Tuesday Links
Torrents and Trickles in Fund-Raising Updates [NY Times] M.T.A. Will End Mystery of Where on the Platform the G Train Stops [NY Times] NYCHA Has Blown Off 369,000 Repair Requests [NY Daily News] Four Brooklyn Library Branches Closed During the Heat Wave [NY Daily News] Two Women Shot in Front of Crown Heights School [NY…

Torrents and Trickles in Fund-Raising Updates [NY Times]
M.T.A. Will End Mystery of Where on the Platform the G Train Stops [NY Times]
NYCHA Has Blown Off 369,000 Repair Requests [NY Daily News]
Four Brooklyn Library Branches Closed During the Heat Wave [NY Daily News]
Two Women Shot in Front of Crown Heights School [NY Daily News]
BBG Visitor Center Gets Waiver to Serve Alcohol [NY Daily News]
Dinosaur Bar-B-Que Lands in Brooklyn [WSJ]
Final Seaside Concert Season Upon Him, Markowitz Pushes For An Amphitheater [NY1]
Corrupt Developer Heads to Brooklyn Federal Court [Observer]
‘Kemistry’ Nightclub Trying Again for Liquor License [AYR]
36 Years Later, Greenmarket Returns to Flatbush Ave. [PS Patch]
Wow, it’s dead around here.
where are all the people shouting out against public and subsidized housing and poor people sucking off the gov’t, Etc. etc.? It’s only Tuesday. They shouldn’t be at their 2nd homes yet.
You should have given the NYCHA article its own thread. It has all the requirements for lots of comments.
Public housing (some call it entitlement), unions, Bloomberg, 29Yr old living w mom. And if you dig deep enough I’m sure u can find bike lanes in there somewhere.
+1
And Dave, you forgot, ‘if the unions aren’t involved, repairs would get done a lot quicker’.
and also that, ‘It’s Obama’s fault that people think they’re entitled to live in public housing and Obama’s fault they expect repairs.’
Smoke detectors are required by law to be provided by landlord.
agree about the linoleum. Slap some glue or duct tape on it.
Wow, I have to agree! Did the paper intentionally choose the least sympathetic tenant with the most ridiculous “delayed repair”?? I’m sure there are plenty of elderly tenants with real repair requests that have gone unaddressed.
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