From our "it must me an election year" file… New York Daily News: Bush Gets Vote: The bright red roses of Bay Ridge are in full bloom, as are the lavender hibiscus, the towering yellow sunflowers and the perky marigolds. But yesterday, they all took a backseat to a giant white hydrangea bush, which […]
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Blue Pig Party Room Coming
Big sign in the window at the site formerly known as Cafe El Cubanito at 50 Henry Street heralds the arrival of the Blue Pig Party Room. One curmudgeon on the street muttered to us, "What? A Starbucks would be too easy?" Anyone have more info? BHB review: Blue Pig Sweetens Henry Street
‘Heights Dreams for Red Hook Pizzaman
BrooklynPapers.com: A Slice of Red Hook: Nearby on Coffey Street between Conover and Ferris streets, Vitale is putting up two new $1.2-million brick carriage-house-style office buildings that he will build to look like they could’ve been on the spot 110 years ago if Red Hook had ever been as wealthy as, say, Brooklyn Heights. “Why […]
Reality Check on BBP
NY Sun: Hillary and the Park: "…The effect of the lawsuit is to delay construction of a park that would benefit the neighborhood. Given the laws of supply and demand, the addition of 1,210 new units of housing, of any sort, even luxury housing, will take some of the pressure off in the Brooklyn housing […]
Clinton on One BBP: Flip-Flop or Realistic?
Last week Brooklyn Papers reported Clinton's questioning of the BBP scheme. This week's comments culled from what the paper calls a "painstakingly nuanced letter to the Brooklyn Bridge Development Corporation" are being characterized as a flip-flop. Brooklyn Papers: “Although I believe public revenues should support public assets … like parks and their maintenance, I […]
Love Lane Garage Going Condo?
The NY Daily News is reporting that the Love Lane Garage may be going the way of the dinosaur and coverted to housing. While we love new neighbors (especially the kind who support local business and contribute to the tax base), the loss of 400 parking spaces is downright scary. NY Daily News: Nearly a […]
Hillary Bashes BBP Condos
BrooklynPapers.com Senator Hillary Clinton criticized Brooklyn Bridge Park as “yet another luxury condo project” — and in doing so, became the highest-profile elected official to speak out against the housing, commercial and open-space development that’s being promoted as a park. Leaders of the Empire State Development Corporation — the state agency that owns the “park” […]
CB2 Hears More Atlantic Yards Jibba Jabba
Thursday's CB2 meeting brought no new arguments for or against the Atlantic Yards project according to local reports. Brooklyn Papers: Only two community members spoke in support of the project. Surrounded by four fellow supporters in hard hats and orange vests, both said they supported the project because it would bring construction jobs. Brooklyn Downtown […]
BBPDC Foes Accused of Skullduggery
BrooklynPapers.com : A lawyer for the state-run Brooklyn Bridge Park Development Corporation openly mocked a community lawsuit against the proposed waterfront development as “skullduggery” at a pre-trial hearing on Wednesday. “This is a strange case from any vantage point,” said the BBDC lawyer, David Paget, at a hearing in state Supreme Court to determine if […]
BrooklynPapers Recaps CB Meetings
BrooklynPapers.com : It was neither the best of times, nor the worst of times, but three community boards surrounding Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards mega-development held hastily scheduled, little-publicized and legally irrelevant public hearings last night (Thursday, Aug. 3) to give residents a chance to vent. Little was said that wasn’t said before, but racial and […]
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