Thursday Links
A NY Staple for Decades, Korean Grocers Are Dwindling [NY Times] Bushwick Open Studios Fest Plagued by L Disruptions [City Room] Ratner Will Look to Borrow $100 Million For First AY Tower [Bloomberg] ESDC Goes to Court to Access Two Props for AY Work [AY Report] Burmese Buddhist Monks Make Their Home in Bed Stuy…
A NY Staple for Decades, Korean Grocers Are Dwindling [NY Times]
Bushwick Open Studios Fest Plagued by L Disruptions [City Room]
Ratner Will Look to Borrow $100 Million For First AY Tower [Bloomberg]
ESDC Goes to Court to Access Two Props for AY Work [AY Report]
Burmese Buddhist Monks Make Their Home in Bed Stuy [NY Daily News]
Newtown Creek Sewage Plant Finally Meets Fed Standards [BK Paper]
Congresswoman Seeks an End to Helicopter Tourism [WSJ]
Central Library to Build Information Commons [Eagle]
Three Sites in Brownsville Up for Auction [Crain’s]
The Verizon Eyesores [Ditmas Park Blog]
How did those monks find a place with original, unpainted wood work? Lucky them!
Interesting – I live in Fiske Terrace, where these poles are being installed (without the Landmarks permit), and no one asked me if they could use my yard to get to the existing poles in the back. In fact Verizon goes back there all the time to fix their wonderful phone service that keeps going down. I really wonder about their statement.
I was told by Verizon they DO put poles in back if homeowners on a block approve and allow access. If homeowners refused access in the past, Verizon gives up and doesn’t try again. I can’t wait for FIOS to arrive. It’s sad if these poles are ugly, but they’re necessary in order for Brooklyn to join the modern world. If it weren’t for NIMBYs (the literal ones!) we’d have these poles in backyards.
holy crap it never occurred to me that telephone poles no longer exist!
8rob*
They’ve put several up in Cobble Hill and they dont look so great. They are fiberglass (or some kind of man-made woven material) and have a huge equipment box at the top. Really, this is something appropriate for in back, not on a sidewalk – it almost the equivalent of real telephone poles, which we got rid of decades ago. I’m thrilled to be able to get Fios, but they are doing it on the cheap at the expense of the landscape.
Are those little black base and the orange cone bolted to them that I’ve started seeing all over 5th Avenue going to be FIOS poles?
The helicopter tours must stop. the noise generated from these helicopters is so annoying a ruining the quality of life for all the residents of the areas, plus it is soo annoying when you are in any of the Parks near the flying zones.
Valentino park this past weekend was a sheer hell with choppers flying over every 4 minutes. We had to l=eave because the noise was so annoying.
I say get rid of these tourism choppers once and for all, they are just one big nuisance to the communities already !!!!!
I guess Brownstoner considers the NYT’s Prospect Park “trash” patrol story a non-starter. That is, unless I missed something.
Whatever, rob.