Author: Halden
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North Brooklyn Story Project Benefit Concert
April 28th at Union Pool, the North Brooklyn Story Project will be hosting a benefit concert to help raise funds for their oral history project. The line up includes The Blue Album Group, Rebecca Schiffman, and The Roulettes. Williamsburg is Dead has the full run down.
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Condemned Property: Slick’s Bikes
Photo: Dave G. Another piece of Williamsburg’s character was carted away today. Reader Dave G. passed on these photos of Slick’s bikes tagged for removal by the Department of Sanitation. Without tags and inspection stickers (and seats, controls, tail lights, etc.), the bikes were, of course, illegal. The bikes also seem to have become a…
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Thursday: NAG Town Hall Meeting
NAG is holding a town hall meeting tomorrow night (26 March) to give an update on its 2009 organizing agenda. I’ve posted a few items on one of these organizing issues, the North Brooklyn Story Project oral history project. Other organizing issues are affordable housing, transportation and improving open space and access to the waterfront…
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For Rent II: Finger
Another building to get a for rent sign is the Finger Building on North 7th. It will be interesting to see what the new owners have planned for this location (other than 20,000 square feet of retail opportunities).
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For Rent I: Slick’s
About a month or so ago, a for rent sign went up in the window of Slick’s old shop. Nice location, nice building and a nice corner storefront.
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Story Project Training
The North Brooklyn Story Project is a project of NAG’s Community Character working group. This group is putting together an oral history project, and will be offering a free training session for volunteers this Saturday morning at the Brooklyn Historical Society. If you are interested in being an interviewer for this project and would like…
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Guerilla Gardens
In an effort to beautify the growing developer blight in Williamsburg and Greenpoint, NAG’s Open Space working group is starting a Guerilla Gardening campaign. On Saturday the Open Space working group will hold a workshop to create seed balls, a land reclamation strategy for derelict, neglected and abandoned land. Volunteers are invited to help the…
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Northside Festival
The L Magazine has just announced that it is staging a Northside Festival. The fist-annual Northside Festival will run from June 11 to June 14, and is being promoted as a four-day celebration of the independent music and art scene that thrives in Williamsburg and Greenpoint.