Author: Halden
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291 Bedford Avenue
291 Bedford Avenue Rosenbaum Design Group, Architects This building has been going up on the corner of South 1st and Bedford for some months now (one of many green shoots on the Southside). Textbook example of how a small building can be completely out of context. Not surprising given the architect’s speciality – shopping centers…
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Tonight: The Origin of Paper
If you are looking for something interesting to do on a rainy December evening, head on down to the foot of Grand Street and check out the opening at the International Museum of Paper. The museum is displaying its enormous collection of Chinese handmade papers and unusual artifacts pertaining to how papermaking was invented in…
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Grand Street Adventure
Over the past few years, Grand Street west of the BQE has evolved into a great shopping and eating district. Which makes sense, since Grand Street has been the commercial core of Williamsburg going back to its village days in the 1820s. Starting tomorrow night, the merchants on Grand Street will give you even more…
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December 11: OSA Silent Auction and Benefit
NAG has some really great items on its silent auction list (tonight!). But if art or open space is more your thing, check out OSA’s silent auction going on now at BraveBrooklyn. (Better yet, bid at both auctions – they both support good local causes.) The auction features work donated by artists Fred Tomaselli, Richard…
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Reminder: NAG Party Thursday Night
A quick reminder that this Thursday (10 December) from 7 to 10 pm there is a benefit for NAG (Neighbors Allied for Good Growth – the second G is silent) at the Woods on South 4th Street. No cover, but donations are welcome. There will be plenty of booze, and a silent auction featuring goodies…
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McCarren Pool Groundbreaking
l to r: Assembly Member Joe Lentol; Marty Markowitz; Mike Bloomberg; Brooklyn Parks Commissioner Jules Spiegel; NYC Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe; David Yassky; and OSA’s Stephanie Thayer. Photo: BP Markowitz’s office Progress at McCarren yesterday – Mayor Bloomberg and others “broke ground” on the renovation of the McCarren Park Pool (work has been underway for…
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Rose Developer is “Bankrupt”
I use quotes in the headline here because contrary to the Brooklyn Paper’s headline, it’s not Isack Rosenberg himself who is bankrupt, but rather one of his other development projects. Rosenberg is trying to raise money by seekign a city rezoning of his lumber yard site from manufacturing to residential — a move that would…
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11211 Tech Note
I’ve recently upgraded the blogging software that keeps this running, and it has not been without hitches. One of those, I have been informed, is that the site looks worse than ever on Internet Explorer. Since I a) don’t use Windows very often and b) use IE even less often, I hadn’t noticed. But I…