Author: Halden
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American Dream Party June 26
This Saturday (26 June) there will be a benefit party for “Bummer”, a large-scale sculpture that has officially been selected by the Burningman cultural committee. The benefit runs from noon to midnight, and will be at Grace Space, 840 Broadway (near the Flushing J/M/Z stop). There will be a bunch of live bands, a host…
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Stupid
Zoning RulesDevelopment Games324 Bedford Avenue. [See update, below – ed.] There is a lot of vestigal crap in the City’s zoning code, as one might expect for a document written in 1961. Its a code written for a time and a place that have long since passed. One area where this is the case is the requirements…
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That Smell
As reported elsewhere, the construction ongoing at the foot of South 5th Street is for the installation a “bladder” to hold water from large storms (like tonight’s). The idea is that the bladder would hold the large runoff from flash storms until it can be safely passed onto the sewage system. Under the current system,…
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Grand Ferry Park
As Robert posted on Curbed today, the rehabbed Grand Ferry Park has been open for about two weeks now (the opening was put off a couple of weeks to miss the Fourth of July and the huge n-ewplant-killing crowds it would bring). The renovation was funded by the New York Power Authority, as part of…
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Williamsburg Walks Week 1
Today was the first installment of Williamsburg Walk, the street closure that is not a street fair. Turnout felt light, and the oppressive heat certainly lent the afternoon a languid tone (except at the hydrants, which were very popular). Whether it was the weather or just the extra space, the afternoon lacked that manic aspect…
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Williamsburg Walks Today
Reminder: Williamsburg Walks starts today. From noon until 7pm, Bedford Avenue will closed to vehicles from Metropolitan to North 9th. Its a hot day for the inauguration of this event, but there will be cafe seating at most of the restaurants up and down Bedford. You can also beat the heat (and the crowds) by…
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Melrose Place
Photo from BushwickBK of 326 Melrose, used in here conjunction with a blog post commenting on a blog post at BushwickBK. Over at BushwickBK, Jeremy has gotten himself into a “hep of poop” – sorry, “HEP OF POOP” – over the posting of this picture. Seems the broker, one Janet Corona of Flushing, did not…
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Greenbelt Wins Building Brooklyn Award
Greenbelt, 361 Manhattan Avenue. Photo: Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce. I screwed up – in yesterday’s post on the Building Brooklyn awards, I completely missed Greenbelt in the list of award winners. So there was a north Brooklyn project worthy of being the best of Brooklyn architecture. Greenbelt is a fantastic mixed-use project on Manhattan Avenue…
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Local Campaigns
NYC elections are still more than a year off (even the primaries), but the races are definitely underway. Tuesday was the deadline for candidates to file disclosure statements with the Campaign Finance Board, and the new numbers are already posted. The 33rd Council District (David Yassky’s district, which covers Greenpoint to Cobble Hill) is one…