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[https://www.facebook.com/hamiltons2826/photos/pb.436150933097151.-2207520000.1415123664./739233956122179/?type=3&theater] Photo via Hamilton’s [https://www.facebook.com/hamiltons2826/photos/pb.436150933097151.-2207520000.1415123664./739233956122179/?type=3&theater] Georgia Read, the owner of Hamilton’s [https://www.facebook.com/hamiltons2826] (2826 Fort Hamilton Parkway)
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Click for full flierA group of city planners and neighborhood activists will be meeting tomorrow, March 5, at 7:00 p.m. to begin creating a new comprehensive vision of the Sheepshead Bay waterfront’s commercial and recreational corridors. The public forum, open to all and taking place at the
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Source: Metro Transportation Library and Archive/FlickrTHE COMMUTE [/tag/the-commute/]: Last week in Part 1 [/mta-long-range-planning-part-1-of-2/] , I briefly summarized the MTA’s “Looking Ahead: [http://www.mta.info/mta/news/books/docs/TYN_Vision_7-22-13.pdf] A Context for the Next Twenty Year Needs Assessment” and stated that the MTA’
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ObermanIt’s no small secret that a large amount, perhaps even the majority, of Brooklynites living in Zone A failed to heed the city’s call for a mandatory evacuation during Superstorm Sandy. Some felt the storm would not be as devastating as it proved to be, and reflected on
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A portion of the ceiling crumbled onto the 18th Avenue N train platform this morning. Repairs for the station are not scheduled until October 2014. (Photo by Brian Hedden)THE COMMUTE [/tag/the-commute/]: I’m not talking about crime, but rather the other type of safety. Will the subway derail?
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The Wall Street Journal doesn’t have a lot of nice things to say about 4th Avenue. Bemoaning the 2003 rezoning that encouraged slap-dash residential construction without attention to retail spaces — “effectively killing off the avenue’s vibrancy for blocks at a time” — the WSJ moves from damning to apocalyptic
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Crowdsourcing — what is that? To the untrained ear (i.e. mine), it sounds not unlike a trendy North Brooklyn-originated buzzword, suggestive of skinny ankle jeans- and horn-rimmed-glasses-wearing 20-somethings entrusted with making the grown-up decisions of urban landscaping while casually tossing about corporate exhortations such as “moving forward,” “paradigm shift” and
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Community Board 15 is featuring a speaker tonight from the Department of City Planning to give a presentation on the “Comprehensive Waterfront Plan.” Originally published in 1992, the waterfront plan is a framework for the citywide reclamation of the waterfront, guiding land use decisions along New York City’s shoreline