Month: March 2009
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A Scrappy Local Paper Ponders its New Parent
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/22/nyregion/thecity/22murd.html
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Story Project Training
The North Brooklyn Story Project is a project of NAG’s Community Character working group. This group is putting together an oral history project, and will be offering a free training session for volunteers this Saturday morning at the Brooklyn Historical Society. If you are interested in being an interviewer for this project and would like…
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Guerilla Gardens
In an effort to beautify the growing developer blight in Williamsburg and Greenpoint, NAG’s Open Space working group is starting a Guerilla Gardening campaign. On Saturday the Open Space working group will hold a workshop to create seed balls, a land reclamation strategy for derelict, neglected and abandoned land. Volunteers are invited to help the…
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Best Western Adds Hotels
http://www.brooklyneagle.com/categories/category.php?category_id=5&id=27043
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Marty Markowitz ‘Reinvented’ Position
http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/brooklyn/2009/03/15/2009-03-15_marty_markowitz_reinvented_position_as_b.html
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Northside Festival
The L Magazine has just announced that it is staging a Northside Festival. The fist-annual Northside Festival will run from June 11 to June 14, and is being promoted as a four-day celebration of the independent music and art scene that thrives in Williamsburg and Greenpoint.
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Most BYOB Restaurants Are Breaking the Law
http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20090313/SMALLBIZ/903139971
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Frank Joins Chorus on A.I.G. Bonus Outrage
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/16/rep-frank-joins-chorus-on-aig-bonus-outrage/