BROOKLYN — With the proposal to convert the roofless Tobacco Warehouse into a year-round cultural and entertainment center, attention is now being paid to what one observer has called the “unheralded” part of Brooklyn Bridge Park — the part that starts beneath the Brooklyn Bridge and runs east to Jay Street.
For three rainy days last week my wife Elaine and I were on Martha’s Vineyard, while President Obama and his family also were on the island. We didn’t meet, although we passed the compound where he was staying several times, and once we were stopped while his motorcade pulled out, bound, as we later learned, for lunch at Nancy’s Restaurant in Oak Bluffs. It was a small motorcade, with ordinary-looking vehicles.
One thing that distinguished our island visit from the
Some See It as a Charming Relic, But Change Is Coming Nonetheless
By Dennis Holt
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
BROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK — Brooklyn Bridge Park's long-anticipated Request for Proposals (RFP) to convert the historic but roof-less 19th century Tobacco Warehouse within the new waterfront park into a cultural or educational center - with a new roof may be coming soon.
The most important statements in a very bulky RFP are these:
The objective of the RFP includes "creating a new high-quality, year-round facility in the
CITY HALL — New York’s streets are safer by far than the streets in any other major American city. Our rate of fatal traffic crashes is less than half what it is in the ten next
BROOKLYN — Clues are beginning to surface about how the medical supply industry, including the insurance industry, will cope with healthcare reform. After a lifetime of caveat emptor, now the emphasis turns to the people rather than to those who make money off the people.
NEW YORK — The Charter Revision Commission appointed by Mayor Bloomberg voted Tuesday night to postpone by 11 years the effective date when a two-term limit would take effect, even if the voters approve it in referendum this fall.
After a motion to put the eight-year limit into effect
And Ratner Should Have Kept
Original ‘Miss Brooklyn’ Design
By Dennis Holt
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
BROOKLYN — So the Big Apple has another big brouhaha about big buildings. Mr. Chrysler almost bamboozled the original Empire State builders, and now something called Vornado Realty Trust is haunting the old 79-year old icon.
Why plant new trees when we are not protecting the old ones?
Hundreds of trees and thousands of tree limbs get damaged by NYC’s own garbage trucks. This typically happens when the Sanitation trucks are given passage near the curb to pick up the garbage as a result of alternate-side parking. The mere height of the truck ends up chopping off many tree limbs and injuring many tree trunks by scraping into them.
BROOKLYN — The following two paragraphs appeared in separate publications recently about the same general place — Williamsburg.
The first is from the New York Times:
“Glassy towers already line the waterfront and shiny new European cars snuggle the curbs. But the transformation of Williamsburg from gritty blue-collar redoubt to trendy nocturnal playground is taking another leap forward with the development of high-end apartments and a boutique hotel where guests can check in at the bar.”
I was pleased with the Eagle’s coverage of the Brooklyn district leader races in general and glad that the paper took the time to focus on this office, which gets too little attention.
By Prof. Patrick O’Halloran
New York City
College of Technology
DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — Before buying a home, people should consider how much they are presently spending on rent, transportation, savings, food and other necessities (Note: debt-income ratio). First-time homebuyers should never borrow the absolute maximum they can afford, they should allow room for the partial loss
BROOKLYN — “You’d look sweet upon the seat of a bicycle built for two.”
Alas, these remarks are not about a guy who cannot afford a carriage, nor a pretty damsel on a two-seater. They are about bikes, however, and how we are jeopardizing very good developments by cyclists
A vehicular tunnel under downtown Brooklyn? With all those subways going every which way and utility lines everywhere?
Believe it or not, that is one of five transportation options being considered to repair the infamous Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (BQE) from the almost unknown Sands Street to very well known Atlantic Avenue. This
There is the ominous sound of another run-up to war in the growing number of stories about Yemen. A recent New York Times Magazine cover story suggested that Yemen could become the next Afghanistan, and this past Sunday’s Times gave major attention to secretly American-engineered air strikes – carried out since late last year ostensibly by Yemeni government forces – against suspected al Qaeda outposts in Yemen. One of these in May inadvertently killed an important regional official, causing the {read more...}
NEW YORK — The “Pelham Parkway 87” are mature trees, primarily lindens, with some elms and oaks, which have the misfortune of living too close to a “road improvement”, as the $36 million reconstruction of the two-mile long roadway is euphemistically called. Not enough is being done by the
