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May 17, 2007
It came from the Blogosphere...
Frank Lynch's Flickr, The Frog God
There's a story behind a seriously buff frog, though alas, he can't protect all of Brooklyn from Ratner.
Gentrification in Brooklyn : A Home for Everyone, "Bushwick has become the place with a question of ownership"
A new blog has a serious article about gentrification issues in Bushwick. Ft. Greene resident and Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn Advisory Boardmember Sean Elder attempts to offer a balanced view on gentrification in his own neighborhood.
Urbanseashell — a collection, 2nd Annual Brooklyn Blogfest 2007—A Success!
From Lisa di Liberto's take on last week's Brooklyn Blogfest:
As Louise [Crawford] said it is great to actually meet other bloggers face to face which is what sparked this event. Eric McClure, the Atlantic Yards Campaign Coordinator introduced himself to me during the sponsored festivities afterwards. I post information he emails out to his list in order to further spread the awareness of the Atlantic Yards issue. Eminent domain can affect anyone anywhere. Lumi Rolley of No Land Grab was one of the featured speakers. We met each other as well and Lumi links to my blog when I post Eric's information. It was a pleasure to meet them both. In addition to which I met a lot of great people that evening.
NoLandGrab: For those of you who know Lumi and Eric, you'd think that they'd find a more efficient way to share information on Atlantic Yards activities than through di Liberto's blog.
iloveBrooklyn.com, Blogging and Community
I-heart-Brooklyn-dot-com thanks Bruce for making us bloggy in their Blogfest wrap-up:
According to Outside.in, a neighborhood blog aggregator, Brooklyn is the bloggiest neighborhood in the country. Whoot whoot!! We can all thank Bruce Ratner and his grandiose Atlantic Yards scheme to make as much money as possible at one time for that, but I digress.
Knickerblogger, The "New" ESDC- Business As Usual
One blogger's reaction to the Empire State Development Corporation Downstate Chairman's claim that taxpayers, "don’t want us to give money to companies that don’t create jobs, or to corporations that don’t really need our help."
As for his 'trickle down' economics, newsflash: business are leaving new york because of the high tax burden. When you give tax breaks and subsidies to certain companies to others at the expense of others, the others will leave if they can.
People With Ideas, at mefedia.com, Brooklyn Blogfest 2007
What makes Brooklyn bloggers different?
Many of the blogs also express the creative energy and unique beauty of Brooklyn, an aesthetic that is influenced by the heavy industry of the past, the classic beauty of the stone architecture, the many natural spaces, and the constant ebb and flow of development and gentrification. The primary issue of the day is the massive increase in real estate development that is occurring, specifically Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards project, which will massively change Brooklyn in one fell swoop.
Posted by lumi at May 17, 2007 6:14 AM