Author: Halden
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When Parents Scream Against Ice Cream
“there goes the icy” Photo: Shira Golding on flickr Parents calling 311 on the icy man? It’s too fucking hot for this crap – just say no to your kids and let the rest of us enjoy our coconut icies.
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Kent Repaving Starts
Kent Avenue, stripped. In comments, reader JJ has a front-line report on the Kent Avenue repaving, which (as promised) started yesterday evening: The transformation of Kent Ave. started last night. And kept me up most of the night as DOT crews tore up the asphalt between Broadway and S. 7th. Thank God! Based on the…
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34th Council Debate
I was going to do a post echoing Aaron Short’s call for the candidates for the 34th Council seat to get together and have a debate already (a plea I made before). This evening, my prayers were answered – Churches United for Fair Housing is putting on a debate on Monday August 31st. Good for…
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34th Council District Forum Cancelled
Town Square Inc. had scheduled a forum for the candidates of the 34th council district fior tomorrow evening. Unfortunately, two of the three candidates refused to appear, so the event was cancelled. So who was the one candidate willing to appear at the only public candidates’ event in the 34th?? UPDATE: As noted in the…
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889 Broadway
889 Broadway Photo: PropertyShark NY1 reported earlier in the week that DOB had issued a vacate order for an illegal conversion on Broadway in Bushwick, but since they didn’t include an address, it was hard to follow up. Today, BushwickBK reported that the building was 889 Broadway, which led me to this more detailed report…
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Biviano Podcast
There is a little over a month until the Democratic primary, so expect a flurry of appearances, mailers, phone calls and every other type of outreach from your candidates. The latest is a live podcast (can a podcast be live?) by Doug Biviano. If I understand the press release, you can watch live at Biviano’s…
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Town Square Comptroller Forum
Town Square is hosting a forum for the four Comptroller candidates tomorrow evening in East River State Park. So far, three of the four have confirmed (Melinda?). Date: Thursday, August 6th Time: 6 p.m. Location: East River State Park
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Short Take on OSA
Clearly I’m catching up with what happened while I was away. Luckily, Aaron Short is catching up after his 10th reunion, so I’m just going to keep linking to him. This time on OSA – Aaron authored a three part series on OSA in the Courier, which ended up finding a lot of smoke but…
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NAG Candidates Forum Recap
Aaron Short has an insightful post recapping last week’s candidate forum for the 33rd Council District (and handicapping the state of the race today). Aaron also helpfully links to all the other press coverage on the debate. I wasn’t there, but reading those press accounts (including Aaron’s in the Courier), one would think that Doug…
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Broadway Triangle Community Coalition Plan
The Broadway Triangle Community Coalition has taken the PowerPoint for its Pratt plan (which I linked to before) and set it to music. I still think the plan itself (and the one or two plans BTCC had before that) suffers from a fatal flaw – its just too damn big. I know in the end…