Month: October 2007
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Squash Blossoms
Aurora is one of Williamsburg’s best restaurants. And if you are looking for squash blossoms, there are plenty in the parks and vacant lots of the southside – the local South Asian community has them planted all over.
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Don’t Blame Me, Like Most People I Voted for
Gorethe Nobel LaureateHow’s that legacy thing working out, Bushie?
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Foreshadowing
The Firpo Building, ca. 2006 (aka, the glory days). As long as we’ve lived in Williamsburg there has been a decrepit tin-sided house on Roebling at the head of Fillmore Place. The pitched roof has been sagging for over 15 years, and the siding has been slowly peeling away all that time. To us, it…
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They’re Back…
As we predicted, Quadriad is back. Henry Wollman of Quadriad made a brief informational presentation to Community Board 1 tonight. Mr. Wollman professed his fondness for the board, and stated that the as-of-right project is being permitted now and will start construction “next week”. That is the five-story project that requires no rezoning and no…
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Gandar’s Bookstore to be Demolished!
What’s left of the building, at least. The demolition fence is up at 227 Grand Street, as seen above. What’s interesting about this site is not that it will be (yet another) finger building, nor that it will be (yet another) Karl Fisher joint. What’s worth noting here is the building’s history, dating back to…
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Town Hall
Mayor Bloomberg, looking for answers in Greenpoint. So the Mayor came to Greenpoint, and Greenpoint (mostly) behaved itself. The show was organized by North Brooklyn Development Corp., and was not open to general questions. As it was, fewer than half the planned questions were put to the Mayor. (As predicted, there were plenty of soap…
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Changes
The Mayor is coming to Greenpoint to talk about Greenpoint. As we said earlier, this is an opportunity not to be squandered. We will have the Mayor for a very brief amount of time – probably an hour or so – so this is no time for soap boxes, breast beating, grandstanding and hyperbole. Get…
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Bob Scarano Drives a Truck
Yes, it is ridiculous that a cement truck fell on a house in Greenpoint while said truck was in the process of pouring concrete in violation of a stop work order. But Bob Scarano was not driving that truck. Why not single out the contractors – they are the ones doing the shoddy construction. Why…