Month: December 2009
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War of the Roses
http://www.yournabe.com/articles/2009/12/08/brooklyn/courier_frontpage_martyrose.txt
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McCarren Pool Groundbreaking
l to r: Assembly Member Joe Lentol; Marty Markowitz; Mike Bloomberg; Brooklyn Parks Commissioner Jules Spiegel; NYC Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe; David Yassky; and OSA’s Stephanie Thayer. Photo: BP Markowitz’s office Progress at McCarren yesterday – Mayor Bloomberg and others “broke ground” on the renovation of the McCarren Park Pool (work has been underway for…
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Rezoning of Broadway Triangle Advances
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/07/rezoning-of-brooklyns-broadway-triangle-advances/
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Rose Developer is “Bankrupt”
I use quotes in the headline here because contrary to the Brooklyn Paper’s headline, it’s not Isack Rosenberg himself who is bankrupt, but rather one of his other development projects. Rosenberg is trying to raise money by seekign a city rezoning of his lumber yard site from manufacturing to residential — a move that would…
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11211 Tech Note
I’ve recently upgraded the blogging software that keeps this running, and it has not been without hitches. One of those, I have been informed, is that the site looks worse than ever on Internet Explorer. Since I a) don’t use Windows very often and b) use IE even less often, I hadn’t noticed. But I…
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City Intensifies Bid to Wrest Control of Brooklyn Bridge Park from State
http://www.nydailynews.com/real_estate/2009/12/07/2009-12-07_55m_plan_for_bklyn_park.html
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‘Zero Energy’ Building Coming to Red Hook
http://aviewfromthehook.blogspot.com/2009/12/nycs-first-zero-energy-building-coming.html
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20 Bayard Files for Bankruptcy
http://therealdeal.com/newyork/articles/karl-fisher-designed-20-bayard-condo-in-williamsburg-files-for-chapter-11