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November 4, 2009
It came from the Blogosphere...
I Love Franklin Ave., Last Remnant of the Original St. Mary's Getting a Makeover
Longtime Atlantic Yards watchdogs will remember the time when Bruce Ratner was eyeing St. Marys Hospital, which closed in 2005.
Washington Square Park, On Mike Bloomberg’s Mayoral “win” of Third Term, Plus Eight Articles Worth Reading (Updated: Nine!)
Lack of community input into Atlantic Yards is listed as one of Bloomberg's failings leading into his third term:
The one good thing that might come out of a Bloomberg third term is that the press and the politicians, especially in light of his narrow win, may at last stop thinking of him as such a “good mayor” and start looking more critically at his policies (and failings) on:
homelessness, poverty, construction and building, over-development, corporate giveaways, lack of affordable housing, privatization of parks and public space, rezonings destroying communities and small businesses, police misconduct (the RNC should not be forgotten), lack of public planning (not enough schools for all the new “luxury housing”), endless school testing with lackluster results and parental outrage at his educational “system,” lack of community input in just about everything (but to name a few: Coney Island, Washington Square Park, Willets Point, Atlantic Yards, Yankee Stadium, Union Square, Chinatown, Williamsburg/Greenpoint), enforcing of the “nanny state,” and more.
NetsAreScorching, BROOKLYN DOCUMENTARY FUNDRAISER
Recently, NAS spoke with documentary filmmaker Michael Galinsky about his project “The Battle for Brooklyn,” which follows the eminent domain battle being waged against the Atlantic Yards Development, the Brooklyn site that would contain a new arena for the Nets.
Starting today, Galinsky and his colleagues who have worked on the project are raising funds to help see their film to completion. They are preselling digital copies of the documentary and will also release media snippets on their site to help promote the film and to generate feedback.
ConeyRocks, A Great Night for Brooklyn Development
Election results from the never-nuanced ConeyRocks:
Bloomberg, Marty and Domenic all re-elected. Bloomberg even mentioned Coney jobs in his acceptance speech.
From Atlantic Yards to Coney Island year round development - We just had one great night! Go Brooklyn!
NoLandGrab: Um, haven't those three been in office for the last eight years? What'll make the next four any different, other than our getting even more sick of them?
Posted by lumi at November 4, 2009 7:08 PM