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Royal Wedding Festivities in Our Area

Unless you’re of the same mind as Mark Oppenheimer in Slate, you may be looking forward to Friday’s royal nuptials. If you’re enough of a hard-core Anglophile or insomniac, you can hie yourself to The Archway, where Water Street crosses under the Manhattan Bridge in DUMBO, at 5:30 a.m. for a free giant screening of […]

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Hearing on Alternatives to Housing Yields Diverse Responses; What is a “Perched Wetland”?

About fifty people showed up at St. Francis College yesterday evening to speak (and a number of others showed up to listen) about the draft report issued by Bay Area Economics, the consultants hired by the Brooklyn Bridge Park board to evaluate alternatives to luxury housing and a hotel as sources of revenue to defray […]

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