Three Story Commercial Build for Atlantic Avenue?

Those are double height commercial floors, so more like a 5-6 story
building height equivalent.

I'll be glad to see that parking lot go. Atlantic Avenue has changed
so much in the last 10 years.

http://www.brownstoner.com/blog/2013/05/three-story-commercial-build-for-atlantic-avenue/


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Regency Carts Sale Hits Public Records

Big sale in Gowanus. I've had my eye on this Carroll Street building
site for a long time.

http://www.brownstoner.com/blog/2013/05/regency-carts-sale-hits-public-records/


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A Rare, Pristine Subway Station: See It While You Can - NYTimes.com

Smith-9th Street getting some attention and runway moment from the NYT. 

"But for now, and perhaps for a limited time only, the Smith-Ninth Street station high above the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, recently reopened beneficiary of a two-year-long, $32 million renovation project, is the mass-transit portal of many New Yorkers' dreams.

So if you want to experience a fresh, pristine New York City subway station – before the tracks become covered with brake dust, trash and rat prints, and the walls and windows defaced by man and nature – you'd better get on it."

Click through for photo gallery. 

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/28/a-rare-pristine-subway-station-see-it-while-you-can/

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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&