Daily Links
November 6, 2009
Friday Links
Bloomberg Asks for Patience on M.T.A. Plan [NY Times]
Reyna Breaks With a Formidable Patron [NY Times]
It's Plaza Sweet on Schermerhorn Street [NY Post]
Artists Transform Fort Greene Laundromat [NY Daily News]
Arby's Opening Soon in Fulton Mall [NY Daily News]
Sustainable Living Structure for Flatbush Building? [Brooklyn Paper]
Guerilla Marketing Campaign for 23rd Street Project [Brooklyn Eagle]
"Pokey" Award for Slowest Bus Presented [Gothamist]
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November 5, 2009
Thursday Links
Bus and Subway President Quits in M.T.A. Shake-Up [NY Times]
Some Wall Street Bonuses To Hit Pre-Downturn Highs [NY Times]
Getting a Grip on Your Property's Value [NY Times]
There's No Moving Al Vann Out Yet [NY Daily News]
No Love for Bloomberg from Brooklynites [NY Daily News]
Elves Invade Dumbo [Brooklyn Eagle]
Brooklynites Rush to Rescue Pigeon [Gothamist]
Photo by flatbushnelson
November 4, 2009
Wednesday Links
Congress Poised to Keep Homebuyers’ Tax Credit [NY Times]
BMW Driver Shot in Williamsburg [NY Post]
Resident Mocks PLG 'Rathole' With Phony Ad [NY Daily News]
$55 Million from Feds for Atlantic Yards [NY Daily News]
Corrections Officer Fatally Strikes Pedestrian In Brooklyn [NY1]
Tenants of Brooklyn Apartments Protest Conditions, Harassment [Brooklyn Eagle]
Photo by benbrlsq
November 3, 2009
Tuesday Links
Voices From the Boroughs: Bay Ridge [NY Times]
Photo: Bloomberg Bakes at Cakeman Raven [NY Times]
Tish James' Republican Opponent for Council [NY Times]
Beat-trial defense blames Orthodox rivals [NY Post]
Housing honcho beats corruption rap [NY Post]
Crown Heights Woman Monitors Leaves [NY Daily News]
Fixers Collective Meets Weekly in Gowanus [NY Daily News]
Photo by emilyshu
November 2, 2009
Monday Links
Thompson's Start with Brooklyn Political Machine [NY Times]
Mortgages: Fraud Watch for Homeowners [NY Times]
Al Vann Facing Challenge for Council Seat [NY Times]
A Seaside Enclave, Without the Kitsch [NY Times]
Block-a-Thon in Park Slope [NY Times]
They Heeded the Call of an Old Haunt’s Slices [NY Times]
Bloomberg Gets Endorsed at Tom's Diner [NY Post]
Killer Mom Allowed to Go to Son's Funeral [NY Post]
Crime Up 22% in Williamsburg This Year [NY Post]
Your Guide to Bedford-Stuyvesant [NY Daily News]
Explosion in Greenpoint Was for Movie Shoot [NY Daily News]
Rapper Shot and Killed in Bed Stuy [Rap Weekly]
They All Came From Brooklyn [Gothamist]
Photo by chicapoquita
October 30, 2009
Friday Links
Manhattan Bridge Subway Lines to Be Disrupted [NY Times]
Staying With Newfound Friends, for a Fee [NY Times]
State Subpoenas Hotelier in Suit Against Contractor [NY Post]
Canarsie Teen Attacked, Nearly Raped [NY Post]
Pedestrian Plazas Take Back Schermerhorn Street [Brooklyn Paper]
Ground Broken for New Italian American Center [Brooklyn Eagle]
L Train Real-Time Subway Screens Reach Bedford [Gothamist]
October 29, 2009
Thursday Links
Brooklyn Man Charged in Massive Identity Theft [NY Times]
State Crowns Two Brooklyn Trees as Champions [NY Times]
Renovation Trifecta in Prospect Heights [NY Times]
Brooke Astor Award goes to Brooklyn nonprofit [NY Post]
Bergen Street Condo Sells for $846,000 [NY Post]
East River Tolls May Not Be Dead [NY Daily News]
