Afternoon Links: Coney Lots to Be Seized, Greenpoint Doughnuts Apparently Eternal

In the News
City Moving Ahead With Plans to Seize Coney Island Property [NYP]
In Greenpoint, a Doughnut Shop Where Time Stands Still [NYT]
A Fashion Entrepreneur at Home in Williamsburg [NYT]
Less Service on the L Train? Wring More Efficiency Out of the Streets [Streetsblog]
George Washington Once Slept on Sweet’N Low Factory’s Site [Brownstone Detectives]
Carroll Gardens Building Inspector Suspended Following Video Fit [Gothamist]
A Marie Antoinette-Inspired Bar Opens Under Atlantic Avenue [McBrooklyn]

Today we published a history of Sweet’N Low in Brooklyn, but one commenter had another piece of the story to add. Read on…

Comment of the Day

What you didn’t say was that they tried to sell the idea of individual sugar packets to various companies who all turned them down, then stole the idea for themselves. This fundamentally changed the way sugar is offered in America: individual packets, rather than the old sugar dispenser or, worse, the open sugar bowl, which couldn’t prevent people from taking as much as they wanted, driving down profits.

— Andrew Porter in First Fort Greene, Then the World: Sweet’N Low’s Bittersweet Brooklyn History

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