Three charter high schools run by the Believe Network, which has had numerous problems over the years. As one state official put it:
Over the last few months, both the State Education Department and the Department of Education have laid out a very troubling pattern of what is, at best, financial irregularities by the school’s management and perhaps much worse
This “troubling pattern” will likely leave as many as 1,500 local high school students without a school come June.
Interesting use of quotation marks by the Post.
Rafael Cestero, who headed HPD for two years, will take over the helm at Community Preservation Corporation/CPC Resources (the latter is the developer of the Domino project). Michael Lappin, who was CEO of CPC/CPCR for 30 years, announced his retirement in November.
Brownstoner interviews Laura Treciokas, co-chair of Friends of Bushwick Inlet Park and a Where’s Our Park? organizer.
I had no idea you could carbon date whisky.
Regardless of the merits of the suit, this seems to be an incredibly stupid move on the part of Skee-Ball, Inc.
Grub Street has the details.
Moses Gates took WNYC on a tour of some “ghost” subways sites in the city’s transit system.
The piece includes this cool interactive map of the system’s once-planned routes and abandoned stations. Most of the abandoned stations were taken out of service over time – the exception is the South 4th Street station, which was never completed. A few clicks around the interactive map show how different the Southside might have been if the Depression hadn’t stopped this major expansion (the 6th Avenue (F) and 8th Avenue (C?) lines both would have come out to Williamsburg, where they would have hooked up with Crosstown (G) service).
Slate:
[There are] two main approaches to this uniquely venerable beverage. The austere former — its liquor merely sweetened and seasoned, not even tarted up with a citrus twist — is hard-core originalist. The fancy latter points to the opposite extreme, where the bartender muddles a whole Carmen Miranda headdress and the squirt of carbonated water becomes a long spritz of Sprite.
Personally, I prefer the version served at Rye (which is definitely in the originalist camp).
[via DF]
In case you haven’t noticed, development is booming (again) in Williamsburg. The Post has the details on over 1,300 new units that will (supposedly) hit the market by the end of 2014 (most of them rentals, but condos seem poised for a rise from the ashes too). As Brownstoner points out, it’s pretty clear the Post hasn’t even scratched the surface – anecdotally, it seems as though the majority of the formerly-stalled sites in the area are back in action, and there are a lot of development sites that the article misses. To Brownstoner’s list (11 Broadway and 65 Hope), I’d add South 6th and Wythe (pouring foundations), North 6th & Wythe (almost topped out), South 1st near Kent (back in action), Grand & Driggs (closed in) and about a dozen small sites between Broadway and McCarren that are actively under construction.
As the Post says, “Think the L train is crowded now? Brace yourself.”. Indeed.
