Month: April 2010
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Misinterpreting Marty
Aaron Short must be reading a different version of Marty Markowitz’s Domino resolution. A cursory reading of Markowitz’s resolution shows that it is anything but an “enthusiastic approval“. Sure, Marty said yes, but he said with conditions. Just as the Community Board’s “disapprove with modifications” was not a complete rejection of the Domino plan, Marty’s…
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Kent Avenue = Drug Store Alley
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/realestate/commercial/skechers_ties_up_deals_fTzcLH8rSrjkUhsbhCCc0M
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Subway Ridership Down
NYC Transit released its annual ridership report, and to no one’s surprise, ridership is down across the system. Except in North Brooklyn. Of the 423 subways stations in the system, only 65 saw an increase in ridership in 2009. More than half (38) of those stations are on lines that pass through Williamsburg and Greenpoint.…
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There Goes the Neighborhood
http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/there_goes_the_neighborhood_ufkmw8dt0k6eD3j7uUuJ7M
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Brooklyn’s Killer Boulevard
http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/brooklyn/2010/04/25/2010-04-25_boros_killer_blvd_mcguinness_a_mess_deaths__study_show.html
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City Awards Greenpoint Hospital Housing Contract to Upstate Company
http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/33/18/wb_greenpointhospital_2010_04_30_bk.html?comm=1
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City Shuts Hostel, Tosses Tourists
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/city_shuts_hostel_tosses_tourists_IOLhNOG7etpo0EYmWlVUTP
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Greenpoint Hit-and-Run Victim Dies
http://www.streetsblog.org/2010/04/20/greenpoint-hit-and-run-victim-dies-mcguinness-blvd-must-be-tamed/