Good. When he’s convicted, maybe we can make a nice little prison for him overlooking ground zero.

Image: Pfizer

Pfizer, the anchor tenant (but not a party to) the redevelopment project that led to Kelo v. New London and the expansion of government powers of eminent domain, is bailing out of New London. That the company took New London’s tax incentives and now is leaving the Connecticut city high and dry should come as no surprise to Brooklynites.

Pfizer announced last year that it was closing its Brooklyn operations – where the company was founded 160 years ago. This despite the fact that the company had accepted $46 million in tax breaks from the City to bring jobs to New York.

And just to show how classy they are, on its way out of Brooklyn Pfizer demolished the red brick building that had served as its first laboratory, office, factory and warehouse (pictured above).

It would be interesting to compare the number of stalled sites to the number of active (and new) construction sites. What continues to amaze me is not the number of stalled sites but rather the number of projects that are starting up.

(And for the record, North8, the project behind Phil in the photo was not stalled Monday evening when I walked by.)

Last week I posted two of the designs under consideration for the Kosciuszko Bridge’s replacement – Aaron Seward in the Architect’s Newspaper has the third bridge. The three options were chosen by Greenpoint and Long Island City residents from a menu of eight bridge choices.

Tomorrow night, from 7 to 9.

The break was ages ago.

Teresa Toro, who knows a thing or two, writes about how to make streets livable (hint – it’s not just about painting bike lanes). She also addresses an issue that is increasingly a problem – assholes on two wheels:

As bike use has spiked, bad cyclist behavior has become a huge issue… cyclists frequently don’t cede right of way to pedestrians, or behave in a way that’s appropriate to the street they’re traveling upon. These cyclists’ behavior is a lousy way to thank an administration that has finally done the right thing and acknowledged cycling as an important mode of transportation. Bad behavior keeps cycling on the fringe in terms of public opinion, instead of in the mainstream where it belongs.

Like motorcyclists insisting that loud pipes save lives (they don’t – they just really piss off people), bikers (of the non-motorized variety) are often their own worst enemy when it comes to PR.

Ted Hamm of the Brooklyn Rail has left the nabe.