Category: Articles
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Building Heats Up Down By The East River
http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20120311/REAL_ESTATE02/303119989
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Bushwick BK is Back (I Hope)
Bushwick BK is reincarnating itself as Bushwick News, a non-profit website to report on news, events and history at the other end of the Eastern District. To make it all work, they are trying to raise money through a Kickstarter. What they are trying to raise – $40,000 – is ambitious, but Bushwick BK was…
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Sewer Diving on South 6th Street
Urban explorer Steve Duncan goes spelunking in the sewer tunnels under South 5th Street west of Kent Avenue (this is where the city has been installing a new bladder system to control CSOs – not in Bushwick, as the Gothamist headline says).
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Judge Grants Injunction on Broadway Triangle
State Supreme Court Judge Emily Goodman has granted a preliminary injunction that bars the City from moving forward with the development of affordable housing in the Broadway Triangle area. The suit, brought by the NY Civil Liberties Union, Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation A, Emery Celli Brinckerhoff & Abady and the Broadway Triangle Community Coalition, alleges…
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What IS Con Ed Up To On River Street?
Con Ed’s River Street site, partially demolished Photo: Sharese Ann Frederick on flickr I’ve mentioned this in passing before, but Con Ed is doing some serious demolition at its River Street facilities. The two-block site used to house a series of storage tanks, but over the past few months, the tanks have been slowly coming…
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Hipster Highway Hellzone
‘It’s well known that it is a dangerous place,’ said grieving mom Rachel McCulloch, whose hipster son, 28-year-old Neil Chamberlain, was killed during an early morning hit and run on McGuinness in April 2010. Note to the Daily News – it’s not just hipsters who are losing their lives on McGuinness Boulevard. And Chamberlain’s mother…
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Upgrading the L Train
The MTA has announced a series of planned upgrades for service on the L line – moves that, in the long term, at least, could ease some of the overcrowding on the line. The services changes are partially a response to a request from State Senator Dan Squadron that the the MTA review the state…
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New Condos
The Louver House 268 Wythe Avenue (aka 91 – 93 Metropolitan Avenue) has relaunched as the Louver House (it had been called the Louver Condominium). The new name is an intentional (I assume) play on the name of one of the iconic works of 20th-Century architecture. The project has languished on the market – either…
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Drug Orgies on the Northside
It would be hard to do, but in case you missed it, a resident of North 7th Street has posted videos of people huffing nitrous on North 7th Street after last Saturday’s Widespread Panic concert. I’d heard about these videos last night, but hadn’t seen them until just now. While I wouldn’t call this a…
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Is Brooklyn a Disaster Area?
No. A hurricane hit Brooklyn dead on, and the damage we suffered was pretty minimal. Anytime you can say that, you are lucky. Brooklyn (and all of New York City) was very lucky. We planned well and were very well prepared, but at the end of the day, we were very lucky. Huge swaths of…