Friday Links
Without Loan Giants, 30-Year Mortgage May Fade Away [NY Times] City Invites Groups to Help Immigrants Start Businesses [City Room] Lawmaker From Queens Withdraws Bike-License Bill [City Room] Green-Wood Cemetery Wants Neglected Queens Statue [Daily News] Downtown Population Reaching Sky-High Levels [Post] 2 Brooklyn Grocers Face Class-Action Suits [Crain’s] Park Slope Eatery Files for Bankruptcy…
Without Loan Giants, 30-Year Mortgage May Fade Away [NY Times]
City Invites Groups to Help Immigrants Start Businesses [City Room]
Lawmaker From Queens Withdraws Bike-License Bill [City Room]
Green-Wood Cemetery Wants Neglected Queens Statue [Daily News]
Downtown Population Reaching Sky-High Levels [Post]
2 Brooklyn Grocers Face Class-Action Suits [Crain’s]
Park Slope Eatery Files for Bankruptcy [Crain’s]
Squatting 101 Class Already Booked Up [Gothamist]
Goose Lovers to Rally in Prospect Park [BK Paper]
Brooklyn, Home of the Urban Legend [McBrooklyn]
Video: Wollman Rink Pulled Apart [PLOG]
5th Ave Blockbuster Closing on March 30th [HPS]
MTA To Ensure We Go Nowhere In March [SB]
The City’s Misunderstood Cyclists [WSJ]
Brooklyn Fare Doubles Space [Eagle]
not having a skating rink in Prospect Park this winter has been terrible for our family. piss-poor planning there.
The “Civic Virtue” statue is magnificent.
“Life without Fannie and Freddie is the rare goal shared by the Obama administration and House Republicans, although it will not happen soon.” – Loan Giants article
WTF do they mean it won’t happen soon? What do we need them for? Have you seen the stock market lately?
***Bid half off peak comps***
“It’s [Park Slope Eatery’s bankruptcy] certainly representative of an unfortunate trend.†– Bob Kalb, owner of Park Slope Copy Center and Treasurer of the Park Slope Chamber of Commerce
Trend, huh. Chamber of Commerce, huh. He would know. Economy’s going further and futher to shit while the stock “market” chugs along on life support and the “hospital” bill (systemic debt, defaults and hidden losses) compounds daily. Why aren’t Park Slope brownstone/condo/coop “gains” going into local businesses? The mother of all crashes is upon us. When I can’t say but it aint getting better before it gets worse.
***Bid half off peak comps***
If Prospect Park were overrun with a less cuddly invasive species—say the lake was chock-a-block with snakehead fish— would these folks who support geese support them? DOubtful.
Invasive species are a death knell to any environment and its local flora and fauna, and geese are not exception. As for getting rid of these animals, “let it come down.”
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re park slope eatery, good riddance to that hookah bar. Just a back door way to get kids hooked on cigs.
that’s beyond stupid to say. okay, why dont we ban everything else under the sun cuz it’s just a way to get kids hooked on x and y
*rob*
“re park slope eatery, good riddance to that hookah bar. Just a back door way to get kids hooked on cigs.”
Denton, maybe I’m missing something, but why would a hookah bar want to get kids hooked on cigs? What’s in it for the hookah bar unless they sell cartons of cigarettes or are owned by a tobacco company. Seems counter-intuitive. I would assume many people who use hookahs use that as a substitute for cigarettes.
That is an excellent photograph.
Oh, and the geese have already adjusted to us; that’s the problem.
There was a 4-alarm fire in Park Slope this morning at 5th ave and Garfield. One person reportedly seriously injured.