Wednesday Links
Obama-0-lantern. Photo by brianwferry from the Brownstoner Flickr pool. Brooklyn Librarian Is Fined for Promoting Daughter’s Book [NY Times] Tax Snag Arises in Brooklyn Nets Development [Reuters] Farrell’s Barkeep Commits Suicide After Long Illness [NY Daily News] Waterfalls Generated $69 Million [NY Daily News] Green Church Meets D-Day [Brooklyn Eagle] Trash War on Dean Street…
Obama-0-lantern. Photo by brianwferry from the Brownstoner Flickr pool.
Brooklyn Librarian Is Fined for Promoting Daughter’s Book [NY Times]
Tax Snag Arises in Brooklyn Nets Development [Reuters]
Farrell’s Barkeep Commits Suicide After Long Illness [NY Daily News]
Waterfalls Generated $69 Million [NY Daily News]
Green Church Meets D-Day [Brooklyn Eagle]
Trash War on Dean Street [Brooklyn Paper]
Not a bad Obama image. Not bad at all.
In reference to the ‘Green’ Church.
As many of you know, I was very passionate and outspoken about preserving this church.
I got a call yesterday morning at 8:00am from a resident on the block telling me that it looked like the major demolition was going to take place. (They had started to dismantle the clock tower a couple of weeks ago). By the time I got there at 8:30, demolition was well under way. It was heartbreaking to see. All I could think was, 109 years ago, the community was probably standing around in awe watching it being built and here we are watching it being destroyed.
I couldn’t look at the destruction for more than 5 minutes. I closed my eyes and with tears streaming down my cheeks I listened to the carnage.
I left at 9:00am, with a small portion of wall still standing. I wanted to leave before it was fully razed.
It’s hard for me to fathom that for over a century, this community revered this church for its architectural splendor and in less than an hour it became rubble.
It was a poignant moment in this areas history and Bay Ridge will fare worse for it.
“Re: the Waterfalls generated $69MM and “79,300 came to New York or extended their trip just to see the display”.
These sorts of economic impact measurements are notoriously easy to manipulate, which appears to have happened here.
Stil, someone in my office took an out-of-town friend on an around-the-island boat ride with the “Waterfalls” as the highlight. When she told me, I didn’t know what to say. Definitely the goofiest “art” project to come along in a while, I think.
Still waiting for the “you have no appreciation for/don’t understand art” comment…
even cheesier than the ubiquitous barfy tshirts.
-r
even cheesier than the ubiquitous barfy tshirts.
-r
Very precise but probably very inaccurate as well!!!
Re: the Waterfalls generated $69MM and “79,300 came to New York or extended their trip just to see the display”.
Am I the only one who finds this very hard to believe? If it’s true, I would guess 79,298 of those people left bitterly disappointed.