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June 25, 2009
Bailout-free news round-up
NYPost.com NETS BLOG, Psycho T or T-Will or. . .
Money, staff, scouts — and unis — are in short supply for the New Jersey Nets.
And now they've gone too far. No more blue uniforms.
The Nets have slashed inside personnel by 1/3. They've mandated summer Friday furloughs for office workers. They've whacked scouts (at least two), cut assistants' salaries all with their eyes of moving to Brooklyn, which remember was going to happen by 2008.
They are holding their draft party in New York. That's a slap in the face too but here's the kick in the gut.
The Nets are dropping their blue road jerseys. Why? Because they say "New Jersey."
So they keep their home whites that say Nets and those red things that make them all look like giant blood clots. Blood clots that say "Nets" on the front, not "New Jersey." Personally, we like the blue uniforms but again, this is all about moving across the river. Still, couldn't they have waited until they at least put a shovel in the ground before spitting on New Jersey?
Yahoo! Sports, Draft buzz: Shaq gone, Amare on the move?
Nets sources say that if owner Bruce Ratner is going to bail on the Brooklyn arena and sell his team to cut his losses, ownership groups who would potentially purchase the team would rather he doesn’t gut it.
Nets Daily, ESDC Approves New Plan for Atlantic Yards
Don't be fooled by the headline — this item's about tickets for Nets' games in Newark, not another bailout.
The next presale for the Newark Exhibition Series has started. The presale code is “prucenter”. Regular ticket sales start on Friday at 11 am.
The Moment [NY Times blog], The Concierge | Good Dive Bar Needed
Dear Concierge, I’m looking for a good dive bar.
...In Brooklyn, he likes Freddy’s Bar & Backroom across from the police precinct just off Flatbush Avenue at Dean Street. (Get there before it’s knocked down to make room for the Atlantic Yards.)
The Epoch Times, Community Gardens May Become Protected Under Parks Department
In a city known for concrete and skyscrapers, the small community-run garden often gets overlooked. But in neighborhoods where clean air, open space, and fresh produce are hard to come by, these volunteer-run gardens are vital, be they producers of flowers or vegetables.
...The constant tug-of-war between housing developers and preservationists in this land-scarce city put gardeners in a tough place.
Brooklyn Council Member Letitia James expressed concern for the gardens in her district when the 16 Atlantic Yards are built. “The gardens will be in the shadows,” she said. “I don't know how they will survive.”
NoLandGrab: "16 Atlantic Yards?" [Shudder] One Atlantic Yards is more than we can take.
Fast Company, Frank Gehry's Rx for New Orleans
Has Frank Gehry learned his lesson? Apparently he can do context.
In the wake of these letdowns Gehry last week unveiled his most modest plan in memory, a humble shotgun house to be built in the sixth ward of New Orleans. He designed the modular shotgun house, known as the "Modgun," with urban planner Robert Tannen (shown with model
leftright).No titanium swoops here. Like traditional shotgun houses, it has an elevated pitched roof for natural cooling and stilts for flooding. It will be built on a rundown block on Ursuline Avenue, but it's meant as a prototype that can be duplicated in the various neighborhoods still blighted four years after Hurricane Katrina.
Posted by eric at June 25, 2009 1:54 PM