Category: Noted
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Who’s Behind the Blight?
Turns out that a lot of the stalled construction sites in Williamsburg (corner of South 4th and Bedford, 212-218 North 9th, 237-243 North 9th, 261-263 North 9th) are owned by the same pair of developers. Who also own the converted loft building at 100 South 4th Street and the vacated loft building at 239 Banker…
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Charlatans & Cowards
Kevin Drum on the pitiful jobs report out this morning: We are ruled by charlatans and cowards. Our economy is in the tank, we know what to do about it, and we’re just not going to do it. The charlatans prefer instead to stand by and let people suffer because that’s politically useful, while the…
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In Hawking Seafood, He Reeled in a Show
Ben Sargent, founder of Hurricane Hopeful and the underground lobster-roll man, makes the big time.
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Crown Vic
Interesting item on CB1’s crowded liquor license agenda this month – an application for a bar at 60 South 2nd Street, to be called Crown Victoria. A bar, on a list of 34 bars and restaurants (it was a quiet month), is not that interesting. But the location is – this is a site that…
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Lesbians, Gays, Firemen & Teachers
This evening, teachers were spared layoffs, firehouses were saved from closure, and gays and lesbians were given the right to marry. Not bad for a day’s work, New York.
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Bushwick Creek, The Movie
Filmmaker Brian Walsh has made a movie about Bushwick Creek and what lies beneath. The movie was based in part (or maybe inspired by is a better phrase) a blog post I wrote over four years ago, and which was, in turn, inspired by Bob Guskind’s reporting on the “Roebling Oil Field”. Brian’s film is…
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East River Ferry Capacity Limits
Free ferries are a popular commodity. So popular, in fact, that the East River Ferry has huge lines at just about every stop, and the boats are running on what can only loosely be described as a “schedule” (in fact, during off-peak hours, they’ve abandoned any pretense of a schedule, and are just running the…
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Pies n Things
CityMaps is a new interactive map site that seeks to be “a one-stop shop for hyper-local and real-time information about neighborhood places”. Based on the attached, I assume they are still in beta.
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Shorter L Train Next Week
The L train will terminate at Myrtle-Wyckoff Avenues midday next week, Monday through Friday. Which shouldn’t impact service elsewhere along the line. More info (sort of) here.