Month: June 2010
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Williamsburg Tenants Win Yearlong Fight For Their Homes
http://brooklyn.ny1.com/content/top_stories/120371/williamsburg-tenants-win-yearlong-fight-for-their-homes
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Lost City: Goodbye to All That
Brooks of Sheffield has decided to shut down his excellent blog, Lost City. A shame, because his was one of the better written, better researched blogs on ephemeral New York. And he’s not going out on an optimistic note: Most of the City is lost after all — the good parts, anyway… It’s like writing…
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Occupied: 400 Bedford
Judging by the bikes on the balconies, 400 Bedford Avenue, the new building going up right next to the Williamsburg Bridge is now open for business. Pretty impressive, considering they started construction less than 18 months (a year ago the steel was just starting to go up).
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The Seven Worst Outdoor Drinking Spots in New York City
http://ny.eater.com/archives/2010/06/the_worst_outdoor_drinking_spots_in_new_york_city.php
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Absolut Ethics
The Time’s Week in Review section had a piece on the fallout from the “viral” marketing campaign to pay local bloggers to promote Absolut’s new Brooklyn brand of vodka. In case you missed it (and you probably did), the whole thing spilled over after the latest Brooklyn Blogfest, when some people took exception to the…
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Vandals Attack BP Station in Williamsburg
http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/33/25/wb_as_vandalizedbp_2010_06_18_bk.html
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Uncovered: 142 North 1st Street
For the past year or two, the nondescript garage on North 1st between Berry and Bedford has been under renovation. A few months ago, the work revealed something a bit more descript – the ghosts of an old city health clinic. The clinic was constructed in 1938 on the site of what was the village…
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Brooklyn Concert Series Finds a Fan in Senate
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/05/arts/music/05waterfront.html