Author: Halden
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Water Taxi to Suspend Service
Original photo: Gowanus Lounge The New York Water Taxi notified its customers today that is suspending East River service effective 1 January 2008. Commuter service will not resume until 1 May 2008. In a flyer handed out to patrons this evening, NYWT cited noted that it “broke even during the spring, summer and fall when…
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Beauty Pageant
Photo: sps The Landmarks Preservation Commission officially designated [pdf] the Dumbo historic today. Coming in the final LPC hearing of the year, this closes out what has turned out to be a banner year for the oft-maligned industrial heritage of the city. In addition to this designation, LPC has also designated the Domino Sugar Refinery,…
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BSA Allows Finger Building to Proceed
I just learned that the BSA has approved the application to resume construction at 144 North 8th Street (the Finger Building). BSA’s decision was based on a letter from DOB Deputy Counsel Felicia Miller, stating in part: the permit issued in connection with Job # 301784399 for a 16 story building was a validly issued…
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Some Changes
Things look different here (hopefully for the better), but most of the content and workings are the same. The goal of the redesign was to simplify the design and focus on the content as exclusively as possible. The only real difference in terms of usage is that the linked entries now have the permalink icon…
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Ouch
When I linked to TRE’s Karl Fisher interview a few days ago, I said: unfortunately, with the exception of 20 Bayard Street, just about every Fischer project is a box devoid of curved lines, angled lines, and, dare we say it, flair; which is probably for the better, as 20 Bayard is the worst of…
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Oops
The good news is that 227 Grand Street was going to be demolished anyhow. Unfortunately, gravity reared its ugly head before the demo crew could get to that end of the building. This is all part of the Gandar’s demolition at the corner of Grand and Driggs (where a 14-story condo is proposed – that’s…
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Construction Accidents Fall
The Oberserver reported today that DOB fatalities and accidents resulting in injury are down for the year to date. That is good news, indeed (though as the Commissioner herself reminds us, one fatality is one too many). Before everyone declares victory, let’s keep in mind that the data sets are pretty small. Scaffold fatalities, for…
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District 14 School Workshops
Seems that we are on a school kick lately. We received the following regarding a kickoff meeting for a series of workshops on local schools: The District 14 Community Education Council (CEC) and the Education Committee of Community Board #1 are planning to initiate a series of roundtable workshops to evaluate and support the needs…
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Evan Thies Makes it Official
Evan Thies has officially thrown his hat into the ring for David Yassky’s City Council seat in 2009 (Yassky is running for Brooklyn Borough President, as he is prevented by term limits from running for Council again). Evan, who served as Yassky’s chief of staff for five years, officially announced his candidacy today, although it…
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More Schooling
P.S. 196, photo credit: malarchie In addition to releasing letter grades for all city schools, the Department of Education has also released numerical scores1, thus allowing a direct assessment of how each school in District 14 (Greenpoint & Williamsburg, and picking up bits and pieces of Bushwick, Bed Stuy and Clinton Hill) compares to schools…