Daily Links: City Council Revives, Revamps Controversial Landmarks Bill
City Council is considering changes in the way it approves landmarks, Brooklyn Heights’ Hotel Bossert may open in October, and more.
Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Photo by Mary Hautman
In the News
With $3.35 Million Deal, Five Holdouts Will Leave a Slope Seniors’ Home [NYT]
Council Considers Big Changes in How New York Approves Landmarks [NYT]
The Hotel Bossert Is Aiming for an October Reopening [Eagle]
Deck Collapses at Bushwick’s Cook Mansion, Injuring 13 [Gothamist]
Spitzer Snags $330 Million Loan for Waterfront ‘Burg Development [CO]
Insider’s Guide to Evicting Rent-Stabilized Tenants in Brooklyn [TRD]
Pratt Institute Plans to Build 10-Story Dorm in Clinton Hill [DNA]
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Comment of the Day
Our first apartment was a garden floor-through in the South Slope. We loved it, but my late mother [who liked everything to be “contemporary”] always referred to it as “that filthy basement slum”. She didn’t think much more of the house we bought a few years later. Brownstones weren’t universally admired back then.
— Bob Marvin in What Is a Floor-Through Apartment, Anyway?
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