Wednesday Links
The Mystery of the Ghost Stroller Deepens [NY Times] The Geese Are Back in Prospect Park [NY Times] A Regular Spelling Bee in Williamsburg [NY Times] Geithner Affirms U.S. Role as Mortgage Backer [NY Times] Air Quality Bad Everywhere in the City [NY Post] Windsor Terrace Cafe Cancels Kid Sing-Alongs [NY Daily News] Brooklyn Teen…
The Mystery of the Ghost Stroller Deepens [NY Times]
The Geese Are Back in Prospect Park [NY Times]
A Regular Spelling Bee in Williamsburg [NY Times]
Geithner Affirms U.S. Role as Mortgage Backer [NY Times]
Air Quality Bad Everywhere in the City [NY Post]
Windsor Terrace Cafe Cancels Kid Sing-Alongs [NY Daily News]
Brooklyn Teen Stabbed to Death in Broad Daylight [NY Daily News]
Brooklyn Brewery Getting Expansion Money from ESDC [Brooklyn Eagle]
Park Litterers Given Free Pass, Dog Owners Hit Hard [Brooklyn Paper]
Twilight of the W’burg Dirty Girl [NY Observer]
Housing Permits Decline Nationwide [The Real Deal]
Building Sites Drawing eager Bidders Again [Crain’s]
Heights Townhouse Likes Its $12 Million Price [Curbed]
How Much To Rent This Twig House? [Gothamist]
Photo by Daniel Huggard from the Brownstoner Flickr Pool
Dave, I usually only go to the Nethermead or the Great Meadow.
Anyone know what those gorgeous white flowers are? I don’t think they’re roses.
“Good way to get into trouble – mix up your gangs.”
i saw this old white couple throwing up gang signs once. i thought trouble was going to go down, but it turns out they were just deaf and talking in sign language.
big up ali g
“Geithner Affirms U.S. Role as Mortgage Backer [NY Times]”
Legalized price-fixing continues. Truly pathetic that our economy relies on the shoring up of a collapsing Ponzi scheme.
“‘We must take this opportunity to build a more stable housing finance system that better protects American taxpayers,’ Mr. Geithner said.”
No need to build. Demolish. What’s wrong with the private system? Let prices fall to their natural equilibrium and risk will go away. Private capital will return.
“‘To suggest that there’s a large place for private financing in the future of American housing finance is unrealistic,’ Mr. Gross said.”
Um, it was realistic before the bubble, Mr. PIMPco. Oh you mean unrealistic for you to avoid losses. No conflict here. What’s wrong with 30% down? Oh, the prices!
***Bid half off peak comps***
Sorry for the young man who was killed, but look at the photo – isn’t that some sort of gang sign he’s making? And aren’t those beads he’s wearing? But red beads w. a blue cap, I don’t know – and that hand sign is one of MS-13’s I’m told, so he was really confused I guess. Good way to get into trouble – mix up your gangs.
ha – the person who wrote the dirty girl story should win the pulitzer.
Is the hetero fascination with the Dirty Girls similar to my fascination with Rough Trade??????
Between the Dirty Girl story and the “Mystery of the Ghost Stroller”, we are clearly in the dog days of Summer.
By dittoburg on August 18, 2010 9:36 AM
That map in the NY Post story confirms what an environmental engineer told me once – DUMBO air pollution is the worst in Brooklyn.
But apparently that doesn’t matter because DUMBO is sooooo fabulous!!
DUMPO