The Waterfront Preservation Alliance of Greenpoint and Williamsburg is sponsoring a Don’t Demo Domino Bake Sale and Q & A hosted by The City Reliquary on Saturday, March 24th from 7-9pm at 370 Metropolitan Avenue in Williamsburg.The history, preservation and zoning of the site will be discussed by experts in these areas in short, presentations […]
Park Slope Neighbors would like to extend a great big thank you to the 2,000 of you who have taken the time to sign our petition opposing the DOT’s plan to convert 6th and 7th Avenues to one-way traffic flow, and to the 700 or so residents who turned out Thursday night to make sure […]
XØ Projects Inc and Rooftop Films in association with FROGG invite you to a screening of Brooklyn Matters a new documentary film about Atlantic Yards by Isabel Hill No single project will have a more drastic and long-lasting impact on Brooklyn than the proposed Atlantic Yards development. This uncommon proposal, however, is mostly misunderstood. Brooklyn […]
From Courier-Life 03/10/2007DUMBO BID pushes new pedestrian mallBy Stephen Witt One of Brooklyn’s most upscale areas is also a divided neighborhood. Now, however, the DUMBO Business Improvement District (BID) is looking to link the east and west sides of the neighborhood. Under the plan, the archway of the Manhattan Bridge at Water Street between Adams […]
From The Brooklyn Paper Wild meeting over the Green ChurchBy Matthew Lysiak Everyone in Bay Ridge believes the Green Church should be saved — everyone except the parishioners at this century-old house of worship, that is. Church officials and preservationists squared off with parishioners on Monday night at an “emergency meeting” over the fate of […]
From the Brooklyn Rail – a very neat article about both this interesting building and how it (and by extrapolation other buildings) got designated.Birth of the Concrete Jungleby Laura K. Raskin To love New York City is to fall for concrete and steel. Maybe it’s the iconic Brooklyn Bridge that raises the hair on your […]
Barry Lewis lecturing at the Metropolitan Museum of ArtVictorian Brooklyn:Olmsted, Vaux and the Greening of the American CityThursday, March 22, 2007, 6pm. $22.00 for more info,http://barrylewis.org for the Met’s online catalogue:http://www.metmuseum.org/events/ev_cl_program.asp?EventId={C8A5A739-9574-4688-A22F-BB6EC40DDA64} Tickets not available online. Purchase at the door.To purchase in advance, call the Met at 212.570.3949 ($9.00 handling fee if purchased by phone, fax […]
Walentas ‘Independence’ plan back on trackBrooklyn Papers – Brooklyn,NY,USA Community Board 6 rejected the Walentas’s original plan for an 81-foot building in 2005, and the Landmarks Preservation Commission refused to give the company permission to demolish a smaller building on Atlantic Avenue, next to the property, in 2006.But it seems the kinks have been worked […]
From Aaron Brashear, Concerned Citizens of Greenwood Hts., [email protected] Please join our fellow activists and neighbors in Sunset Park at their first rally and march against the proposed out-of-context 12 story building at 420 42nd St. This building may become the “poster child” for what kind of non-contextual development might occur in Sunset Park if […]
From the Brookyln Downtown Star Park Slope Consults Its Inner OracleBy Darius VanSluytmanDateline : Thursday, March 08, 2007 Amid a rash of new developments, increasing rents, and Mayor Bloomberg’s estimate that one million new residents will arrive in the city by 2030, Park Slope residents pondered the future of their beloved neighborhood last week. The […]
