Brooklyn WTS may be leaving very soon now!
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Gayle
oops
(can someone print this out,,I can't seem to copy & paste over - thx)
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3Mozzies
High-rise foes seek 'Witness' protection
The Jehovah’s Witnesses could answer the prayers of locals fighting to keep more high-rise condos out of Brooklyn Bridge Park.
During a closed-door session at Borough Hall yesterday, some civic leaders and elected officials discussed having the city revise the waterfront park’s project plan to include dozens of DUMBO and Brooklyn Heights properties that the religious group has put up for sale.
"There’s a growing sentiment that the Jehovah’s Witnesses buildings are the magic bullet to keep more housing out of the park," said Paul Nelson, Assemblywoman Joan Millman’s chief of staff and a member of the city board overseeing the park’s development.
The Witnesses buildings near the park’s borders could serve as a substitute for constructing new high-rise condos within the park at John Street in DUMBO and by Pier 6 in Brooklyn Heights, while still helping offset park maintenance costs.
Brooklyn Heights activist Tony Manheim – who is leading this charge — said the city should buy the Witnesses buildings, convert them into luxury condos and then put tax revenues from the sales toward the park’s anticipated $16.1 million annual maintenance costs.
The city and the Witnesses declined comment yesterday, but the city has said it is committed to investigating alternatives to building new condos within the park.
Brooklyn Bridge Park has been a political hot potato since project planners announced in 2004 that more than 1,200 luxury condos would have to be included to help fund the 85-acre project’s maintenance budget.
Only one high-rise offering 440 luxury units has been built. That Furman Street site is a former Jehovah’s Witnesses book plant.
The religious group sold it for $205 million in 2004 to a state-selected developer –- more than 50 times what it paid for the 14-story building in 1983.
The Witnesses are planning a mass exodus out of its longtime Brooklyn Heights/DUMBO base and are relocating to new digs in Warwick, NY.
Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, the Witnesses’ publishing arm, set up shop in Brooklyn nearly a century ago and greatly expanded its holdings there in the 1980s and 1990s. Today, it owns 30 meticulously kept buildings and three lots worth hundreds of millions of dollars in the two affluent neighborhoods.
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White Dove
Sounds like the Mormons' gorgeous temples, or whatever they call them.
It is definately a money making "religion."
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OnTheWayOut
If they would just "take the money and run," RUN AWAY that is, never to return.....
......I would help them pack.
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Gill
It appears that they have been 'on the make' and ready to run off with the money for a little while now.
It's funny that we are approaching 2011, not so long till Christ becomes 100 years overdue, the 'group study' once spouted as the most important meeting is GONE, and the emphasis on money, money, money is greater than ever.
I notice a certain disheartened attitude in my parents and their friends as they realise that Armageddon did not come, well not in the way they expected, the Society wriggles like a worm on a hook and in an embarrassing fashion, and many of them have no pension and are struggling to survive from day to day.
I expect, at any time, to hear that the Borg has had to go into 'hiding' and take its money with it due to 'Persecution'.
It will be interesting to watch the WT folding its operation and making a run for it while the hangers on continue in their own little way playing 'stasi' informer games on eachother with less and less people to 'inform to'!
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wobble
The buildings in Warwick and nearby are still DUMBO buildings, look at the inmates !
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Farkel
:The Jehovah’s Witnesses could answer the prayers of locals fighting to keep more high-rise condos out of Brooklyn Bridge Park.
Jehovah FINALLY answered prayers for "his" witnessess. He answered ALL the prayers of those wishing dubs to get the hell out of Brooklyn and never come back!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Farkel
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Heartofaboy
A letter was read at the SM last night saying the borg wants congregations to give all the money in their congregation accounts to the them as they would be able to make better use of it rather than letting the money sit with the banks.
The borg would give interest, no % rate mentioned & that the congregations could decide to donate that interest back to the borg if they wanted.
The funds are available for the congregation any time they need them.