Category: Linked
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Craig Murphey
Craig Murphey was the cyclist who was killed last week while riding at Ten Eyck and Union. Lost in a lot of the speculation and grief over the Craig’s death is the fact that he was “on the job” at the time – volunteering for Right Rides and helping someone get home safely late at…
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Grand Ferry Rebuild
From Curbed, word that Grand Ferry Park is finally under construction. This reconstruction was originally to have been funded by $350,000 (or so, I’m not great with math) from the NY Power Authority, as partial mitigation for the mini power plant adjacent to the park. A lot of neighborhood activists fought long and hard for…
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Garbage Politics
North Brooklyn is home to a disproportionate number of the City’s waste transfer stations. While the Mayor’s Solid Waste Management Plan would correct this social injustice by distributing transfer stations throughout the five boroughs, many are opposed (including the Mayor’s neighbors on the Upper East Side). No Impact Man has the lowdown on the latest…
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Taxi!
From the City Room, a history of the tortured path to the new taxi logo design. The new logos are not getting much love (see this second post in the series too). I think the idea of updating the taxi look is appealing – the DIY aesthetic of the stenciling was long overdue for replacement.…
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Media Bistro Outs Newyorkshitty Outing TONY
Heather gets some love: …the non-pastor half of the duo is one of New York’s great, unheralded writers. “Miss Heather” writes the cult favorite New York Shitty blog, dedicated to tracking dog crap in Greenpoint, Williamsburg and environs. It’s compulsively readable, has a soft spot for the eccentricities of North Brooklyn
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Sorry about that
In case you hadn’t noticed, a lot of this blog is just an excuse to fool around with Movable Type, css and a bunch of other fun stuff. In other words, experimenting so that other blogs don’t have days like today. If you were looking for posts today and just found a blank page, chalk…
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Very Sad
Tavin Alves Clark was a 16-year-old who lived on Cooper Street. Earlier this week he was struck by a stray bullet while looking out his apartment window. After a few days on life support, Tavin died yesterday.
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Apple in the Burg
Yeah, its been linked to a thousand times, and discussed ad nauseum on every comment board in the city. My two cents – no way. An out of the way location with little destination potential is not the Apple way (even malls are destinations, this isn’t). It would make my life easier if it did…
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Bushwick Inlet Park Acquisitions
The Eagle doesn’t say which two properties, but does get Massey Knakal on record inflating the price of land that will (hopefully) one day be a park (and costing taxpayers money in the process). The thing is, these properties were rezoned from manufacturing to park land, not residential. Not many development opportunities there, certainly not…