Top Ten Brooklyn Stories of Last Decade?
Rich Calder of The Post takes a stab at defining the ten biggest Brooklyn stories of the last decade. It seems like a decent list to us, though we would have put the rezonings of Downtown Brooklyn and Williamsburg higher on the list. What about you? What’s missing or shouldn’t have made the cut? 1….
Rich Calder of The Post takes a stab at defining the ten biggest Brooklyn stories of the last decade. It seems like a decent list to us, though we would have put the rezonings of Downtown Brooklyn and Williamsburg higher on the list. What about you? What’s missing or shouldn’t have made the cut?
1. Atlantic Yards
2. The Fight (Sitt vs. Bloomberg) for Coney Island’s Future
3. Cyclones Arrive at Keyspan Park
4. Condos Added to Brooklyn Bridge Park Plan
5. Astroland Closes
6. Rezoning of Downtown Brooklyn and Williamsburg
7. Marty Markowitz Becomes Borough President
8. Clarence Norman Busted for Selling Judgeships
9. Ikea Comes to Red Hook
10. Opening of Brooklyn Cruise Terminal
Calder’s Honorable Mentions on the jump…
Brooklyn’s Top 10 Stories of the Decade [NY Post]
Honorable mention:
– Feds call for Superfund designation of Gowanus Canal;
– Jehovah Witnesses begin selling properties in Heights and DUMBO;
– Walentas continues transformation of DUMBO;
– Hasids and Hipsters fight over bike lanes in W’burg.
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“when i lived in harlem i did not see any gentrification at ALL. it was a total disgusting cesspool. and i liked it that way 🙂 but it wasnt healthy for me or my dog, so i had to move out.”
Rob, didn’t you live on Bwy and LaSalle or somesuch? I was up there yesterday and I thought about you. Imagine that!
Benson, I was referring to this:
“For example, even though the prime portions of Park Slope were genetrified decades ago, there was little new construction in the area. Only in the past decade have we seen the widespread construction of new middle-class housing.”
but OK.
One of the things that cracks me up in these debates about who gets credit for the reduction in crime is everyone conveniently forgets the communities in which most of the crime occurs and in which most of the reduction in crime has occurred.
Could it be that the communities themselves have changed?
No, not all those poor folks. They’re just a monolithic mass of crime-breeding drug-infested pj dwellers. They couldn’t possibly get any of the credit.
No, got to be someone else. Gotta be the mayor, or the police commissioner, or the correctional head. Couldn’t be the people. Nope.
Denton;
If you go back to my original post (before the “noise”),I stated that the primary influx has been upper-middle-class.
A story missed: 4th Ave re-zoning. All that new housing on 4th has sure sparked a lot of controversy.
cillmylandlord, I’m late to this story and in fact am tired of it–I’ve argued with benson and his buddies many times. So the ghouliani-haters are here, we just haven’t all checked in today, some of us been working!
benson, before you run away, I’m curious as to what you mean by all this ‘middle class housing’ that got built. Who in the middle class can afford these new condos in the six figures?
To me middle class housing meant Mitchell Lama complexes like coop city for example, the Trump #1 developments, Stuytown etc.
“I think one of the highlights of the last 10 years is the ability for me, as a black woman, to get a yellow cab in Manhattan to take me to Crown Heights without an argument or having to handcuff myself to the back seat.”
lol, MM, maybe it’s cuz all the cabdrivers are Black too, albeit generally not American.
wow- paranoia strikes deep. Into your life it will creep. It starts when you’re always afraid- you can look up the rest. It’s the state of denial.
Posted by: bxgrl at January 6, 2010 1:48 PM
LOL.