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August 25, 2009
It came from the Blogosphere...
The Local [Fort Greene/Clinton Hill], The Day: Ask the Candidates
The Local wants your questions for an online candidates' forum:
Three weeks from today, there will be a Democratic primary in the 35th District City Council race.
We’re going to be asking the candidates some tough questions. And we want you to help us come up with them.
Welcome to The Local’s virtual Town Hall meeting. The incumbent council member, Letitia James, and her two challengers, Delia Hunley-Adossa and Medhanie Estiphanos, have agreed to answer a series of questions on the issues affecting the district. Here’s how this will work:
From now till the end of the week, you, the readers, may submit questions in the comment box below. They should be questions that apply to all three candidates. Early next week, we will compile a bunch of questions and send them to the candidates. They will have a week to respond. We will print their answers the week after Labor Day, the week before the Sept. 15 primary.
Brooklyn Heights Blog, Biviano and Simon Spar Over Real Estate Contributions
Speaking of candidates, the battle over who took contributions from whom and who's tougher on Atlantic Yards continues in the race for the 33rd Council District.
The Doug Biviano campaign today questioned fellow 33rd District City Council candidate Jo Anne Simon’s connections to developers and real estate interests.
...Henry McCaslin, Biviano campaign spokesman, said “The fact is she has a long and troubling history of placating developers that goes back to the organization she created to divide the opposition to Atlantic Yards. It is not surprising that real estate interests are now lining up to fill her pockets in this campaign.”
Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn, "The Nowhere Nets"
The Devils have ratcheted up the Garden State feud taking a big dig at the "Nowhere Nets" who they'd like to see out of Izod and in The Rock in Newark. For those not paying close attention, the Bruce Ratner-owned Nets will no longer wear "New Jersey" on their away jerseys while simultaneously asking for NJ taxpayer-funded improvements at the Meadowlands arena.
Ampersand Seven, #236
I don't have a stoop of my own, but I do like the communal aspect of them. And while I'm sure that proposal of Frank Gehry's (as part of the ill-fated Atlantic Yards project) to build a giant stoop at the corner of Flatbush and Atlantic Avenues must've sounded great to someone in a board room meeting, how many of you would want to perch atop that chaotic intersection with fifty or a hundred of your closest strangers? The stoop, according to the proposal, would be "visible to 60,000 vehicles that pass through the intersection daily". Um, no thanks.
Posted by eric at August 25, 2009 10:56 AM