150 Rally to Make Vacant Condos Affordable [Brooklyn Eagle]
Group Wants City to Buy Up Failed Condos [Gotham Gazette]
Photo by mynameisellen
October 28, 2009
Wednesday Links
Fort Greene's Week in Crime [NY Times]
Gambino Geezer Guilty of Racketeering [NY Post]
Classical Music Push at PS 321 [NY Daily News]
NYC College Tech Constructs Safety Facility [NY Daily News]
F Train Weekend Shuttles Done for Now [Brooklyn Paper]
Ground Broken on Kensington Green Library [Brooklyn Eagle]
Group Wants City to Buy Up Failed Condos [Gotham Gazette]
Photo by CrystalConscious
October 27, 2009
Tuesday Links
Police Cite 7,500 Drivers for Cellphone Use [NY Times]
A New Clubhouse for Dems on Putnam [NY Times]
Sex Scandal & Lawsuit at Poly Prep [NY Daily News]
First Acorn, Now Working Families Under Attack [NY Post]
413 7th Ave Sells for $1.48 Million [Brooklyn Eagle]
Teen Shot in Front of Brownsville School [NY1]
Photo by Janna Chan
October 26, 2009
Monday Links
Some Underwater Homeowners Turn to 'Strategic Defaults' [NY Times]
Bloomberg Sets Record for His Own Spending on Elections [NY Times]
Fire Trucks Collide on Rain-Slicked Street, Injuring 12 [NY Times]
Some Neighborhoods See Rise in Shootings [NY Daily News]
Cyclone Operator Inducted into Hall of Fame [NY Daily News]
MacDonough Block Party Takes Place Again [NY Daily News]
Bomb Scare in the Burg [Gothamist]
Photo by sharonNYC
October 23, 2009
Friday Links
Will Subway Riders Start Calling It the Tube? [NY Times]
Freddie Mac’s Secrecy Pacts Face Court Test [NY Times]
Benefit for the Brooklyn Greenway [NY Post]
Nets Eye Return to Newark Prudential Center [NY Daily News]
The Fulton Mall Lacks Bling [Brooklyn Paper]
Hasids Fight for Naming Rights [NY Daily News]
Navy Yard, Brewery Get State Funds [Brooklyn Eagle]
DOH Confirms Mumps Outbreak In Brooklyn [NY1]
Photo by bluejake
October 22, 2009
Thursday Links
M.T.A. Weighs Lower Fares During Off-Peak Hours [NY Times]
After Ten Years, Bed Stuy Block Party Back On [NY Daily News]
Rock 'n' Roll Photo Show at Brooklyn Museum [NY Daily News]
Junior’s Responds To Mouse Photos [Brooklyn Eagle]
Vigil Held For Victim Of Brooklyn Bias Attack [NY1]
Suspect Sought in Tuesday's Rape in Greenpoint [WPIX]
In Brooklyn, an Artist Presents His Chickens [NBC NY]
Envisioning a New Sidewalk Shed [Gotham Gazette]
Photo by 2kjb
October 21, 2009
Wednesday Links
6 Posed as Abuse Victims to Get Rent Subsidies [NY Times]
College Point Mansion Is Now a Landmark [NY TImes]
Electric Bikes Gain Favor on City Streets [NY Times]
New Report Blasts MTA Mega-Projects [NY Post]
Bound Body Discovered at Fire in Brooklyn Home [NY Post]
AY Foes Hope to Run Out the Clock [NY Daily News]
Junior's Mousecake Photo Leaves Bad Taste [NY Daily News]
Police Nab G Train Masturbator [Brooklyn Paper]
Watchtower Acquires Additional Property Near Wallkill [Brooklyn Eagle]
Photo by jillysp from the Brownstoner Flickr Pool
October 20, 2009
Tuesday Links
Lanes for Buses Only, and New M.T.A. Chief Means It [NY Times]
City Awarded $105 Million in Exxon Mobil Lawsuit [NY TImes]
British Regulator Proposes Tighter Rules for Mortgages [NY Times]
Author ponders death — at Green-Wood Cemetery [NY Post]
Andrew Lloyd Webber Disses Coney Island [NY Daily News]
Bed Stuy Foot Soldiers Survive Recession [NY Daily News]
Man Shot at Home on Vanderbilt Avenue [NY1]
