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I certainly hope not.

According the press release in my inbox, Williamsburg is still trendy (take that, Bushwick). Or at least the PR flack for a new pizza place thinks so: “Vertuccio’s a new Italian brick oven pizzeria opens this week on popular McCarren Park in trendy Wiliamsburg, Brooklyn”.

David Paterson – ineffective, unpopular, and now unwanted.

Short on the recount in the 34th. I had heard (as of yesterday) that Reyna had gained 20 or so votes off of the paper ballots.

Pathetic.

Real Reform Brooklyn takes stock of the Levin campaign:

You are to be personally credited with running an honorable campaign. You never went negative. You never took a shot below the belt.

Very true. Also, some very good suggestions for Councilmember Levin (I particularly like #1 – don’t move out of Greenpoint).

And I hope RealReformBrooklyn is not going to go away now that the primary is over.

Bushwick’s farmers’ market continues to grow.

Support it.

The purpose of having elected officials, as opposed to a self-perpetuating oligarchy like China, ought to be to enhance accountability.

Yglesias starts off well, but his suggestion that we dispatch with borough-level elected positions and rely instead on a unicameral state legislature would be a disaster for NYC.

Can’t embed the audio, so you’ll have to wander over to TMZ. It’s worth a trip, though – a very funny interview.

Is there a newspaper or blog in the country that has not written an article on Greenpoint’s rooftop farm? Here, the Detroit News weighs in (and by extension, so do I).