Tag: parks
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City Too Poor to Build Promised Bushwick Inlet Park
http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/34/29/wb_inletdelays_2011_07_22_bk.html
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Reversal on Plans for Williamsburg Park
The Daily News reports today that the City is reneging on one of the key components of the 2005 Greenpoint/Williamsburg rezoning – the 28-acre Bushwick Inlet Park. The park – which would straddle Greenpoint and Williamsburg – was the centerpiece of the City’s open space plan under the rezoning. In the six years since the…
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Bushwick Inlet Park Update
Bushwick Inlet Park – Someday. Curbed has a post today headlined “Long-Delayed Bushwick Inlet Park Now Planning for 2012“. What they mean is that the big pile of dirt on Kent Avenue between North 9th and North 10th Streets will become the headquarters for North Brooklyn’s Parks operations will open in “winter 2012”. Curbed mistakenly…
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2011 McCarren Park Summerscreen Announced
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2ni3UQ/www.thelmagazine.com/TheMeasure/archives/2011/05/16/the-l-magazine-and-epix-present-jurassic-park-clueless-friday-and-more-at-this-years-summerscreen
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CB1 Supports OSA Concerts
CB1 voted tonight to partially overturn the recommendation of the Parks Committee and not recommend a reduction in the number of OSA concerts or the number of concert attendees. This came after OSA Secretary Adam Perlmutter made the case for OSA and it’s concert series. Perlmutter pointed out that last year’s promoter was out and…
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Williamsburg Community Board Approves Parks Concert Series
The waterfront concerts were not the only concert series on the agenda of last nights CB1 Parks Committee meeting. I hear that at the end of the meeting the committee recommended that the full board support the L Magazine’s Northside Festival concerts in McCarren Park (I think on the asphalt baseball fields across from the…
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The Day the Music Was Turned Down (But Not Really)
http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/34/18/wb_concerts_2011_5_6_bk.html
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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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Let There Be Music
Brooklyn Vegan has a statement from OSA on the summer concert park series, basically saying that the show will go on. (Not that there was really any doubt about that – the concerts are popular, profitable and well beyond the jurisdiction of the local community board.) And Brooklyn365 has a similar statement from Assemblyman Joe Lentol,…