holdings rather than keep them in storage-which is as it should be.\can be overcome, the Museum and the Art School both stand to gain from such a move, and the downtown Brooklyn area would gain an important cultural resource as well.Restaurateur Michael O%u2019leefe whose firm, Dircksen & Talleyrand, has proposed the floating restaurant, had heard about Department of Purchase plans to vacate the building beneath the Brooklyn Bridge. %u201c In fact,%u201d says O'Keefe, %u201c it was offered to me. But the restaurant I%u2019m planning will seat and serve people on a boat; food preparation will take place in a small, inconspicuous building to be constructed on the bulkhead. I have no use for a building like that.%u201dO'Keefe says he has hired the firm of Pomeroy & Ladusca for design and planning of the Fulton Ferry restaurant, noting the firm%u2019s experience with Fulton Mall and other urban design projects. When asked whether the restaurant designs have been completed or whether he could discuss them, designer Lee Pomeroy said his firm%u2019s commitment to the project is based on a handshake, but that noYARDSTICKCreative Needlecrafts - Yarns - Rugs Original Designs - Needlecrafts Mounted182 Henry Street 855 13814macrame cords %u00a3 beadsquality weaving %u00a3 knitting yarnsHANDWOVEN %u00a3 PRINTED FABRICS%u2022 c l a s s e s %u2022264 CLINTON STREET %u00a3ET fti HandW BROOKLYN. ISerious consideration is finally being given the many plans torevitalize the valuable but neglected site of the old Fulton FerrySlip. Already under consideration is a waterfront park with afloating restaurant and a nearly unobstructed view of thespectacular d ty skyline, New York Harbor, and Brooklyn Bridge.To encourage pedestrian use, Fulton Street may be narrowednear the proposed park.But Richard Rosan of the Mayor >%u00bb Office of Downtown Brooklyn Development says the Fulton Ferry street narrowing project is very much alive, and that it will be supplemented with other amenities, such as landscaping and cobblestone paving. %u201c It%u2019s been stalled because of budgeting, but its definitely going to happen,%u201d he said.Councilman Fred Richmond%u2019s office has been instrumental in bringing the various developers, planners and city agencies together with representatives of the Brooklyn Heights Association, some of whose members had expressed substantial reservations about waterfront development. Richmond says he is solidly behind the development effort, and that he regards it%u2014and other exciting waterfront upgrading-as crucial to the City%u2019s vitality.contract has been drawn. He did say, however, that he had some fairly definite ideas about how he%u2019ll proceed once the plans are formalized. %u201c We%u2019d like to use the little lighthouse building on the bulkhead, for instance. It would be a great home for a river museum or a Brooklyn Bridge museum.%u201dAs to the city%u2019s plans to narrow Fulton Sreet in the Ferry area below Cadman Plaza, Werner Schwartz of the Department of Highways said the plans have been scrapped. %u201c There was some talk at one time that the area between Water and Front Streets would be narrowed to discourage motorists from using Furman Street as an alternate to the Brooklyn Queens Expressway. But there was substantial community objection to the restaurant proposal, which was spearheading development down there. 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