Whether it’s a birthday party, with friends, or a professional league of out-of-style grandpas, bowling has always been fun for everybody. Williamsburg brings the spirit of bowling to visitors, tourists, locals, and students…

Oh, wrong Williamsburg. You can understand my confusion.

NYT infographic on music sales by format, 1973 to 2008. LP sales peaked in 1978, five years before the first CD sales. (8-track sales also peaked in 1978 – clearly a banner year for obsolete formats.)

[Via DF]

It’s not just the “HPD” plan – under anyone’s plans for the Broadway Triangle, Shanghai Stainless Steel (and the other manufacturers) do not have a place. That’s why the industrial relocation money – and proximity requirements – that CB1 insisted on are so critical. Yassky and Lopez have gone on record supporting this money – now they need to deliver.

[UPDATE: Edited title to remove random Viking reference. Sorry about that.]

Existing subway lines can be crowded, especially in places such as Brooklyn where subway stops closest to Manhattan (near the water) are often very crowded with commuters.

Sounds familiar.

According to the Eagle, the sites under consideration are Williamsburg, Greenpoint, Sheepshead Bay, Floyd Bennett Field, Coney Island, Bay Ridge, Red Hook and Atlantic Avenue North. Of course if all our condo promises come true, we will have water taxi stops at Domino, Northside Piers, and Greenpoint. Not sure which is more likely to happen – a city-subsidized ferry or a developer-subsidized ferry.

WG News+Arts on the very unsurprising scaffold collapse at 5 Roebling.

[Henceforth,] the corner of Kossuth Place and Bushwick Avenue will be known as “Jose Sucuzhañay Place.”

I’m not a big fan of street renamings, but I’ll make an exception on this one.

Considering that I used to pay $300 to $400 a year to read the Times (picking it up most weekdays and most Sundays), $5 a month would be a bargain. But if they’re going to make it work, they’ll have to think through some very basic web-compatible concepts – like how people link to articles that aren’t free.

Someone needs to come up with the paradigm shifting model that reconciles two (currently) diametrically opposes ideas: 1) information wants to be free; and 2) news is worth paying for.

Reyna funds renovations at La Marqueta.

The bike to work bill is approved. The only “no” vote came from Bushwick’s Erik Dilan.