Great Clusterfooga

From mcBrooklyn:

"After theGreat GoogsMooga food fest, "Nethermead meadow is in severe distress and is in far worse condition than it was left in from the fiasco last year," parks advocate Anne-Katrin Titze told Brooklyn Magazine.

Sections of the Nethermead will be off limits for most of the summer while the meadow is reseeded."

This is the sort of event that should be taking place down at the Red Hook cruise ship terminal. 

http://mcbrooklyn.blogspot.com/2013/05/because-of-googamooga-sections-of.html?m=1

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Streetsblog New York City » Mesmerizing! Citi Bikes Arrive

Awesome!

"More than 850 of the 6,000 bikes are in the stations as of this morning, according to NYC DOT."

http://www.streetsblog.org/2013/05/24/mesmerizing-citi-bikes-arrive/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Streetsblog+%28Streetsblog%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

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Severe Torrent of Feces Watch

"Kings County

Flash Flood Warning in effect until 5:30PM EDT THU"

Which means even as I typed this, vile torrents of feces are exploding forth from CSO outfalls into the Gowanus Canal.*

Ugh. 

* and from many, many other locations around NYC and the metropolitan area. 

In Mayoral Race, de Blasio’s Focus Is Beyond Manhattan - NYTimes.com

The New York Times profiles the next mayor of New York, Bill deBlasio:

"Mr. de Blasio likens Mr. Bloomberg, in approach if not results, to Robert Moses, and has amassed a running tally of the indignities and inequities in four boroughs: a yawning income gap, a surge in fines for small businesses, slighted schools and inadequate early childhood education.

He envisions an activist city government that addresses those disparities head on. Alone among the Democratic field, he calls for a tax increase on the rich, to bankroll universal prekindergarten."

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/22/nyregion/in-mayoral-race-de-blasios-focus-is-beyond-manhattan.html?ref=nyregion&_r=1&

1199 SEIU Endorses Bill de Blasio | Politicker

A good week for New York's next Mayor.
"Public Advocate Bill de Blasio's campaign for mayor got a significant
boost Friday, with the endorsement of the city's largest union: 1199
SEIU."

On the local front, deBlasio also received the endorsement of IND
Brooklyn (Independent Neighborhood Democrats) Thursday night. The
Quinn camp attempted to pack the club, but couldn't pull it off.

http://politicker.com/2013/05/1199-seiu-endorses-bill-de-blasio/


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Reconnecting the Subway with the Sky | ArchDaily

Article on lighting effects of the Oculus at the forthcoming Fulton
Street Transit Center.

"Central to this effort is an entry and retail pavilion containing an
eight-story dome capped with a glass oculus. The dome's interior
surface is lined with a cable net whose nearly 1,000 anodized aluminum
panels redirect sunlight into the subway system below.The cable net
and cladding system was based on a concept by James Carpenter Design
Associates."

http://www.archdaily.com/370396/reconnecting-the-subway-with-the-sky/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ArchDaily+%28ArchDaily%29&utm_content=Google+Reader


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Adolfo Carrión Raises Less Than $20,000 in Latest Period | Politicker

Carrion is just a fancy word for "dead meat".

"Mayoral candidate Adolfo Carrión Jr. raised just $18,000 over the
latest fundraising period, his campaign announced on Monday."

http://politicker.com/2013/05/adolfo-carrion-raises-less-than-20000-in-latest-period/

I'm still trying to figure out what game this guy is playing.

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