Photo by flatbushnelson
October 19, 2009
Monday Links
Police Offer Reward in Beating of Immigrant [NY Times]
Face-to-Face Socializing Starts With a Mobile Post [NY Times]
Arts, Briefly: BAM to Host First Opera Festival [NY Times]
Brooklyn Man Gunned Down After Quarrel [NY Daily News]
Dad Is 1 of 3 Slain in Bronx, Brooklyn [NY Daily News]
For Akiva Goldsman, a Beautiful Turnaround [LA Times]
GOP Challenger Debates Markowitz [Brooklyn Eagle]
Author Ponders Death—at Green-Wood Cemetery [Brooklyn Paper]
Photo by Barry Yanowitz, Brownstoner Flickr pool
October 16, 2009
Friday Links
As City Adds Housing for Poor, Market Subtracts It [NY Times]
Man Charged in Immigration Fraud Scheme [NY Times]
Acorn’s Woes Strain Its Ties to Democrats [NY Times]
41 Charged with Mortgage Fraud [NY Times]
Giuliani to Campaign with Bloomberg [Newsday]
Greenlight Bookstore Set to Open [NY Daily News]
Suit vs DUMBO Dock Street Project Claims Conspiracy [NY Daily News]
CB1 Approves Oddly Controversial Tapas Bar [NY Post]
Hope for Battered Brooklyn Housing Market [NY Post]
Unspeakable Conditions Prevail at Two Flatbush Buildings [NY Post]
Prospect Heights, the Next Cobble Hill [NY Post]
Leases Signed for Cruise, Beer [Brooklyn Eagle]
Has the Bust Gone Bust? [Brooklyn Paper]
Photo by adamlerner, Brownstoner Flickr pool
October 15, 2009
Thursday Links
A Tree Grows (and Dies) in Brooklyn [LA Times]
In an Old Film, the Brooklyn Waterfront as Badlands [NY Times]
Off-Duty Officer Is Indicted in Fatal D.W.I. [NY Times]
Tensions Flare in Flatbush Over Arrest of Vendors [NY Times]
Brooklyn Loan Shark Shot, Killed in Car [Daily News]
Bay Ridge Leads Brooklyn in Recycling [Brooklyn Eagle]
Brooklyn Rally Supports Healthcare ‘Public Option’ [Brooklyn Eagle]
The Bard of Boerum Hill: Love Him and Lethem! [Brooklyn Paper]
Dumbo Group Sues Two Trees Over Dock Street [Brooklyn Paper]
Photo by ItinerantFoodies, Brownstoner Flickr pool
October 14, 2009
Wednesday Links
Rising Inline Skater Is Fatally Shot in Brooklyn [NY Times]
In Bushwick, Starving Artists No More [NY Times]
Senior Program Launches: Same Bus, Different Mission [NY Times]
The Day: Public Art, To What End? [The Local, NYT]
Brooklyn's "Hipster Grifter" Replies from Prison [NBC NY]
Weak Dollar, Low NY Property Prices Woo Foreigners [Reuters]
One in Five Kids Homeless at PS 636 [NY Daily News]
Legal Services NYC to Consolidate Brooklyn? [Brooklyn Eagle]
Claire Danes Doesn’t Go to Brooklyn a Lot [NY Mag]
Photo by adamlerner, Brownstoner Flickr pool
October 13, 2009
Tuesday Links
Man Accused of D.W.I. in Fatal Crash in Brooklyn [NY Times]
Theater: His Streets, His Stories, His Life [NY Times]
Weekend Repairs Hobble New York City Subways [NY Times]
18 Sustain Minor Injuries in Brooklyn Bus Crash [NY Times]
Luring Artists to Lend Life to Empty Storefronts [NY Times]
Lethem Thumbs Nose at Manhattan Haves [Bloomberg]
Crack Thugs Sue City, Earn $500K [Daily News]
Brooklyn Southerners Bet Goober Peas Are Next Craze [Daily News]
Three Pulled From Sinking Car In Brooklyn [NY1]
Brooklyn Borough Hall to Host Brooklyn’s GLBT Center [Brooklyn Eagle]
Bloomberg Proposes Eliminating Public Advocate Position [AYR]
Photo by neenna, Brownstoner Flickr pool
October 9, 2009
Friday Links
Michigan Art Prize Goes to Brooklyn Painter [NY Times]
