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May 10, 2007
It came from the Blogosphere...
Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn, BLOGFEST TONIGHT
The Brooklyn Blogfest is TONIGHT: Thursday, May 10th at 8 p.m.
Location: The Old Stone House in Park Slope on Fifth Avenue between 3rd and 4th Streets
IMPORTANT NOTE: Only 110 people can fit in the Old Stone House. A seat will be held for everyone who has RSVPed until 8:05. Your name will be on the list at the door. After that, we will let everyone in until we hit the magic number. The best bet is to arrive early.
CRog, Pop-Up Cities
If you see it on the Internet, it must be true:
Frank Gehry is following this trend in downtown Brooklyn with his “Atlantic Yards Project.” He is intergrating new buildings with the old, not completely creating a pop-up city but that is the idea… To build a bunch of buildings that fill-in the current holes (or is it space?) with buildings that look like they’ve been there for 50 years.
NoLandGrab: Actually it really IS A POP-UP CITY — Bruce Ratner does NOT plan to spare any of the historic buildings in the project footprint.
The Knickerblogger, Christmas Truce
One "right-wingnut" calls a christmas truce when everyone agrees that Mayor Bloomberg is pretty mediocre and "has supported a half-billion dollars in direct and indirect subsidies for the Atlantic Yards apartment, office, and arena complex in Brooklyn being built by fellow fat cat and subsidy king Bruce Ratner."
From this week's cover story in The Weekly Standard:
Had Rudy proposed a similar level of subsidy for a project like Atlantic Yards, the liberals would have howled with rage...
Knickerblogger rants on:
Anway, now the mystrey of why Mike has been shelling out favors to Ratner and others despite them being no benefit for the city is clear - short term it looks good on paper (though long term it is not) and he also is lining up political favors for what promises to be a comical run for president.
The Gowanus Lounge, Community Input 101: Did ESDC Forget Council of Brooklyn Neighborhoods?
It's a little thing, but we couldn't help but note the irony dripping from this email from the Council of Brooklyn Neighborhoods, which is a broad based coalition of Brooklyn organizations, to the Empire State Development Corporation. You might recall the ESDC announced on Monday it was finally appointing an ombudsman to monitor the Atlantic Yards project.
Posted by lumi at May 10, 2007 6:52 AM