Tag: greenpoint
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Liu Looking Into Greenpoint Shelter Plans
Things seem to be heating up over 400 McGuinness Boulevard, the loft building that keeps trying to be a homeless shelter. The Brooklyn Eagle reported last week that a “hotel developer” had acquired the property. The quotation marks are there because, while the developer does build hotels, he also builds a lot of homeless shelters…
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Catholic Church Extinguishes Arts Community at St. Cecilia’s
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/08/catholic_church_extinguishes_a.html
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State Won’t Fund Kayak Center on Newtown Creek
The Newtown Creek Boathouse proposal, which was the top-ranked project for funding under the State-administered fund established to mitigate the City’s ongoing pollution of the creek during the construction of the Newtown Creek Waste Management plant may run aground because of the Federal designation of the creek as a Superfund site. Got that?
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Wealthy & Stealthy
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/wealthy_stealthy_j0oSF5EtbIXsn2QgBZmMuI
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City Sues Gutman Over Street-Blocking Fence
http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/34/16/wb_noblefencesuit_2011_04_22_bk.html
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For Whom The Bells Toll
They toll for no one, actually. As NY Shitty reports, the bells at St. Anthony of Padua on Manhattan Avenue have been silent for some weeks now. According to the church, the mechanism to operate the bells is in need of repairs, to the tune of $10,000 to $25,000. To fund the repairs, they are…
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Transmitter Park Before It Was a Park
WNYC Transmitter, 1937 Painting by Alan Gordon Lorimer Source: WNYC Once upon a time, there was an actual transmitter at Transmitter Park (the park to be at the base of Greenpoint Avenue). The transmitter was for WNYC, which was then a City-owned radio station. The station still exists (AM 820, FM 93.9 and online), though…
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65 Commercial Street Update
Below is a copy of the letter from MTA Chair Jay Walder to Deputy Mayor Robert Steel, confirming the MTA’s acceptance of alternate sites for the Paratransit and EMS vehicles currently located at 65 Commercial Street. Of note is the MTA’s commitment to use the Maspeth Paratransit site for vehicle storage only, not as depot.…
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MTA Ready to Leave 65 Commercial
In a letter to the Mayor’s office, the MTA has finally agreed to move the operations currently housed at 65 Commercial Street. The sticking point on the move – which the MTA agreed to almost exactly 6 years ago – was the MTA’s refusal to accept the compensatory sites offered by the City. Today, the…