Author: linked
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Triangulum 100% Leased!
I suppose this is good news for the developer, but I fail to see why leasing out a rental building on the southside deserves its own press release.
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Looking for Love
Thanks to Google’s annual zetgeist report on search trends, we now know that there are a lot more people out there looking for love than looking for love. (And that a lot of them finding love, judging by the “How to…” graph!)
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Congestion Pricing DOA?
To be taken with a grain of salt, in that it comes from Newsday, which writes for Long Island commuters. If true, this would be a huge setback for smart planning in NYC. And once again, its the out of city pols who are killing us. I know there’s a lot of outer borough hatred…
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Commerce Bank on Bedford
This is old news, but the Star has an update on the status of the proposed Commerce Bank project at North 4th and Bedford. Short take: the Community Board isn’t willing to support a bad design (and this is a really bad design), particularly one that doesn’t provide the types of affordable housing the neighborhood…
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DOB and the Scarano plea deal
DOB is now saying that the deal they reached with architect Robert Scarano “had no practical impact whatsoever” on any State charges that might be leveled against the architect. Maybe so, but the deal does nothing to counter the notion that DOB (or at least the Brooklyn office) exists to protect developers, contractors and architects,…
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Domino Landmarked
No shenanigans this time around – the City Council has voted to confirm the landmark designation of Domino.
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Church of the Ascension Coat Drive
Via Heather, the Church of the Ascension is accepting coats for the annual NY Cares coat drive.
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More Service on the L Train
Come February, rush hour trains every three and half minutes (currently they run every four minutes, though it never feels that way).
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Artists need Housing
This article could almost have been written today, but it is actually 25 years old. Its relevant today because Teachers College just released a report (pdf) documenting the importance of reasonably-priced (usually regulated) housing for artists. In much of north Brooklyn, the damage has already been done, as a generation of younger artists has been…