Author: Halden
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SATURDAY: Bushwick Inlet Park Fundraiser
The Diamond Bar is sponsoring a fundraiser by Friends of Bushwick Inlet Park and NAG this Saturday afternoon. Proceeds from every beer and bratwurst you buy will go to paying for the greening of Kent Avenue/Franklin Street in front of what should be (and hopefully someday will be) a park, but is now a weed-strewn…
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How Much Profit at Domino?
Just how much money are the Domino developers making off of their project? No one knows, and CPCR, the lead developer of Domino has refused to say. But the Greenpoint Star’s Dan Bush has found an answer. And if the numbers he has dug up are remotely based in reality, that answer is a lot.…
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Misinterpreting Marty
Aaron Short must be reading a different version of Marty Markowitz’s Domino resolution. A cursory reading of Markowitz’s resolution shows that it is anything but an “enthusiastic approval“. Sure, Marty said yes, but he said with conditions. Just as the Community Board’s “disapprove with modifications” was not a complete rejection of the Domino plan, Marty’s…
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Subway Ridership Down
NYC Transit released its annual ridership report, and to no one’s surprise, ridership is down across the system. Except in North Brooklyn. Of the 423 subways stations in the system, only 65 saw an increase in ridership in 2009. More than half (38) of those stations are on lines that pass through Williamsburg and Greenpoint.…
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Rose Plaza Recap
Rose Plaza, in the papers: Council Approves Big Billyburg Project [Crain’s] Rose Plaza Ofers 30% Affordable Housing, Gets City Council OK [Brooklyn Eagle] More ‘Affordable’ Williamsburg Tower Gets Council OK [Daily News] Council Approves Rose Plaza [Observer] Rose in Full Bloom! Levin and Developer Ink Deal on Eve of Council Vote [Brooklyn Paper]
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Rose Plaza Deal Reached
The Brooklyn Paper is reporting this morning that a deal has been reached on the Rose Plaza development. The final deal is very much along the lines of what I intimated last night – 30% affordable housing, 74 apartments at 3 and 4 bedrooms, and all of those larger, family-sized, apartments at below-market rates1. The…
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1940s New York in Living Color
Photo: citynoise.org Citynoise.org has a lot more here, here, here, and here.
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The Census (Again)
Seems like everyone is having fun with the whole hipsters-hate-the-census meme – even NPR got into the act over the weekend. The funny thing is, “Williamsburg” as the City is defining it pretty much equals Hasidic South Williamsburg. Not that the hipsters are doing that well – the response rate for most of North Brooklyn…
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Conover Cottages
Down in Red Hook, one of my favorite anachronisms may not go the way of the condo: Tina Fallon, a broker with Realty Collective, a Red Hook-based real estate company, said she came up with the idea for a design competition to restore the cottages in hopes of saving them so that they won’t be…
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The Census
According to Gothamist, Brooklyn has the lowest response rate for filling out Census forms, and Williamsburg is dead-ass last in the borough. This is not good. You’ve heard it all before, but the census is used to determine all sorts of things for the next 10 years. If Williamsburg’s response rate remains low, Williamsburg will…