Month: August 2007
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Baby steps at DOB
According to an article in today’s Post, the stepped-up DOB oversight concerns sitework and excavation only, which is great, but only goes so far. It certainly does not cover all of the other bad construction practices in the neighborhood, like unsafe construction sites and illegal work on the weekends.
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Tommy sub
Gowanus Lounge has lots of coverage of Duke Riley’s Red Hook submarine…. After speaking with a reporter briefly, Bushnell said, “I’m super-drunk so I want to stop talking.”
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More sugar history
Tom Gilbert’s promised two-part series on the sordid history of Domino Sugar turns out to be a three-part series. Part two is here, though there not much there.
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Jamaica Bay
As part of the relocation of the Newtown Creek sewage plant’s sludge barge from the East River to the Creek, the City will be filling in a portion of the Creek. This will result in a loss of wetlands at Newtown Creek, which the City proposes to remediate by creating new wetlands in Jamaica Bay.Somehow,…
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Whipping Boy at the Modern
Despite what the Post says, DOB did not slap Scarano with a stop work order for the Modern – they slapped the SWO on the owner and his contractors…. And if all the posts at GL are any indication, neither the developer nor the contractor give a shit.(And no, this is not an apologia for…
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Water Taxi
The Real Deal: Some developers pay water taxi operators annual subsidies to guarantee they get docking barges and stops. I love the water taxi from Schaeffer Landing (it sure beats the L train), but lately its been unreliable as hell. Just last night the boat was 25 minutes late – the boat that finally showed…