So the Guggenheim is full steam ahead on their abandoned lot project on First Street, which will house a temporary "lab" in which the community can discuss important things—for example, the theme is going to partially focus on "the urgent need for environmental and social responsibility." After its run in New York City (August 3rd to October 16th), the 2,500-square-foot structure is going to be flown to Asia and Germany (hitting nine cities total)—something tells us Thom Yorke would disapprove. Because when a project is focused around the environment and sustainability, shouldn't one be thinking about carbon footprints?
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Come Discuss "Environmental Responsibility" Where The Guggenheim Chopped Down This Healthy Tree
Not-So-Empty Lot Outrages Brooklyn Locals
There's an empty lot on Pacific Street (near Smith Street) in Brooklyn that's got locals outraged; they've brought their complaints to the Daily News, and say the overgrown lot has become a haven for some unsavory characters. The empty space is right next door to Pacifico restaurant, and one employee there says she's heard everything from fighting to moaning emanating from the lot late at night.
NYPD, Towing Lot Deny Holding Brooklynite's Car
The latest adventure of Brooklynite Jake Bronstein raises an interesting question. To start off, he was loaned a vehicle by a car company that he custom picked the design for (it includes pink dots, a detail that is important later on in the story). Put aside any problems you may have with the corporate shilling for a moment: the car is missing! Or is it? He explains:
The police said they didn’t tow it; their automated number said they didn’t tow it; hell, even my frequent and frantic calls to all of the city’s tow-lots all turned up the same response… “the NYPD does not have this car.” I found a meter-man who said that on occasion cars get towed. And sometimes, just sometimes, they wind up in the system with the wrong plate number. When that happens, you’re pretty much screwed because the city will say they don’t have the car… and because they won’t let you walk around the lots they tow them to, that’ll pretty much be the end of it. Forever.Taking matters into his own hands, he headed to the Brooklyn Navy Yard towing lot with his girlfriend who managed to scale the brick wall and take one photo before the guards came running. In that photo? His pink-dotted car. The problem: the NYPD and the lot both say his car is not in their possession. During his last call this morning, after giving them the VIN#, plate number, and other assorted details, they told him they didn't have it and that "it would be impossible to take a picture of a car inside."
Man Takes Land, City Takes it Back
This land is your land, this land is...well, it's The Man's land. One budding entrepreneur in Brooklyn learned that the hard way yesterday as his nearly decade-long scam came to an end. WNBC reports that Darren Miller has been using four acres of city property in East New York as a parking lot which he charged customers $200/month to use. "Hundreds of tractor-trailers and other vehicles were ordered removed Tuesday when police moved in to shut the site down." Miller was arrested and charged with trespassing for refusing to close the lot, but his lawyer contends that this "small businessman" should own the property by now under "adverse possession," something he's been fighting in court since 2005. Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes will be holding a news conference today, as Miller is arraigned in criminal court. Fox News has more on the bizarre case.
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