Friday Links

Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Photo by bluejake.
Fed Leaves Benchmark Rate Unchanged [NY Times]
Opera on a Tanker in Red Hook [NY Daily News]
Sprout Home Soon To Open in Williamsburg [NY Sun]
Illegal Industrial Conversions May Soon Be Fined [NY Sun]
Trader Joe’s May Open in Brooklyn [NY Sun]
Congestion Pricing Could Enable Free Public Transit [NY1]
Bushwickers Want to Secede from Brooklyn [Brooklyn Paper]
Plans To Untangle Grand Army Plaza Knot [Brooklyn Paper]
Some Permits Issued for 360 Smith [Gowanus Lounge]
Albee Mall Out, Multi-Use Development In [Downtown Star]
Shvo Registers 525ClintonAve.com [Set Speed]
94th Precinct Clipping Bikes on Bedford [Streets Blog]
Feb 15, 2012 | 11:04 AM