You wouldn’t know from reading Crain’s, but CB1 supports about 9 out of every 10 liquor license applications that come before it. (Proving Woody Allen right, the huge majority of rejected applications are for bars and restaurants that don’t even bother showing up.)
That’s some crackdown.
The Awl interviews Daily News reporter Kerry Burke (a Sweetwater alum):
I deal in other people’s agony. I do. You can’t candy coat that. But if you can’t live with that, you shouldn’t be in this game. I’m not some nice person from a nice place. I’m not. I do my damndest to be a decent man and an honest reporter.
He hasn’t changed, either.
Amanda Kludt at Eater:
It’ll be just the place to go when there are too many black cars idling outside of Sea Thai.
Maybe things have changed since Tim Cook took over, but I’m pretty sure Apple still has an NDA the size of the Manhattan phone book (if anyone remembers what that is). Any developer who says that he is in “preliminary talks with Apple” about anything is either a) heavily exaggerating or b) unlikely to hear from Apple ever again.
Besides, the next Apple store is coming to Williamsburg.
(Not that an Apple store in Queens is out of the question. But don’t bet on an iconic Manhattan-style store – Apple has hundreds of smaller stores around the country (including Manhasset and Roosevelt Field Mall), and is always opening new ones.)
The sale of the Hotel Williamsburg, which I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, is now official (or official news, the sale itself is still not completed).
$9.50 an hour median pay for what for most is part-time or temp work, with only 3 in 10 receiving health benefits.
These are the jobs that are created as better paying jobs with better benefits get squeezed out on the industrial side.
And no, the living wage bill working its way through the Council won’t do anything to make this better.
Norm Siegel is joining forces with Herb Teitelbaum, Saralee Evans (Siegel’s wife) and Emily Jane Goodman (the retiring state judge who recently wrote the Broadway Triangle decision) to form a new firm.
Nowy Dziennik has a security camera video of the billboard collapsing onto the BQE this afternoon. It looks as though the billboard that went down was the one that had been tagged for ages (most recently by “Rambo”).
As a special bonus, I now know the Polish words for “billboard” and “Brooklyn Queens Expressway”.
[via City Room]
Fushimi gets a neighbor. Something tells me this isn’t going to be the hippest part of the neighborhood.
Lepoldo Hernandez, 57, was struck and killed by two vans at the intersection of Borinquen and Keap yesterday morning. This is a particularly pedestrian-unfriendly intersection, in the pre-dawn hours, with a (allegedly) speeding van. DNA Info (which is new to the neighborhood beat) includes a set of heart-wrenching on-the-scene photos.