Seltzer Man Returns, and the Fizz Flows Again [NY Times]
Brooklyn Author Jonathan Lethem Tackles Manhattan [WSJ]
Another Brooklyn Indignity: Phantom at Coney [Village Voice]
Police Stop More Than 1 Million People in Street [AP]
FHA-Backed Mortgages In Trouble in Brooklyn [Brooklyn Eagle]
Arrest Made in Brooklyn DJ’s Seaport Murder [Brooklyn Eagle]
Broadside: Solving the Downtown Traffic Puzzle [Brooklyn Eagle]
Marty Is King of Queens, Secures Funds for Gay Center [Brooklyn Paper]
Prospect Expressway Wall Collapse by Church Ave [Ditmas Park Blog]
Russia's Richest Man Not Worried About Eminent Domain [DDDB]
Photo by wasder, Brownstoner Flickr pool
October 8, 2009
Thursday Links
Fierce Winds Topple Trees, Cut Power and Tie Up Traffic [NY Times]
HBO Renews ‘Bored to Death’ [NY Times]
Brooklyn Soldier, 23, Killed in Afghanistan [Newsday]
NY Enforcers: $10K-a-day Crime Ring Had Int'l Link [Newsday]
Two Guys from Brooklyn and Their 'Road to Qatar’ [Star-Telegram]
Brooklyn Real Estate Is Really, Really Not Good [NBC New York]
Top 10 Brooklyn Restaurants Worth the Wait [BlackBook]
Governor Visits Brooklyn Supreme Court [Brooklyn Eagle]
Gowanus Canal Pumping Mechanism To Get Upgrade [Brooklyn Eagle]
Photo by wasder, Brownstoner Flickr pool
October 7, 2009
Wednesday Links
Still Neighborly in Brooklyn [NY Times]
After 98 Years Underwater, a Coney Island Bell Is Back [NY Times]
Opinion: No Injustice in Shem Walker Delays [NY Times]
Patterson to Brave Brooklyn [NY Daily News]
Brooklyn Utopias? Artists Explore a ‘Perfect’ Borough [Brooklyn Eagle]
New Worries on Old Fulton Street [Brooklyn Eagle]
Photo by Daniel Huggard, Brownstoner Flickr pool
October 6, 2009
Tuesday Links
Regarding Jonah, Dinkins, Bloomberg and a Yankees Victory [NY Times]
At Tech, Looking for the Right School [NY Times]
The Day: Bikes, Bridges, Bottoms, Benefits, B-ball [NY Times]
Brooklyn Middle School Students Squeezed Out [NY Daily News]
3 Stabbed, 1 Fatally, Near Brooklyn Internet Cafe [Newsday]
Reggae Guy Struck Me, Says Samurai Sword Attacker [NY Post]
Man Sentenced for Trying to Steal Bride’s Hand, Literally [Brooklyn Eagle]
Photo by Bob Marvin, Brownstoner Flickr pool
October 5, 2009
Monday Links
Reggae Artist Is Attacked With Sword [NY Times]
Officer Disciplined in D.W.I. Case Against Colleague [NY Times]
In Brooklyn, a Quest to Catch the Biggest Fish [NY Times]
Brooklyn Tourists Jailed in Antigua Plead Guilty [NY Daily News]
Alleged Ponzi Schemer Philip Barry Back in Brooklyn [NY Daily News]
Bed-Stuy Native Chris Rock's 'Good Hair' to Air [NY Daily News]
Brooklyn Friends School on State Street? [Brooklyn Eagle]
Bedford Chainsaw Massacre: Cops Cut Bikes in Billyburg [Brooklyn Paper]
Photo by Stacy Gueraseva, Brownstoner Flickr pool
October 2, 2009
Friday Links
Motorcycles Driving Up the Walls [NY Times]
Baker Stands Up to Gambino Goons [NY Daily News]
Amid Trial, Carnival Cruise Line Dumps Antigua [NY Daily News]
Brooklyn Beep Endorses Bloomberg [Village Voice]
Booze Figure in DWI Cop Case Unlikely, Commish Fears [NBC New York]
Four Men Wanted in Brooklyn Shooting [NY1]
Blondie to Play at Brooklyn Museum [NY Press]
Manhattan Bridge 100th Anniversary Special [Time Out]
Photo by Peter Kruger, Brownstoner Flickr pool
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