Tuesday Links
Keeping the Artists in Williamsburg and Attracting the Bankers [NY Times] Queen Mary 2 Is Back at Red Hook Dock [NY Times] Countrywide Settles Mortgage Fee Complaint [NY Times] Greene Grape Founder Launches Tech Start-Up [NY Times] Brooklyn College: Boxing Mecca [WSJ] Sukkot Design Competition [WSJ] Bay Ridge Dust Bowl Gets Synthetic Turf [NY Post]…
Keeping the Artists in Williamsburg and Attracting the Bankers [NY Times]
Queen Mary 2 Is Back at Red Hook Dock [NY Times]
Countrywide Settles Mortgage Fee Complaint [NY Times]
Greene Grape Founder Launches Tech Start-Up [NY Times]
Brooklyn College: Boxing Mecca [WSJ]
Sukkot Design Competition [WSJ]
Bay Ridge Dust Bowl Gets Synthetic Turf [NY Post]
Mill Basin Deli Owner Challenges Fast Food [NY Daily News]
Accident on Dean Street Caused by Closure? [AY Report]
Rooftop Break-Ins Up in Bed-Stuy? [Gothamist]
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Not anti-art. Just haven’t particularly liked the makers of said art.
Streb (place mentioned in the article) is really a serious place for trapeze and other gymnastics although they are involved in artistic productions. know families sending kids there for classes and love it, but also know adults attending classes there. that type of place obviously needs a significant amount of space in order to offer their services/classes.
We don’t use it, but do use a similar sized place for gymnastics and dance classes – ms.j’s gymnastics on kent between s.1st and s.2nd. http://www.msjsgym.com/
ms. j’s also does pick up for kids at PS84 for afterschool activities (like a Y would or other organizations), and the kids who participate get classes as well as a place to play, do art projects or do their homework if they’re older.
WB is lucky to have these larger facilities to offer these unique services – sort of like PowerPlay in Gowanus/PS on third avenue. they all do offer a real value to the people living in the area.
I do think it’s silly to write off all artists as “grifters.” strange comment. obviously painters/photographers are real as well as artisans of which there are many who do major shows and/or sell commercially.
on N.11th (i believe it’s that street) there’s a major iron work/glass studio which has done significant residential, commercial and gov’t jobs including all the lampposts that surround city hall.
Where do you guys think even the vase or glassware you buy at high end stores come from? know of a studio in east williamsburg that designs and produces for stores internationally. they also show at a NYC gallery. are you all anti-art? i don’t believe that.
I’m with you, NYCdeli, and I majored in art.
Only skimmed the article, but it sounded like that woman totally gamed the system, what with the buying of the Soho loft for $130K (because, being an artist, she needed it cheap!) and the ability to sell it two years later at market value… is there a difference in this case between “artist” and “grifter?”
I can totally see why she and the banker guy get along.
….light bulb makers.
I’m generalizing here, but I don’t particularly like artists or bankers. I can see how both could be beneficial to a neighborhood, but I wouldn’t want to have to live around the majority of the ones I’ve met. How about teachers and hairstylists? Or bakers and…
Somebody with more time than I have needs to start a movement to save the incandescent light bulb.
Fluorescent bulbs are horrible, plus they cause pollution and skin cancer.
After “reform”/scrutiny, the bankers will become artists. Convenient. Especially GS bankers.
***Bid half off peak comps***
no clue, but i tried those new energy efficient bulbs cuz the bulbs in my bedroom are always shorting out and ugh the lighting was horrific. it was like morgue lighting. no thank you.
*rob*
NYT special report on Edison bulbs!!!!!!
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/08/nyregion/08bulb.html?hpw
They forgot to mention Brooklyn, where it’s practically illegal to open a new restaurant without Edison bulbs.
Also, what’s going to happen when incandescents are phased out? Will we have to buy our Edison bulbs on the black market?