Tag: open space

• Our Voices Exhibition Celebrates 50 Years of Activism in North Brooklyn: Sneak Peek

  https://greenpointers.com/2022/05/10/our-voices-exhibition-celebrates-50-years-of-activism-in-north-brooklyn-sneak-peek/

  10 May 2022

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  2005 rezoning, activism, environmental justce, greenpoint, history, open space, power plant, rezoning, waterfront, williamsburg

• 17 Years

  

  Via North Brooklyn Neighbors, the cover of the New York Times, 17 years ago today. Marking the finalization of the deal to rezone the Williamsburg/Greenpoint waterfront. The rezoning itself was enacted 8 days later. As I noted in an earlier linked post, 17 years on only a third of the promised Bushwick Inlet Park has…

  3 May 2022

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  2005 rezoning, affordable housing, open space, waterfront

• New Park with Decoyotes

  https://northbrooklynnews.com/2022/05/02/new-park-with-decoyotes/

  3 May 2022

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  2005 rezoning, BIP, bushwick inlet park, open space, parks, rezoning

• Thoughts on River Ring

  River Ring – the proposed rezoning by Two Trees of the former Con Ed site at Metropolitan and River Street – kicks off its ULURP review with a Community Board 1 Land Use committee meeting on Wednesday. Hopefully the CB recommends for changes but does not follow the lead of those who want to kill…

  30 August 2021

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  2005 rezoning, affordable housing, con ed, development, open space, parks, rezoning, River Ring, waterfront, zoning

• District 33 and 34 Candidates’ Forum

  The North Brooklyn Open Space Coalition* held as excellent forum with the candidates for the District 33 and 34 City Council seats on Thursday. Some very good questions on parks, open space, development and the waterfront. Diana Reyna and Ron Shiffman did a great job moderating too. Watch the forum via video link here (via…

  1 May 2021

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  open space, politics

• Public-Private Brooklyn Waterfront Project Is Starting To Bloom

  https://www.wsj.com/articles/public-private-brooklyn-waterfront-project-is-starting-to-bloom-1513177200

  15 December 2017

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  2005 rezoning, open space, parks, waterfront

• Cleaning Up Bushwick Inlet Park

  What will (hopefully) someday be a 28-acre waterfront park at Bushwick Inlet has a long and messy industrial legacy to contend with.

  20 July 2016

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  bushwick creek, bushwick inlet, bushwick inlet park, environment, industrial legacy, mgp, open space, parks

• City Insists it is Still Committed to Finishing Bushwick Inlet Park

  http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/38/22/dtg-citistorage-bushwick-inlet-park-city-statement-2015-05-29-bk.html

  27 May 2015

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  2005 rezoning, bushwick inlet park, open space, parks, waterfront

• New Towers for Williamsburg

  http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/21/realestate/brooklyn-new-towers-for-williamsburg.html?_r=0

  19 December 2014

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  bushwick inlet park, development, domino, kedem winery, open space, waterfront, williamsburg bridge park

• Riverside Interludes, Far From the Madding Crowd

  http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/26/nyregion/in-williamsburg-riverside-interludes-amid-the-tumult.html?smid=pl-share

  26 August 2013

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  grand ferry, open space, parks, waterfront