Quicklink: Possible Conflicts Of Interest Regarding Domino Vote?
As I mentioned previously tonight our local Community Board will be conducting their monthly meeting. What you might not know is they are scheduled to take yet another vote regarding the controversial conversion of the former Domino Sugar Factory (as seen at left) into 2,200 market rate condominiums and a modicum (READ: pittance) of affordable housing. I mention the previous because the Williamsburg Greenpoint News + Arts has published a very compelling article regarding several members of our Community Board whose business relationships with the Community Preservation Corporation (the entity is behind the aforementioned proposal) pose serious questions about possible conflicts of interest. This article is a must read for anyone curious about what’s happening at Domino. Check it out!
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Photo Credits: Benjamin Lozovsky, WGNA
Williamsburg Photos Du Jour: Land Shark
Filed under: 11211, East Williamsburg, East Williamsburg Brooklyn, Street Art, Williamsburg, Williamsburg Brooklyn
From Manhattan Avenue.
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TONIGHT: Pigeon Life
Filed under: 11211, 11222, Greenpoint, Greenpoint Brooklyn, Greenpoint Magic, Williamsburg, Williamsburg Brooklyn
If you’re looking for something to do tonight, look no further. Thanks to the miracle that is the New York Shitty inbox I’ve found it. Or would it have found me? In any case it is called “Pigeon Life” and it will come to pass at Pete’s Candy Store. Here’s the 411 per their press release:
WHAT ARE YOU DOING TONIGHT???
PIGEON LIFE!
An Investigation in to a Filthy Bird Slum w/Jamie Hook
Monday, March 8, 2010, 7:30pm
Lorimer Street between Meserole and Calyer is home to a bona-fide pigeon slum. Filthy birds congregate there in curious density, forsaking adjacent inviting areas to crowd in a building-side favela of avian vice and depravity. Most mysteriously, they are supported in their wayward lifestyle by some unseen neighborhood abettor, who reliably finds the most fetid offal form the local garbage bins to sustain (or poison?) these flying rodents: rotten vegetables, maggoty meat, and moldy bread are just a few of the regular leavings that join the lice-encrusted feathers and fecal whitewash littering the sidewalk. Who is the filthy enabler, and why do they do it? Why does the Rite Aid not stop them? What is the neighborhood consensus on this menace? Join Jamie Hook for a hard-hitting Powerpoint investigation.
NOTE: As March 8 is the presenter’s birthday, refreshments will be served!!
JAMIE HOOK is the curator of Open City Dialogue. He has previously lectured on Barry White and Santa Claus–both of whom really get him going. His theatre work includes the coast-to-coast fringe smash Point Break Live! His film work includes August Wilson’s only screen role in The Naked Proof. His writing has appeared in Vogue, Harpers and The Village Voice.
So there have you. If any of you, dear readers, check this out I expect a review in my inbox or comments by tomorrow morning.
PIGEON LIFE!
Monday, March 8, 2010 starting at 7:30 p.m.
Pete’s Candy Store
709 Lorimer Street
Brooklyn, New York 11211
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Image Credits: Pete’s Candy Store
Williamsburg Photo Du Jour: Feels Like Spring!
This cheery tableau (and one of the most ingenious uses of Bloomblight— in this case a derelict construction fence— yours truly has ever seen) hails from Metropolitan Avenue.
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From The New York Shitty Photo Pool: Like Father, Like Son
Filed under: 11211, 11222, Greenpoint, Greenpoint Brooklyn, Greenpoint Magic, Williamsburg, Williamsburg Brooklyn
This photo was taken at (where else?) McCarren Park and comes courtesy of Fake Hipster. Nice capture!
Miss Heather
New York Shitty Day Ender: Cat & Mouse
Filed under: 11206, 11211, 11221, 11222, Bushwick, Bushwick Brooklyn, Crazy Cat Lady, East Williamsburg, East Williamsburg Brooklyn, Greenpoint, Greenpoint Brooklyn, Greenpoint Magic, Street Art, Williamsburg, Williamsburg Brooklyn
South 5 Street, 11211
Richardson Street, 11211
South 5 Street, 11211
Manhattan Avenue, 11206
Broadway, 11221
Manhattan Avenue, 11222
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