Author: Halden
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Bushwick Inlet Follow Up
Here are some press links from yesterday’s Bushwick Inlet groundbreaking: North Brooklyn Now a Little Bit Optimistic About Promised Parks [Observer/NY Future Initiative] Williamsburg Park Under Way, But Full Vision Still Unmet [Metro] Ground Breaks on New Brooklyn Waterfront Park [WNYC] City Breaks Ground on Bushwick Inlet Park [NY1] City Breaks Ground on a 28-acre…
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Bushwick Inlet Ground Breaking
(left to right) Steve Hindy, chair, Open Space Alliance for North Brooklyn (OSA); Council Member David Yassky; Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe; Mayor Michael Bloomberg; BP Markowitz; Assembly Member Joseph Lentol Photo: Mayor’s Office As promised, the City started work on the soccer field portion of Bushwick Inlet Park in June. Presumably that involved some breaking…
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More Rosenwach
Walked by Rosenwach this morning, and am happy to report that the damage is surprisingly limited. A lot of charred wood, but a lot that didn’t burn. I suspect this was because a lot of the wood was bundled in pallets and (thanks to FDNY) water got onto the fire pretty quickly. This is the…
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UPDATE: Rosenwach Fire
photo: everyplace on flickr Regarding the fire last night at Rosenwach, I have heard via a third party that a resident of the loft building across the street said that the fire was started by fireworks – white kids in their 20s shooting Roman candles off near Rosenwach, and that some of those fireworks landed…
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Fire at Rosenwach
Around 9:00 tonight Rosenwach Tanks (makers of the ubiquitous rooftop water tanks) caught on fire. It was an intense fire, and an hour later flames could still be seen leaping up from the building at the corner of North 9th and Wythe. A lot of fire trucks were on scene, along with police for crowd…
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Tour de France 2009
Prologue tomorrow morning, 9:30 local time. Great course this year – four countries plus the prologue in Monaco, stopover in Barcelona, and a finish at Mont Ventoux the night before the ride into Paris. And, it seems as though there is less of flat stages up front (only four days of flats before the Pyrenees).
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Soccer Field of Dreams
As the Gazette reports, construction has finally begun on a portion of Bushwick Inlet Park. As I noted previously (and as originally reported by NAG), in May the City upped its commitment to building out some of the promised area parks. Here’s a rundown and status check of what the City said in May: Manhattan…
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City Planning Approves Greenpoint-Williamsburg Rezoning
The City Planning Commission held a public meeting on Wednesday and advanced two important Greenpoint-Williamsburg land use actions. The biggest was the approval [pdf] of the Greenpoint-Williamsburg Contextual Rezoning. The 175-block rezoning now moves on to the City Council, which will hopefully approve it by the end of July. Which means that we are about…