Category: Noted
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CPCR Donated Over $100k to Local Supporters
According to the Brooklyn Paper, Community Preservation Corporation Resources, the for-profit developer leading the effort to redevelop the Domino Sugar site, paid out at least $100,000 to local groups over a two-year period. The neighborhood groups, which include El Puente, Los Sures, and Keren Ezer, received $10,000 each. (A fourth neighborhood group – Churches United…
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Zach Galifianakis’ First Video
Via Huffington Post, here is Zach Galifianakis’ acting debut, in a student short shot on the Northside in the early 1990s. Worth a look to see old shots the L Cafe (and the apartment listings there) and Teddy’s in an earlier (but not too different) incarnation. Oh yeah, and goatees – I forgot about those.…
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Another Whole Foods in Williamsburg Rumor
The empty hulk of a building at North 4th and Bedford is the site of the latest Whole-Foods-in-Williamsburg rumor. The Post reports that the property has changed hands, with the Backer Group having sold to new owners. The new owner confirms that “several national tenants are interested” in the property (isn’t that always the case?),…
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East River Ferry: Perks on the Horizon
Metro Focus interviews the CEO of the East River Ferry: Ridership last week saw 1,500 riders per day. You use the word drop only in comparison to a robust level of ridership over the summer. It’s interesting how people choose to characterize the numbers. We are very impressed with how commuter ridership has grown through…
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New Public School at Roberto Clemente
A Child Grows in Brooklyn has details on the new public school that is opening in place of the former PS 19 Roberto Clemente school on South 3rd between Keap and Rodney. The new school will be the Brooklyn Arbor School (I think DOE was calling it PS 114) at the Roberto Clemente Campus (hopefully…
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City Cuts Out East W’burg, G’point From Bike Share
http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/35/8/dtg_bikeshare_2012_02_24_bk.html
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Where’s Here’s Williamsburg?
What happened to Here’s Williamsburg? It was going great guns for a few months, but I just noticed that nothing has been posted for almost a month. (Here at Brooklyn11211, month-long gaps are not unheard of, but we don’t make any pretenses of professionalism!)
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Checking in on the Wiliamsburgh Savings Bank Reno
http://www.brownstoner.com/blog/2012/02/checking-in-on-the-williamsburgh-savings-bank-reno/