SEIU Local 32BJ is calling on the ex-basketball star to give better health benefits to workers at the luxury condominium building he owns in Williamsburg [emphasis added].
Canyon-Johnson (Magic Johnson’s investment fund) is an investor an investor in the Williamsburgh Savings Bank tower in Downtown Brooklyn.
(Since corrected in Crain’s online version.)
So says D.C.’s paper of record.
As to why the government should be subsidizing home builders when there is an oversupply of houses, [Toll] said the country needed the construction jobs.
Clearly the best way to counteract the precipitous decline in demand for housing is to continue to increase the supply of housing.
In North Carolina.
Welcome to the Williamsburg of the South.
The latest delay in the rebuilding of the Kosciuszko Bridge – Native American grave sites (or the potential thereof).
Scenes from the marathon:
> Of all the neighborhoods we raced through, Green Point [sic] and Williamsburg, both in Brooklyn, kept us escorts the busiest. Here, residents seemed to be under the false impression that the roads had been closed for their convenience, and walked into the middle of the road without as much as a glance to check for traffic.
Yep, that sounds like us.
More on the contextual rezoning of Greenpoint and Williamsburg, this time from the Brooklyn Paper.
The City and the State Department of Environmental Conservation have reached an agreement on upgrading the Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant (funny, I thought it *was* in mid-upgrade). The agreement provides $10 million for “community environmental benefit projects”, and includes an agreement to ensure environmental compliance at all 14 city treatment plants.
The agreement is settlement for $27.5 million in fines that have been levied against the Newtown Creek plant for past environmental violations.
Fun fact: the Newtown Creek plant is the largest sewage treatment plant in the state. Go Greenpoint!
Via NY1, a woman was raped on Bedford Avenue at 4 a.m. Wednesday morning. The report doesn’t say where on Bedford.
**UPDATE:** Gothamist reports that the rape occurred in Crown Heights’ 71st precinct (though their slug is still titled “rapist_at_large_in_williamsburg”).
