Author: Halden
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Waiting for the Water Taxi
Yes, we’re recycling this image, but its the same old story. For those of us who have been waiting for July, and the return of NY Water Taxi’s East River Service, life continues to be a good news/bad news kind of thing. The good news? As of today (30 June), NYWT has supposedly resumed its…
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Trouble Brewing
The most recent newsletter of the Center for an Urban Future has an article [that’s a pdf] by Steve Hindy, the founder of Brooklyn Brewery, bemoaning the plight of small manufacturers like his. As Hindy points out, the squeeze of rezonings, gentrification and legal non-manufacturing uses in manufacturing zones (such as hotels) is driving up…
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Williamsburg Walks
Williamsburg Walks* – the proposal to close down a stretch of Bedford Avenue for 4 Saturdays this summer – looks as if it is going to happen. The proposal is to make Bedford from North 3rd to North 9th pedestrian only starting on 19 July and for the three Saturdays following. Stores and restaurants will…
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Greenpoint/Williamsburg Waterfront: Emerging Development
This Friday, the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects is holding a panel discussion on the Greenpoint/Williamsburg waterfront rezoning. In addition to the star-studded line up of speakers below, the panel includes Howard Slatkin of City Planning and a representative of the Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance. The Greenpoint/ Williamsburg Waterfront: Emerging Development Friday,…
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Nate Kensinger at BPL
Brooklyn Public Library is running an exhibit of photographs by Nathan Kensinger documenting the fast-eroding industrial landscape of Brooklyn’s waterfront. Coincidentally (or not), Kensinger’s show opens on the same day that Ikea’s Red Hook store opens (the latter was responsible for the loss of the Todd Shipyard graving dock and is next door to the…
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Relish Loses Some Green
Photo: rajmeanswell Walking down Metropolitan this morning I noticed a sidewalk shed had gone up in front of the clover-filled empty lot that has served as Relish’s lawn for many years now. Uh oh. Took a look through a hole in the fence, and sure enough, there was a pile of steel. Checked out the…
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Digester Egg Lighting Ceremony
From the inbox: Please join the Newtown Creek Monitoring Committee & DEP for the Digester Egg lighting ceremony. Tonight. June 3, 2008, 8 p.m. Newtown Creek Wastewater Pollution Control Plant Nature Walk (entrance gate located at Provost St & Paidge Ave. ) Greenpoint, Brooklyn 11222 Which gives me a good excuse to post this picture…
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Walkscore
Walkscore is a pretty nifty website that calculates how “walkable” your neighborhood is. On a scale of 0 to 100, I come out as an 88 – not really a surprise, given that we are in the middle of New York City (my office gets a 100, but most of the places I could walk…
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Fat City
People in Williamsburg and Bushwick are, on average, more overweight and more obese than the citywide population. This has resulted in much snark on the interweb about skinny hipsters, but the problem is real, and likely tied in to the socioeconomic realities of our neighborhoods. The report, “Keeping Track of New York City’s Children”, was…