Open Thread Wednesday

By on July 12, 2022 11:31 pm in open thread

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  • kizz

    Andrew Porter, have you heard anything new about the Brooklyn Strand?

    https://www.wxystudio.com/projects/urban_design/brooklyn_strand

  • gc

    Great photo!
    Remindful of Starry Night and View of Toledo.

  • aeshtron

    It seems like the header photo was taken from the roof of the Emergency Management building or by a drone. Nice shot. It’d look neat/different with a longer exposure streaking moving lights.

  • Jorale-man

    Pandemic update for 11201:
    Dates: July 4-July 10
    7-day percent positive: 13.07%
    People tested (reported to date): 1102
    New people positive (reported to date): 144
    https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-data.page#maps
    NYC remains an area of high transmission and with BA.5, masks are recommended for indoor and crowded outdoor spaces.

  • SongBirdNYC

    Great shot, Mary!

  • Mary Kim

    Thanks all for the compliments on the photo. It was taken from a residential rooftop with my Samsung Galaxy and “#nofilter” as the kids say.

  • Lucas Collins

    Anyone heard anything about the Walt Whitman sprinklers? Gonna be 100 degrees next week

  • meschwar

    I’d be very surprised if the come on at all this summer. There’s a whole drainage problem that they need to deal with, and I don’t see any evidence that work has started.

    The sprinklers at McLaughlin are on, just a couple blocks away.

  • Lucas Collins

    Been like that for several summers and they usually relent when it gets hot enough. But that was also when they maintained the park a lot more than they have last 20 months

  • meschwar

    My understanding is that it’s now flooding the federal courthouse basement, which is a big problem.

  • Andrew Porter

    Not new. First proposed in 2014—see map, when it was called the Greenway:
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/9a2faed0725588f8b26fefdd1b785aeeb4c1fa07d1715cd90e64066605587b7f.jpg

  • Andrew Porter

    I took this from the 21st floor apartment of a friend who used to live at 140 Cadman Plaza West. She has, alas, moved to assisted living in Florida, not of her own choice:
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/8f0657df3ce956076e2fc303e847ed4e0d0837417bf7c4f5ea9342d463a08cfd.jpg

  • Andrew Porter

    As I’ve written before, that circular planting area when you exit the High Street subway on CPW was originally built as a kid’s fountain and wading area. Never worked, leaked, and they gave up on it decades ago.

    You can see the remnants of another wading area just to the south, in front of the townhouses.

  • Andrew Porter

    Here’s your photo with the shadows lightened, and very slightly sharpened. Click to enbiggen:
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/fdee7689f4bf1480f0e436237a03a89134d1aa494a01ede324fa1f4b63ca5e89.jpg

  • rdgesq

    Ive heard for years that the bricks surrounding that came from the building that was there that had been the home of Whitman. Can anyone confirm?

  • William Gilbert

    Your original is better than the manipulated one below.

  • Karl Junkersfeld

    Agreed. New version appears washed out. Original is perfect.

  • Karl Junkersfeld

    Conjecture about bricks were related to his printing shop. Personally I doubt the brick story but what do I know. See attached link discussion which elaborates on this very topic.

    http://mcbrooklyn.blogspot.com/2009/04/walt-whitmans-print-shop-in-brooklyn.html

  • kizz

    Of course. I’m asking if you have heard anything new about these long-standing “plans.”

  • Darryl S. Rich

    Brooklyn Heights Public Library

  • Darryl S. Rich

    I thought the new Brooklyn Heights branch of the Brooklyn Public Library was going to have some of the Art Deco statues/panels on it – but they are not there. What is going on?

  • http://selfabsorbedboomer.blogspot.com/ Claude Scales

    Two of them are mounted on the wall of one of the rooms. Two more are being installed a branch in DUMBO.

  • Andrew Porter

    Nope!

  • KDHicks

    Seems like the places on Montague are taking a long time to open. Isn’t there supposed to be some chicken place — and a new un-named restaurant? Anyone have any clue if there’s any traction on the empty storefronts…?

  • Karl Junkersfeld

    Yea, a new great restaurant just had a grand opening on Montague. Did you miss it?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9fPwXk8nzY

  • Mike Suko

    Wanna check that CS?! I think they’ll be in a branch in an unpretty part of Fort Greene. Mind you, that branch probably deserves them more … along with quite a few $ from the real estate deal on CPW.

  • Andrew Porter

    Was in the Henry Street CVS yesterday, and noticed a lot more things are now behind locked barriers. Sign of the times, sigh.

  • http://selfabsorbedboomer.blogspot.com/ Claude Scales

    I think you’re right; it is Fort Greene. I’ve edited my comment accordingly.

  • Mary Kim

    I heard that Mad For Chicken is opening very soon. Taboonette, a middle eastern/mediterranean place, is opening where Five Guys used to be, but not for quite a while. Couldn’t find any update about BK Lobster.

  • KDHicks

    LOL whew I must have missed this.

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