Williamsburg Grassroots Fashion Revolt
Malin Landaeus, at her Williamsburg boutique (155 N 6th St), on the Williamsburg vintage fashion revolution.
Phil On Fire
Health Care Failed Folk Musician Vic Chesnutt
Trent’s Top Gallery Picks
The start of the new decade brings a slew of new art shows to North Brooklyn in which landscape plays a central role. Here are some of our favorites.
Walking the Walk…
North Third Comes Alive
White Stripes Film Premiere Tonight: Review
by Hunter Stuart
The idea behind the new documentary The White Stripes Under Great White Northern Lights (2009), which was directed by Emmett Malloy and which premieres tonight at SXSW in Austin, was for the iconic rock band The White Stripes to spend a summer touring Canada—playing in every province and territory, from Nunavut to Nova Scotia.
“We’d been all around the world,” the band’s songwriter and frontman Jack White tells us, “and Canada was the only country that turned us away. And we lived right across the street.” And so in the summer of 2007, the band (which consists only of Jack and his pretend-sister—note: actual ex-wife—Meg White) set out from their hometown of Detroit to begin their continental tour of Canada. [read more]
A Yen for Sushi, Buds Find Bozu
Sushi at Bozu in Williamsburg from Peter Staubs on Vimeo.
Local councilman sour on Domino project [NYPost]
The Daily Photo + Links
Photo by Carrie Beckman
Google gives city bikers bum steer [NYPost]
Starbucks NOT Coming to Williamsburg [Courier]
Free Cupcakes from Victoria Secret TODAY [nycolor]
Winston Chmielinski Solo Show @ Iona Sunday, 3/14 [wchmielinski]
Report finds borough’s retail gold coast [Courier]
Four advisers of Greek ancestry sue LPL for discrimination [InvestmentNews]
The Daily Photo + Links
Photo By Carrie Beckman
Community Board #1: New Domino Rejected [AShortStory]
Some Say Domino Being Left to Decay [CityApartmentsNY]
Alabama-Style Rap, Without the Punches [NYT]
Two Hooligans Arrested for American Apparel Attack [Racked]
Waterfront Watch: The City Approves Rose Plaza [ManhattanRealEstate]
Briefing on New Bike Lanes to Williamsburg Bridge [TheLo-Down]
The Daily Photo + Links
Photo by Carrie Beckman
No rush to sweeten Domino development’s transit improvements [NYPost]
“Retail Terrorists” with Blogs Attacked American Apparel in Williamsburg [NYMag]
The tastiest restaurant gossip — including a possible closing [BrooklynPaper]
Boutique Beat — Designer arrivals at Jumelle in Billyburg [NBC]
B-13 Bus Line’s Unlucky Number [Courier]
Where to hang out in Williamsburg if you are dating hipsters [scallywag]
Domino & CPC & Conflicts of Interest
Six Board Members with Connections to the Developer CPC, Casts a Questionable Light on the “New Domino” CB #1 Vote Tonight.
Story & Photos by Benjamin Lozovsky
As members of Community Board #1 prepare to vote on their recommendation for the proposed future development of the now closed Domino Sugar Factory, more questions than answers still remain. Undisclosed connections between certain community board members, and the Williamsburg based non-profit organizations they are associated with, to the developer of the site, have made an already tough process in clarity even more convoluted.
There’s been no shortage of discussion amongst community activists, media outlets, and even CB #1 board members themselves as to the lack of transparency emerging from Community Preservation Corporation’s development proposal. Calls for explanations and clarifications regarding profit projections, expected public subsidies, and incoming private investment capital have all been calmly and consistently ignored by CPC brass. [read more]
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