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November 12, 2009
It came from the Blogosphere...
The Brooklyn Ink, Popcorn Fires
When an overheated popcorn machine caused smoke to billow at the UA Court Street Stadium 12 on September 13, the theater’s employees should have known what to do. After all, a similar, and more serious, fire had occurred at the Brooklyn Heights movie theater just six weeks prior, on August 4.
But according to locals who were at the theater the night of the fire, no one at the theater did anything.
...UA Court Street Stadium 12, which is owned by Forest City, real estate mogul Bruce Ratner’s corporation, has had previous violations issued, mostly for elevator regulation issues, but none recently.
...The theater did not say what policies it has put in place to prevent a third fire, or if it has implemented new emergency procedures if a third fire does occur.
Novel Spaces, Fidelity in Writing
I met a new novel yesterday.
Not a new idea for a novel -- I had that a few weeks ago when a conversation with a black historian gave me an idea for another vampire novel in my Testaments. Basic premise, rough outline of the story arc, new characters...I made a few pages of notes in my Moleskine on the subway and kept going.
No. This was a new novel, delivered almost as if on a golden platter, the beginning of the story, where it went, the theme and subtext, a range of interesting people I didn’t know, a few characters from the book I’m working on now in a new place in their lives, and the chance to skewer Atlantic Yards and the whole current crop of mega-developers reshaping Brooklyn around me. Sweet.
EYEBALL-BLINK COMIX, good articles on the throne
When I wrote about how I was coming out against Bloomberg last time I did not know how to link from the blogger site to sources. Now I do. Here are five articles related to my criticism of Mayor Bloomberg and his lack of personal accountability. I'm just going to list what the articles say in brief: Bloomberg supported his buddies Tishman-Speyers take over of stuytown, made Bruce Ratner his deputy mayor and gave him a sweet deal with Atlantic Yards development project.
Posted by eric at November 12, 2009 12:49 PM