Monday Links: Brooklyn Halfway Houses Exploit Residents
Halfway House in East New York Forces Residents to Become Addicts [NY Times] Price Tag on Williamsburg Park Reaches $225 Million, and That’s Only the Beginning [NY Times] Weeksville Hamlet of Free African-Americans Was Ahead of Its Time [NY Times] Jet Narrowly Misses Collision With Unmanned Drone Over Prospect Park [NY Daily News] DOT to…
Halfway House in East New York Forces Residents to Become Addicts [NY Times]
Price Tag on Williamsburg Park Reaches $225 Million, and That’s Only the Beginning [NY Times]
Weeksville Hamlet of Free African-Americans Was Ahead of Its Time [NY Times]
Jet Narrowly Misses Collision With Unmanned Drone Over Prospect Park [NY Daily News]
DOT to Allow Parking at Spots Near Prospect Park After Ticketing Trap Exposed [NY Daily News]
Patrons, Elected Officials Call for Six-Day Library Service at Coney Island, Bushwick Branches [Eagle]
Brooklyn Restaurant, Bar Owners Form Advocacy Group [BK Paper]
Cuomo, From the Left, Faults Mayor on 421-a [Capital NY]
MilkMade Bringing Funky Ice Creams to Carroll Gardens [Gothamist]
In Bedford Stuyvesant, a Café Uses Gentrification to Give Back [WNYC]
Co-op Group Considers Crowdfunding Affordable Community Space in Greenpoint, Bushwick [NYY]
Three-Story Multi-Family Project Planned for 2126 Gerritsen Avenue in Sheepshead Bay [NYY]
Nonprofit Phipps Houses to Buy 300,000-Square-Foot East New York Site for $38 Million [TRD]
City Spends $3.2 Million to Replace 3,600 Sandy-Damaged Trees in Brooklyn [DNA]
Greek Revival House on State Street in Boerum Hill.
Brownstoner on Instagram
Photo by Cate Corcoran
Another reason why jet planes shouldn’t fly so low, sometimes as low as 1,700 feet, creating enormous noise and air pollution or residents below. We have every right to fly drones in Prospect Park, if not where else could we do that? Maybe it’s a good thing there’ll be more drones in the park so these damn jet planes will fly much higher-