Category: Upcoming
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Northside Festival
The L Magazine has just announced that it is staging a Northside Festival. The fist-annual Northside Festival will run from June 11 to June 14, and is being promoted as a four-day celebration of the independent music and art scene that thrives in Williamsburg and Greenpoint.
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North Brooklyn Story Project
NAG (Neighbors Allied for Good Growth) has been doing a series of town hall meetings over the past few months, trying to get people engaged on different aspect of life and activism in Williamsburg and Greenpoint. One of the projects to come out this is the North Brooklyn Story Project, which seeks to compile an…
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Rezoning Greenpoint & Williamsburg
At its March 2nd meeting, the City Planning Commission voted to certify the Greenpoint-Williamsburg Contextual Rezoning. This rezoning seeks to preserve the character of 175 blocks in Greenpoint and Williamsburg by introducing height limits and introducing some areas of inclusionary (affordable) housing. The contextual rezoning was originally proposed by Councilmembers Yassky and Reyna during the…
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Williamsburg Fashion Weekend
Williamsburg Fashion Weekend is underway. Tomorrow night, my friends at Treehouse and neighbors at Sodafine will be joining forces at Glasslands to showcase their newest handmade creations in another super-spectacular fashion performance. Also on the bill are fashion shows by talented local designers Arthur Arbit and SDN, and after the show, music by Tall Firs…
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North Brooklyn Public Art Coalition
At last week’s CB1 meeting, Councilmember Yassky’s office announced a new public art initiative. The initiative is a response to the rather woeful lack of public art (and opportunities for public art) in a neighborhood of artists. Organized in conjunction with the Open Space Alliance, the North Brooklyn Public Art Coalition “will be comprised of…
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27 January: CB1 Waterfront/ULURP Committee
Community Board #1’s ULURP and Waterfront Committees will be holding a joint meeting tomorrow night to consider City Planning’s proposed text amendments to the waterfront zoning provisions. In general, the proposal seems like a good package, and is certainly well-intentioned. But as with all such measures, there are devils in the details and questions as…
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22 Nov: India Street End Park Design Review
OSA and GWAPP are hosting a design review meeting this Saturday to see that latest plans for the India Street End Park design. (Hopefully there will be a discussion about park naming too.) For information, check out GWAPP or OSA.
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24 Nov: Transportation Town Hall Meeting
Next Monday, Councilman David Yassky and State Senator-elect Daniel Squadron will be hosting a Transportation Town Hall meeting. Representatives from the Department of Transportation and the Metropolitan Transit Authority will be there to answer community questions and concerns. There probably won’t be much to talk about. But maybe you can think of a concern. Or…
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Meeker Plume Walking Tour
The Meeker Plume (via Newtown Creek Alliance. Newtown Creek Alliance is putting on a tour of the Meeker Avenue contaminants plume. Per them: Please join us for a walking tour of the Meeker Ave. Contaminant Plumes where brownfields experts Lenny Siegel and Peter Strauss will be on hand to answer questions about hazardous vapor intrusion…
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G-W Contextual Rezoning
Greenpoint-Williamsburg Contextual Rezoning Study Area Last night City Planning and Community Board #1, in conjunction with Council Members Yassky and Reyna, held an informational session on the proposed contextual rezoning of 175 blocks in Greenpoint & Williamsburg. As in previous rezonings (Grand Street in 2008, Northside in 2005), the aim of the zoning is to…