Monday Links
Body Parts Found in Brooklyn [NY Times] Brooklynite to Oversee Children’s Museum [NY Daily News] $650K for Brooklyn Heights Streetlamps [NY Daily News] Barclays Still Backs Nets’ Move to Brooklyn [NJ Star-Ledger] Schermerhorn Mixes Homeless with Ballerinas [Bloomberg] Santa Rosalia Italian Festival in Full Swing [Brooklyn Eagle] Photo by Amy Mcnamara, Brownstoner Flickr pool
Body Parts Found in Brooklyn [NY Times]
Brooklynite to Oversee Children’s Museum [NY Daily News]
$650K for Brooklyn Heights Streetlamps [NY Daily News]
Barclays Still Backs Nets’ Move to Brooklyn [NJ Star-Ledger]
Schermerhorn Mixes Homeless with Ballerinas [Bloomberg]
Santa Rosalia Italian Festival in Full Swing [Brooklyn Eagle]
Photo by Amy Mcnamara, Brownstoner Flickr pool
> One can only imagine where the remaining $700 BILLION is going.
Jewel-encrusted fire hydrants in Beverly Hills?
Snark;
Yes,the FEDERAL government allocating $650K for streetlights in BH is indicative of a poorly-run, politically-driven program. One can only imagine where the remaining $700 BILLION is going.
Snark;
Yes,the FEDERAL government allocating $650K for streetlights in BH is indicative of a poorly-run, politically-driven program. One can only imagine where the remaining $700 BILLION is going.
In response to Barclays’ Bob Diamond in the Star Ledger…
Barclays’ Bob Diamond: We Have to Brand Brooklyn to Save It
http://dddb.net/php/latestnews_Linked.php?id=2267
$650k has your knickers in a knot?
“The upscale neighborhood is getting 65 new streetlamps this fall at $10,000 a pop – paid for with federal stimulus money.”
Is there any better demonstration of what a sham the stimulus bill is? In the Great Depression, FDR marshalled the nation’s resources to build great projects like the Hoover Dam, the Triborough Bridge and the TVA dams. These projects were highly visible, provided meaningful jobs for several years and were significant improvements to the nation’s infrastructure.
Here we are, using federal funds to install “cute” streetlamps to further disneyfy Brooklyn Heights. What a joke.
As someone else pointed out when this story first aired over a week ago, Stuyvesant Heights already has these nice reproduction streetlights . Na, na, na.na.na na.
650K to replace perfectly functioning streetlights! WTF!!!
Who thought of this? Someone’s lightbulb is loose.
650k. 650m would be a big story indeed