Results tagged “brooklynyards”

-- Holy schlamoli, the College Humor kids are rich, bitch! It's not Girls Gone Wild money, but still!

- And an L train crashed at the end of the line in Canarsie - WNBC is quick to report that the train isn't computer-operated at that point

Forgotten-NY has a great exploration of the Brooklyn Yards-- the streets around the intersection of Atlantic and Flatbush Avenues that will be replaced by Bruce Ratner's giant Nets stadium project. Highlights include the Underberg Building, the belgian block sidewalks at the entrance to the LIRR railyards, and lots of great protest signage. A very timely piece-- given Curbed's recent reports that demolition of these buildings is imminent (others, including Callalillie, went by the area and said that it doesn't look like anything started yet.) Whatever the case, it seems clear that many of these streets are not going to be around at this time next year.

Fighting words from Fernando Ferrer. He tells the Daily News Editorial Board that he would scale down the Brooklyn Nets arena plan "dramatically," noting that there were "apparent abuses of eminent domain." Mayor Bloomberg's campaign says that the Brooklyn Yards plan will bring more jobs and housing to the community, but even Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz says the plan should be scaled back, because that's what the community wants. Interesting! And in a speech in Stuyvesant Town, Ferrer invoked his two New York theme: "The average price of an apartment in Manhattan is well over $1 million - that may be affordable in Mike Bloomberg's New York, but not in the New York where the rest of New York lives." Amen. But is Ferrer's plan to take control of rent control from the state going to work? The Times says Bloomberg once supported that strategy, but the administrative costs were too much for the city to bear. Which makes Gothamist wonder how big would those costs be - like, are they that staggering that the city would have to raise taxes for residents that much? Anyway, the Mayor had it both ways when he discussed the Iraq War and MTA discounting, vaguely seeing both sides of situation. We call that the "I can't take a stand unless it involves knocking out Larry Silverstein"-12- days- before- election dance.