Thursday Links
Cuomo’s Transition is Already Well Underway [NY Times] City Gives Out Fewer A’s in High School Reviews [NY Times] From Brooklyn to Beijing, to Teach Children English [NY Times] Roberta Gratz Removed from Landmarks Panel [NY Times] Belt Parkway Tricycle Holds Up Traffic [NY Post] Rats Not Welcome at One Brooklyn Bridge Park [NY Post]…

Cuomo’s Transition is Already Well Underway [NY Times]
City Gives Out Fewer A’s in High School Reviews [NY Times]
From Brooklyn to Beijing, to Teach Children English [NY Times]
Roberta Gratz Removed from Landmarks Panel [NY Times]
Belt Parkway Tricycle Holds Up Traffic [NY Post]
Rats Not Welcome at One Brooklyn Bridge Park [NY Post]
Foreclosure Point Man Miller Reelected [WSJ]
City Ditches Planters on Oriental Ave. [NY Daily News]
Expansion Plan at Arts and Letters Upsets Parents [NY Daily News]
Marty Looks Forward to a Bourgie Boardwalk [Observer]
Crown Height’s Tivoli Towers to Remain Affordable for Next 30 Years [BK Eagle]
GOP Sweep in Bay Ridge: What Was Behind It? [BK Eagle]
Vendors: Not the Real Coney Story [BK Eagle]
In the photograph accompanying the article in the Observer–is Marty trying to hide his boner?
Marty wants Bourgie Boardwalk? Has he ever gone to Coney Island? Brownstone owning families are not the demographic the businesses cater to. He is out to lunch per usual.
Are you kidding? This joker in the Brooklyn Eagle ended his commentary on the Coney Island plans with the Ye Olde argument… Economic Development means more people and that’s bad!
“All those new people surrounding Surf Avenue will make it most challenging for people living in Sea Gate to get home.”
Jeezus H. Christmas.
(By the way, totally unrelated, have you been to Sea Gate?! It’s this weird shtetl of some sort surrounded by a high fence to keep the marauders away… or something.)