Stephanie Thayer and The Open Space Alliance
Interview By Lucas Kavner The Open Space Alliance walks a complicated line. On the one hand you have a community-based organization that, through private fundraising, works to improve and create public spaces and…
Walk Don’t Destroy Walk-a-thon
A hot button issue during the race for the 33rd district City Council seat was the Atlantic Yards. People who never mentioned the proposal to me were now talking about it. I was thrilled…
Did You Know….?
Did you know? Asian Longhorned Beetle’s were first discovered in the US in McCarren Park. The beetle was first detected in the Greenpoint/Williamsburg (depending on who you ask) park in 1996. The NY…
Wild End of an Era at Community Board #1
The Vinny Abate Era officially came to a close on Tuesday night in Williamsburg, after a turbulent meeting that had to be one of the wilder ones in the chairman’s nearly 30-year tenure….
Broadway Goes Public; Domino Left Waiting
Eliot Brown at the New York Observer reports that the proposed rezoning of the Broadway Triangle has begun the seven-month public approval process. The “long list” of projects announced by City Planning Monday…
Lentol Responds to Seeing Domino’s Secret Profit Margins
Assemblyman Joseph Lentol—who was quoted in a story published in the Greenpoint Star, yesterday, issued a press release today, regarding the NYC Housing Preservation & Development’s financial projections of CPC’s Domino development—making his opinions…