Month: April 2008
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Happy Brithday, WFMU
WMFU is 50 years old today. Celebrate by downloading a podcast or listening to an archive show. And give them some money.
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Lancaster Out
As reported everywhere, Department of Buildings Commissioner Patricia Lancaster resigned today. I’ve harped repeatedly on the failings of DOB, but don’t see this as much more than blaming the messenger. As many of the commenters at City Room noted, Lancaster inherited an incredibly dysfunctional agency, and did much to turn it around. Interestingly, DOB seems…
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Grand Street Renaissance
Sodafine Photo: Sodafine Not so suddenly, Grand Street has become a thriving retail strip. The April/May 2008 issue of WG (the newish Williamsburg Greenpoint News + Arts paper) has a great article by C. C. McGurr on the retail renaissance along western Grand Street. By her count, there are 62 businesses operating on the six…
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Whither the Water Taxi?
Back in the coldest, darkest days of winter, when New York Water Taxi suspended service on its East River route, the company said that service would resume on May 1. In February NYWT pulled the water taxi dock out of Schaeffer Landing entirely. At the time, it was reported that the dock was to replaced…
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ExxonMobil Greenwashing Greenpoint?
The irony here is quite rich – ExxonMobil, the company that is (mostly) responsible for the oil plume that sits beneath Greenpoint is sonsoring today’s Go Green Earth Day celebrations at McCarren Park. The notice is very last minute, but when some local activists found out about this, they decided a protest of some sorts…
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That Explains It
Closed by Order of the Department of Health It has been noted elsewhere that Kellogg’s Diner has closed for renovations. Turns out, the closing might not be so voluntary. It seems the Department of Health happened to stop by and – surprise, surprise – found a few things amiss. So as the sticker here indicates,…
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Northside Piers Secures Financing
http://ny.therealdeal.com/articles/toll-brothers-secures-157m-for-williamsburg-project
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Dermot Buys on the Southside
http://www.brooklyneagle.com/categories/category.php?category_id=5&id=19902