Tag Archives: open space
Our Voices Exhibition Celebrates 50 Years of Activism in North Brooklyn: Sneak Peek
Tuesday, May 10, 2022
https://greenpointers.com/2022/05/10/our-voices-exhibition-celebrates-50-years-of-activism-in-north-brooklyn-sneak-peek/
17 Years
Tuesday, May 3, 2022
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 […]
New Park with Decoyotes
Tuesday, May 3, 2022
https://northbrooklynnews.com/2022/05/02/new-park-with-decoyotes/
Thoughts on River Ring
Monday, August 30, 2021
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 […]
District 33 and 34 Candidates’ Forum
Saturday, May 1, 2021
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 […]
Public-Private Brooklyn Waterfront Project Is Starting To Bloom
Friday, December 15, 2017
https://www.wsj.com/articles/public-private-brooklyn-waterfront-project-is-starting-to-bloom-1513177200
Cleaning Up Bushwick Inlet Park
Wednesday, July 20, 2016
What will (hopefully) someday be a 28-acre waterfront park at Bushwick Inlet has a long and messy industrial legacy to contend with.
City Insists it is Still Committed to Finishing Bushwick Inlet Park
Wednesday, May 27, 2015
http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/38/22/dtg-citistorage-bushwick-inlet-park-city-statement-2015-05-29-bk.html
New Towers for Williamsburg
Friday, December 19, 2014
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/21/realestate/brooklyn-new-towers-for-williamsburg.html?_r=0
Riverside Interludes, Far From the Madding Crowd
Monday, August 26, 2013
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/26/nyregion/in-williamsburg-riverside-interludes-amid-the-tumult.html?smid=pl-share