Month: February 2011
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DOE School Layoffs
Last night, the Department of Education released a list of teacher layoffs [warning – Excel file] by school, district and area of study. The lists don’t say which teachers will be impacted, but you could probably read between the lines and figure out if your kid’s teacher was on the line. Overall, DOE is cutting…
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Two Northside Piers is 50% Sold
http://therealdeal.com/newyork/articles/two-northside-piers-condo-on-williamsburg-waterfront-is-50-percent-sold
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Pfizer Plant Sold
Two years after abandoning an attempt to redevelop its sprawling former manufacturing complex in Brooklyn, drug giant Pfizer announced Monday that it had reached a surprise agreement to sell a piece of that property to Acumen Capital Partners of Long Island City. Surprise move indeed. Then talk for a long time was that this site…
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Quit Your Whining and Start Shoveling
http://www.fuckedinparkslope.com/home/quit-your-whining-and-start-shoveling.html
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Kitchen Incubator
http://www.nycedc.com/ProjectsOpportunities/RFPsRFQsRFEIs/Pages/Opportunity174_PC.aspx
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Linderman Leaves the Gazette
http://aaronshortstory.blogspot.com/2011/02/linderman-leaves-gazette.html
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Photowalk: On the Williamsburg Waterfront
http://fortheloveofbrooklyn.com/archives/2011/02/photowalk-to-the-williamsburg-waterfront.html
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Fire: 13 Conselyea Street
http://www.metro.us/newyork/local/article/765772–brooklyn-blaze-caused-by-hoarding
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400 McGuinness Shelter Nixed
HELP USA and the owner of 400 McGuinness Boulevard have withdrawn their proposal for 200-bed “assessment center for homeless adults” – the shelter that the community has been up in arms about. HELP USA cited an inability to come to an “agreement regarding the operating budget for the project”.