Month: April 2011
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City Launches Brownfield Program in Williamsburg
Mayor Bloomberg was in the neighborhood today, launching the country’s first municipally-run brownfield clean up program. The program, which targets “lightly contaminated” sites, gives developers liability protection in addition to a clean development site. The City chose 456 Grand Street, at the triangle that intersects Grand, Keap and Borinquen, and which is to be the…
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Mable’s Smokehouse
http://www.villagevoice.com/2011-04-13/restaurants/mable-s-smokehouse-we-meat-again/
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Transmitter Park Before It Was a Park
WNYC Transmitter, 1937 Painting by Alan Gordon Lorimer Source: WNYC Once upon a time, there was an actual transmitter at Transmitter Park (the park to be at the base of Greenpoint Avenue). The transmitter was for WNYC, which was then a City-owned radio station. The station still exists (AM 820, FM 93.9 and online), though…
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Let There Be Music
Brooklyn Vegan has a statement from OSA on the summer concert park series, basically saying that the show will go on. (Not that there was really any doubt about that – the concerts are popular, profitable and well beyond the jurisdiction of the local community board.) And Brooklyn365 has a similar statement from Assemblyman Joe Lentol,…
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Williamsburg Bans Music?
So, apparently threatening to cut off the hootch is a good way to pack a community board meeting. Tonight’s CB1 was certainly packed, and the press was out in full force to see what went down. NY1 was there, as was the Huffington Post and all the local press (even local press alums came out).…
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Nitehawk Cinema to Open on Metropolitan (Soon)
Nitehawk Cinema Building Photo: via Curbed Nitehawk Cinema has been in the news a bunch lately. The Journal ($$) had a piece the other day, followed by Curbed (“finally opening soon”) and now the Brooklyn Paper. The project has been development for ages (I think the residential development was originally approved as a variance prior…
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PS 84 Revisited
I am way behind on a lot of things, but high on the list is linking to this excellent Capital NY piece on the past and future of P.S. 84. Written by Greg Hanlon (an article Matt Chaban called the “first good article [he’s] read about gentrification in a while“. It covers old ground –…
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65 Commercial Street Update
Below is a copy of the letter from MTA Chair Jay Walder to Deputy Mayor Robert Steel, confirming the MTA’s acceptance of alternate sites for the Paratransit and EMS vehicles currently located at 65 Commercial Street. Of note is the MTA’s commitment to use the Maspeth Paratransit site for vehicle storage only, not as depot.…
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MTA Ready to Leave 65 Commercial
In a letter to the Mayor’s office, the MTA has finally agreed to move the operations currently housed at 65 Commercial Street. The sticking point on the move – which the MTA agreed to almost exactly 6 years ago – was the MTA’s refusal to accept the compensatory sites offered by the City. Today, the…
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Williamsburg To Go Dry?
On Tuesday, the Executive Committee of CB1 Brooklyn voted unanimously to institute a moratorium on new liquor licenses in Williamsburg, Greenpoint and the rest of North Brooklyn. The vote was a response to what the leaders of CB1 see as an over saturation of liquor licenses in the area. The Board’s Public Safety Committee, which…