Author: Halden
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Summerscreen
The line up of movies at McCarren this summer includes Rushmore, Virgin Suicides and Mean Streets (featuring New York the way it was). via Williamsburg is Dead
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Rose Plaza
Curbed has dug up some Gene Kaufman renderings of the proposed Rose Plaza project at the Certified Lumber site (just south of Schaefer Landing). As one commenter noted, this design won’t be winning anyone the Pritzker prize. In the silver lining department, the application at City Planning was filed by Gruzen Samton Architects. Either Kaufman…
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207 Grand
207 Grand Street (proposed), via Gowanus Lounge. Via Curbed and GL, a rendering has surfaced of a proposed commercial building at 207 Grand Street (northwest corner of Driggs). The project is build to suit, which basically means nothing will get built unless a retail tenant comes along. Still, its interesting to see that retail is…
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School Overcrowding
Today’s Daily News has a piece on overcrowded Brooklyn schools and the slow response of the Department of Education. The article includes these nuggets of local interest: – In Williamsburg and Greenpoint, the City Planning Commission projects a general population increase of 12.5% from 2000 to 2010 because of thousands of new apartments being built.…
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Save the G Rally
Via Save the G, word of another chance to rally in support of our crosstown local tomorrow evening. Brooklyn Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries is organizing a G train advocacy kick-off rally: Wednesday, May 21 at 6:30 p.m. at Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church 85 S. Oxford Street (between Fulton St. and Lafayette Ave.) Call the Assemblyman’s district…
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July?
The good news/bad news on the water taxi keeps rolling in. The latest good news (via this press release) is that the City Council is funding a new water taxi service between Far Rockaway and Lower Manhattan, with service starting May 12. On the North Brooklyn front, the City has secured federal funds to build…
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Engine 212 ≠ Luxury Condos
Engine 212 Photo: jUSTINYC This piece of news slipped quietly under the radar. According to the Brooklyn Eagle, NYC’s Economic Development Corporation has awarded the former Engine 212 site to the People’s Firehouse and NAG. The groups will invest an “estimated $1.3 million in the redevelopment of the Wythe Avenue site into the Northside Town…
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Welcome Home
From the 475Kent.com blog: At 3pm the sprinklers passed the hydrostatic test mandated by DOB and FDNY. The vacate is lifted as of 4pm. Hooray! We are back thanks not only to the huge amount of work by building residents and owners but by city agencies and electeds especially Councilman David Yassky, Assemblymen Joe Lentol…
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PSA: Lost Cat
If either of you have seen this gray tiger cat in the vicinity of Hooper between South 2nd and South 3rd Streets, please call 646-620-5702. He (or she) went missing on Sunday, and his (or her) owner is anxious to have him (or her) back. I don’t know what name he (or she)He answers to…
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New-Look Gowanus Lounge
Gowanus Lounge has moved away from Blogger and set up with a newly designed site with their very own domain. In addition to the new domain name (be sure to update your feed reader), the site now boasts a masthead full of correspondents and photographers (most of whom we have all come to know over…