Author: Halden

OSA Community Committee

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Open Space Alliance is holding a community committee meeting on Monday evening.
> We are VERY EXCITED to announce this meeting for the formation of the Community Committee for the Open Space Alliance for North Brooklyn! Organized by GWAPP and others, the purpose of this meeting is to formally introduce OSA to the community and for all interested community organizations and residents to discuss the purpose of the Community Committee, ideas for how it will function, how it will be organized, etc.

Brooklyn Represent

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Sure, as a New Yorker your vote won’t change the Electoral College map. But you can make a difference in swing states without leaving Kings County. This weekend (and through election day), volunteer a bit of time to call voters in those swing states and get out the Obama vote.
Brooklyn10000 is looking for 10,000 volunteers:
> This weekend, from Saturday, Nov. 1st, until Election Day on Tuesday, Nov. 4th, Brooklyn has the power make the difference in this election.
We will be calling into the battleground states to get out the vote for Senators Obama and Biden. Brooklyn Represent.
Locally, Third Ward (Morgan and Stagg) is hosting one of the call-in sites. Hours, and the other 9 call-in locations are here.

G-W Contextual Rezoning

10/29/2008 |

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Greenpoint-Williamsburg Contextual Rezoning
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Last night City Planning and Community Board #1, in conjunction with Council Members Yassky and Reyna, held an informational session on the proposed contextual rezoning of 175 blocks in Greenpoint & Williamsburg. As in previous rezonings (Grand Street in 2008, Northside in 2005), the aim of the zoning is to limit building heights to the four to five story range (and thereby eliminate finger buildings).
There is another informational session this evening at Greenpoint Savings Bank on Manhattan Avenue. The formal public review is expected to begin in January or February.



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Shooting Pool

Via Williamsburg is Dead, I came across Billiardsburg.com, a web site devoted to bars with pool tables in 11211-land. Once upon a time, kids, the only pool table in the neighborhood was at Turkey’s Nest. And it was a 6′ table at that, crammed into a corner, with much using of short cues required. As a result, we spent a lot of time at places like Mona’s or McGovern’s. So it was great news in 1996 or so when Sweetwater’s, and its pool table, opened.
Now I see there are more than two dozen tables within a short walk from home.
Not that I’m getting old or anything.
(FWIW, I prefer the table at the Levee.)