Month: February 2008
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Greenway on Kent Avenue
This sounds like a very good idea – not only would it provide greenways and protected bicycle lanes, it would help slow down traffic on the Kent Avenue freeway. I’m sure the parking freepers will object, but this is something CB1 should support.
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Horseshoes and Hand Grenades
John McCain almost lost three primaries on Saturday. Luckily for him, the Republican brass in Washington state decided that it wasn’t necessary to count all of the votes.
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Finally, A Solution to Overcrowding on the L
Your fare hike at work: A new B2 bus route connecting Williamsburg and Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and Long Island City, Queens, to midtown Manhattan.
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475 Kent – People Live(d) There
Nice piece in today’s Times about the working artists at 475 Kent and the community they created.
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The Other Side of Eminent Domain
“Ah, irony,” Scott Bullock, a senior attorney with the group that fought eminent domain in the [Kelo] case. The linked article is a little disingenuous, in that Pfizer was not a party to the Kelo (the Supreme Court case that gave birth to the phrase “Eminent Domain Abuse”). But it was Pfizer’s relocation to New…
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Schaefer Dock Gone
I have heard that the water taxi dock at Shaefer Landing was removed over the weekend. Apparently, a new and smaller permanent dock will be installed in “a couple of months”. I suppose that quashes any hope of taxi service resuming any sooner than “a couple of months” from now.
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It Didn’t Really Happen There
Time Out NY has an excellent piece titled It Happened Here, an informative romp through NYC history & geography. Greenpoint’s contribution includes this entry: The ironclad Union warship the USS Monitor, which battled the Confederacy’s Merrimac to a draw in Chesapeake Bay, was built at the Continental Iron Works shipyard in Greenpoint and launched on…