That's great - but really, it's only a rehab for three blocks - between Avenues M through O. Let's not get the champagne and streamers out for Simcha just yet.

Posted by: Boxermonkey at October 28, 2009 10:38 AM in response to Makeover of Ocean Parkway Mall

And they killed the Purchase Building.

Posted by: Boxermonkey at October 24, 2008 5:36 PM in response to Number 6: Marianna Koval and Regina Myer

There are actually two pharmacies within two blocks there, Oak Park which is awful and Ballard which doesn't have the best hours but is a good place. There isn't enough sqaure footage for a CVS to begin with, and more chain-store banks and drug stores (and cell phone shops) should, in my opinion, not be encouraged even in jest.

Posted by: Boxermonkey at October 20, 2008 3:32 PM in response to Streetlevel: Dueling Cellphone Stores on Prospect Park West

G-man,

you are completely correct and of course Brennan is pulling a political stunt, but c'mon - he's a state assemblyman - he really doesn't have a lot of pull in the broader sense of things.

I DO appreciate the reduction in cars in the park. I just happen to think that if the entire park was completely closed to cars 24/7, it would have a potential adverse impact on the residential streets around the park and that should be examined rationally. If that makes me anti-bicycle or NIMBY, so be it.

Posted by: Boxermonkey at October 3, 2008 2:20 PM in response to Car-Free Prospect Park? Blech!

If it's going to a permanent change in the traffic pattern, DOT is required to do an environmental study.

The question isn't only bikers vs. drivers, it's autos vs. residential streets in the area that might get flooded with traffic if the park is entirely car-free all the time.

Posted by: Boxermonkey at October 3, 2008 11:01 AM in response to Car-Free Prospect Park? Blech!

That's the old Aaron's (or was it Aron's) menswear store, isn't it?

Posted by: Boxermonkey at August 26, 2008 2:55 PM in response to Streetlevel: South Slope Gets a New Restaurant

It was part of the South Park Slope rezoning for what that's worth. Old-time residents of WT generally regard 8th Avenue as the cut-off between them and the Slope.

Posted by: Boxermonkey at August 15, 2008 5:15 PM in response to Delays at 317 16th Street

The atrocities that have been visited on 16th Street just go on and on.

Posted by: Boxermonkey at August 15, 2008 1:58 PM in response to Delays at 317 16th Street

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/19/nyregion/19land.html

The Parks Department doesn't actually have plans for what is going to be placed there. There will be a building of some kind there though, it actually isn't safe to walk there without a solid roof cover (debris from the bridge falls off).

Posted by: Boxermonkey at July 24, 2008 2:30 PM in response to Checking In On The Purchase Building Demolition

"Check back in 6yrs when the complaint will be that people are forced to move from CG because housing costs too much."

Please, if you think a six-story building in CG will help kepe housing costs in the neighborhood down, I've got a park under the Brooklyn Bridge to sell you.

Posted by: Boxermonkey at July 24, 2008 10:51 AM in response to CG Zoning Tweak Passes; Oliver House Height Doomed?