Monday Links: Tragedy in Midwood
Thousands Join Midwood Father Mourning Seven With “Faces of Angels” [NY Times] New York Mourns Seven Young Victims of Fire in Midwood [NY Times] Sabbath Routine Plus Ages of Homes in Brooklyn Equal Dangerous Fire Risk, Officials Say [NY Times] NBC’s “The Slap” Finds Resonance in Park Slope [NY Times] New LED Streetlights Shine Too…
Thousands Join Midwood Father Mourning Seven With “Faces of Angels” [NY Times]
New York Mourns Seven Young Victims of Fire in Midwood [NY Times]
Sabbath Routine Plus Ages of Homes in Brooklyn Equal Dangerous Fire Risk, Officials Say [NY Times]
NBC’s “The Slap” Finds Resonance in Park Slope [NY Times]
New LED Streetlights Shine Too Brightly for Some in Windsor Terrace [NY Times]
Gravesend High School Accused of Massive Grade-Fixing Scheme [NY Post]
All Historical City Court Records Were Destroyed in January ‘Burg Warehouse Blaze [NY Daily News]
Mayor Offers $1K to Landlords Willing to Rent to Homeless [NY Daily News]
Neil Diamond Discusses Brooklyn Roots, Great Guitars [WSJ]
Borough Park’s Latest Medical Facilities May Simplify Seeing the Doctor [WSJ]
Rabsky’s Rezoning Request for Broadway Triangle May Hinge on Councilman Levin [Crain’s]
Travel The Decades at Crown Heights’s Retro Bar Two Saints [Gothamist]
City Point Phase II Construction Update [Field Condition]
Permits Filed for Development Replacing Key Food in Clinton Hill [NYY]
Revealed: Our Lady of Lourdes Redevelopment, 1 DeSales Place, Bushwick [NYY]
Jonathan Rose Closes on Brooklyn Heights Bank for $36.5 Million [TRD]
Detail of a painting by Baret Boisson.
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Photo by Baret Boisson
The LED street lights in WT are a real issue. There must be some manner of lowering the intensity or installing filters.
They shouldn’t be, if they’re designed properly. I’m not sure if they’ve installed new lights, or just changed the actual lighting element within the old housing, but LEDs are supposed to be much more targeted, directing their light directly down at the road, rather than up and out. But if the housings are angled incorrectly, they could be shining into houses. Proper alignment was likely never considered by the city, because it wasn’t relevant with the old lights.