Bloomberg To PBA On Hiring Cops To Catch Speeders: No Way! - Daily News

This is another edition of Bloomberg being right.  (And anyone who says I don't give credit where credit is due can go scratch. Just like the people who aren't willing to give Bloomberg credit when he does good policy can go scratch)

"For those in the PBA that think that this will get us to hire more cops, I don't know how to break this to you, but - No!" Bloomberg said. "That's just not going to happen."Bloomberg last week ripped into state law makers - calling by name Republican leader Dean Skelos and Brooklyn Senators Marty Golden and Simcha Felder - as "reckless and negligent" for blocking the cameras, and said they'll bear part of the blame when children are run down in the streets.

Bloomberg is absolutely right to point the finger at these three obstructionists.  All three will have blood on their hands if this is not rectified immediately.

The speed is too damn high!

/McMillan

NYC Murder Rate Down Again So Far in 2013 -- Daily Intelligencer

Incredible. Great news, and I'm not sure what the driver is, but I'll
take it. Maybe we really are over that lead poisoning hump and his
will be a lasting trend? Only time will tell.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/04/nyc-murder-rate-down-again-so-far-in-2013.html

Scam Company Dialing Brooklyn Phone Numbers

I got a call from these hucksters on my cell a week or two ago. Seemed like an obvious scam so I just hung up, made an annoyed comment to my wife and forgot about it.  But apparently I'm not alone:

Beware the scam phone calls announcing, "You indicated you were interested in a position in a survey."

I suspect the calls are actually automated - the pauses were unnatural and even the voice seemed artificially flat to me.

New York State Senator Malcolm Smith, Councilman Dan Halloran among arrests in corruption probe | 7online.com

Wow.  Can't say I'm surprised about Smith and Halloran.  Never heard of the others. 

NEW YORK (WABC) -- Authorities say New York State Senator Malcolm Smith and New York City Councilman Dan Halloran were arrested Tuesday morning as part of an ongoing corruption case.

I'm not going to dig through the archives, but I know I've written some critical posts on these two bumbling, lying dirtbags in the past.

Eschaton: What Is An Infrastructure Bank?

Another edition of What Atrios Said:

I've asked this question a few times, and never had an answer. It
seems to involve a small amount of government money which can obtain
magical leverage (how?) from the free market ponies that then build
infrastructure and after stealing all of our underpants there is
profit.

At a time when the government can borrow for negative real interest rates.

(It's bad enough I stole his whole post, but I'm also stealing from his
style book. I should be ashamed of myself, but I'm not, because its an
excellent question.)

This ideological obsession with public-private partnerships is unhealthy.  Efficiency be damned, let's create a private skim, which creates a constituency, so we can sell infrastructure investment.

It's cynical, graft-laden crap.

Vinegar Hill’s Historic Cobblestones And Greenway Implementation

No exception for the Vinegar Hill NIMBY preservationists. The local
effort to thwart the Greenway and accessibility improvements on this
stretch is absolutely disgraceful.

A bunch of bullshit arguments thrown at the wall to stop a worthwhile project.

CB6 Environmental Protection, Permits and Licenses Tonight

Feel the excitement!  6:30 tonight at PS32.

Review and discussion of Brooklyn CB6 response to the EPA's Gowanus Canal Superfund Site's proposed remedial action plan, as released in December 2012.


Presentation and review of an on-premises liquor license renewal application submitted to the State Liquor Authority on behalf of 196 Fifth LLC, at 196 Fifth Avenue (Between Union/Berkeley Streets) in our district.

Continued discussion and review of an on-premise liquor license application submitted to the State Liquor Authority on behalf of Nick Cora Bella Ltd at 274 4th Avenue (between Carroll Street/Garfield Place).

Presentation and review of a new on-premises liquor license application submitted to the State Liquor Authority on behalf of Littleneck Group LLC at 288 3rd Avenue (between Carroll Street/President Street).

Presentation and review of a new on-premises liquor license application submitted to the State Liquor Authority on behalf of Broccolino Corp. at 446A Dean Street (between Flatbush Avenue/5th Avenue).

Presentation and review of a new on-premises liquor license application submitted to the State Liquor Authority on behalf of 209 4th Avenue (between Union Street/Sackett Street).

Presentation and review of a new on-premises liquor license application submitted to the State Liquor Authority on behalf of Downslope LLC at 420 Carroll Street (between Gowanus Canal and 3rd Avenue)
Following on the heels of Brooklyn Boulders and Royal Palms Shuffleboard Club turning Gowanus into a destination for clustered, active recreation, Downslope seeks to pair an indoor toboggan run with a rooftop lodge where patrons can enjoy an apres ski in the club's geothermal hot tubs, which will be fed with oyster-filtered water from the neighboring canal.  In addition to known carcinogens, the canals waters are known to be replete with minerals found in the highly prized therapeutic springs found in volcanic regions.

Presentation and review of a new on-premises liquor license application submitted to the State Liquor Authority on behalf of Pierre Loti Park Slope at 78 5th Street (between Prospect Place/Saint Marks Avenue).

Presentation and review of a new on-premises liquor license application submitted to the State Liquor Authority on behalf of Hardwood Productions LLC. at 375A 5th Avenue (between 5th Street/6th Street).

Presentation and review of an Alteration to a current on-premises liquor license application submitted to the State Liquor Authority as well as a new unenclosed sidewalk cafe permit application submitted to the Department of Consumer Affairs on behalf of Simmons Provisions of NY LLC at 847A Union Street (between 6th and 7th Avenues).

Presentation and review of a new unenclosed sidewalk cafe permit application submitted to the Department of Consumer Affairs on behalf of LEAHLALA LLC dba Abilene at 442 Court Street (between 3rd Place and 2nd Place) to permit 8 tables and 32 seats.


P.S. 32 Samuel Mills Sprole
317 Hoyt Street, Auditorium
(between Union/President Streets)
Brooklyn NY 11231