Wednesday Links
EDC Owes Millions to City, an Audit Finds [NY Times] Ex-Brooklyn College Student Helped Al Qaeda [NY Times] Lawyer Group Questions Community Benefit Agreements [NY Times] Study Questions Number of Cyclists in New York [NY Daily News] Marty’s Chief on List of Big Players [NY Post] Payday for West Indian Parade Victims [NY Daily News]…
EDC Owes Millions to City, an Audit Finds [NY Times]
Ex-Brooklyn College Student Helped Al Qaeda [NY Times]
Lawyer Group Questions Community Benefit Agreements [NY Times]
Study Questions Number of Cyclists in New York [NY Daily News]
Marty’s Chief on List of Big Players [NY Post]
Payday for West Indian Parade Victims [NY Daily News]
Artists Find Inspiration in Brooklyn’s Terrain [NY Daily News]
Brookyn Bridge Closures To Start in June [Brooklyn Paper]
A Wal-Mart Battle Grows In Brooklyn [NY1]
Idling Dump Trucks Block Pacific Street [AYR]
Cobble Hill Tenants Want Even Lower Prices [Curbed]
Photo by Tal Gozhansky
Dave, I was talking from the pov of the whiners saying vendors are WM’s slaves and are poor. Which may be true for some, but nobody forces them to do biz, and you don’t make a living selling at a loss.
“There’s a lot of barren land out here.”
There was even more long ago. You’re looking at the fertile landscape of my boyhood.
So whats the big deal about Wal-mart ?? It is just a store, I say build it, let people work there and yes, I would like to shop there and park my car in the huge parking lot they will have. The land is wasted there anyway, might as well put it to good use.
Those cobble hill apartments are really small, not worth the money. While they are my favorite looking apartments on the outside, they are not worth the money at all. BQE, don’t think so. Walk up 6 floors, no, don’t think so.
As a native of the area, ENY can use a Wal-Mart. It can also get along just fine without one. Either way, it looks like it won’t happen without a pitched battl.
I’ve shopped at Wal-Mart in Pennsylvania. All of this drama over Wal-Mart is a bit much. Really, it’s just a big store. Same with the AY Target. But hey, if you don’t like it, don’t shop there.
ive been the target in the AT and i thought it was fine too. people can be such snobs sometimes.
*rob*
Target stores in the suburbs RULE!
I was at the Gateway Center a week ago. Drove around after and thought to myself. There’s a lot of barren land out here.
I’ve only been in the AT Target once, but it seemed fine. Didn’t see what all the fuss is about.
BSD, you just said yourself, “it’s immensely profitable” for vendors who sell to WalMart.
Dave, I’d think its worse than just prices going up. For people who whine that the vendors are squeezed (and we are, but we do biz with them b/c it’s immensely profitable), they’ll just get squeezed more.