Month: May 2008
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See the Big Apple Any Way You’d Like it Aboard New York Water Taxi
http://www.etravelblackboardasia.com/article.asp?id=53171&nav=21
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Florent
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/21/dining/21florent.html?ex=1369108800&en=4ac97ff8fc5fe1e7&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink
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Summerscreen
The line up of movies at McCarren this summer includes Rushmore, Virgin Suicides and Mean Streets (featuring New York the way it was). via Williamsburg is Dead
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Rose Plaza
Curbed has dug up some Gene Kaufman renderings of the proposed Rose Plaza project at the Certified Lumber site (just south of Schaefer Landing). As one commenter noted, this design won’t be winning anyone the Pritzker prize. In the silver lining department, the application at City Planning was filed by Gruzen Samton Architects. Either Kaufman…
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Kennedy Has Malignant Brain Tumor
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080520/ap_on_go_co/kennedy;_ylt=Aiuhte3oeoFQTfhe6dTnNQys0NUE
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207 Grand
207 Grand Street (proposed), via Gowanus Lounge. Via Curbed and GL, a rendering has surfaced of a proposed commercial building at 207 Grand Street (northwest corner of Driggs). The project is build to suit, which basically means nothing will get built unless a retail tenant comes along. Still, its interesting to see that retail is…
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School Overcrowding
Today’s Daily News has a piece on overcrowded Brooklyn schools and the slow response of the Department of Education. The article includes these nuggets of local interest: – In Williamsburg and Greenpoint, the City Planning Commission projects a general population increase of 12.5% from 2000 to 2010 because of thousands of new apartments being built.…
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Save the G Rally
Via Save the G, word of another chance to rally in support of our crosstown local tomorrow evening. Brooklyn Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries is organizing a G train advocacy kick-off rally: Wednesday, May 21 at 6:30 p.m. at Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church 85 S. Oxford Street (between Fulton St. and Lafayette Ave.) Call the Assemblyman’s district…
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This Would Get Me To Drink Starbucks Coffee
http://gawker.com/388550/slutty-starbucks-logo-offends-crazies
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McCain Wins Indiana
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/07/us/politics/07repubs.html?ex=1367899200&en=716e2b2bc6e738fe&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink