Afternoon Links: Ex-Assemblyman and Brooklyn Power Broker Vito Lopez Dead at 74
In the News Growing New York Comedy Festival Takes Over Brooklyn [Variety] Low-Wage Workers March on Brooklyn McDonald’s [Gothamist] Vito J. Lopez, Ex-New York Assemblyman Tainted by Scandal, Dies at 74 [NY Times] At Brooklyn Navy Yard, a Redevelopment That Offers Hope for Manufacturing [TRD] When Did Williamsburg Stop Being “Weird”? [Brokelyn] Bed Stuy Apartments to…
In the News
Growing New York Comedy Festival Takes Over Brooklyn [Variety]
Low-Wage Workers March on Brooklyn McDonald’s [Gothamist]
Vito J. Lopez, Ex-New York Assemblyman Tainted by Scandal, Dies at 74 [NY Times]
At Brooklyn Navy Yard, a Redevelopment That Offers Hope for Manufacturing [TRD]
When Did Williamsburg Stop Being “Weird”? [Brokelyn]
Bed Stuy Apartments to House Mental-Health Patients [BK Paper]
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My biggest issue with “Do The Right Thing” was that no one ever said “yo – Sal is a racist and Mookie is the worst delivery-guy in the city. Why don’t we try one of the other 20 pizza joints in the 10 square blocks around here?”
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