Category: Articles
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More on Hope
Rami Metal, Councilman Steve Levin’s Williamsburg & Greenpoint rep, posted the following to the CB1 Info mailing list: Some of you may already be aware of this but for those who are not I am deeply saddened to say that Hope Reichbach, our communications director, died yesterday. We are unbelievably shaken and saddened by her…
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Hope Reichbach
This is sad beyond words. Hope Reichbach was found dead in her Boerum Hill apartment yesterday afternoon. She was a wonderful young woman and a positive force in her community and mine. Gatemouth and FiPS have some very nice remembrances, as do the commenters at this Brooklyn Paper article. My condolences to her family, friends…
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A Better Look at Triangle Court
Triangle Court (proposed) Architect: KOH Architecture Photo: KOH Architecture via Curbed Yesterday, Curbed posted a better image of Triangle Court. Here it is in all it’s glory. The building will occupy the former gas station site on the western half of the triangle formed by Grand, Keap and Borinquen. The future of the rest of…
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First Look at Triangle Court
Triangle Court, proposed design Architect: KOH Architecture Photo: nycmayorsoffice Via Azi Paybarah, I came across this photo on the Mayor’s flickr stream (and also learned that the Mayor had a flickr stream). Azi (and others) seem to be interested in the political ramifications of the photo (that’s Vito Lopez’s head cropped out at the top…
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For Whom The Bells Toll
They toll for no one, actually. As NY Shitty reports, the bells at St. Anthony of Padua on Manhattan Avenue have been silent for some weeks now. According to the church, the mechanism to operate the bells is in need of repairs, to the tune of $10,000 to $25,000. To fund the repairs, they are…
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City Launches Brownfield Program in Williamsburg
Mayor Bloomberg was in the neighborhood today, launching the country’s first municipally-run brownfield clean up program. The program, which targets “lightly contaminated” sites, gives developers liability protection in addition to a clean development site. The City chose 456 Grand Street, at the triangle that intersects Grand, Keap and Borinquen, and which is to be the…
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Transmitter Park Before It Was a Park
WNYC Transmitter, 1937 Painting by Alan Gordon Lorimer Source: WNYC Once upon a time, there was an actual transmitter at Transmitter Park (the park to be at the base of Greenpoint Avenue). The transmitter was for WNYC, which was then a City-owned radio station. The station still exists (AM 820, FM 93.9 and online), though…
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Let There Be Music
Brooklyn Vegan has a statement from OSA on the summer concert park series, basically saying that the show will go on. (Not that there was really any doubt about that – the concerts are popular, profitable and well beyond the jurisdiction of the local community board.) And Brooklyn365 has a similar statement from Assemblyman Joe Lentol,…
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Williamsburg Bans Music?
So, apparently threatening to cut off the hootch is a good way to pack a community board meeting. Tonight’s CB1 was certainly packed, and the press was out in full force to see what went down. NY1 was there, as was the Huffington Post and all the local press (even local press alums came out).…