Can you make a 311 call and Tweet DeBlasio @NYCMayor today? Friends of Bushwick Inlet Park is organizing a Twitter Storm at 12pm! After many months of nonstop activism to try to get the city […]
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The Fate of Bushwick Inlet: “Where’s Our Park?” Meeting Tonight!
What’s been going on with the negotiations between the city and the owner of the CitiStorage site? Come join Friends of Bushwick Inlet Park tonight at Greenpoint Beer & Ale to chat […]
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What’s Next For Bushwick Inlet Park As $100 Mill Offer Expires
“The city can’t just rest on its laurels and say it made an offer,” said State Assemblyman Joe Lentol on the steps of City Hall, where the North Brooklyn community […]
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Rally at City Hall to Save Bushwick Inlet Park Tomorrow (Mon, 8/8, 11AM)
The city is just 11 acres away from fulfilling its promise to deliver all 27 acres of Bushwick Inlet Park and made a $100 million offer to purchase the final piece needed on June […]
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Train Thoughts & Trash Talk — The Hook-Up 7/29
Though full-size G Trains are very much on the agenda for the coming L Train shutdown, here’s another thought: extending the E to run along the G track to take […]
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The City’s Offer to Purchase Last Piece for Promised Park Expires on August 8th
Bushwick Inlet Park is 11 acres away from being realized and the city is trying to make good on the promise it made over a decade ago by its offer […]
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$100 Million Still Not Enough for Final Piece of Bushwick Inlet Park
The city is only one purchase away from obtaining the final puzzle piece needed to complete Bushwick Inlet Park: an 11-acre piece of land owned by Norman Brodsky and Samuel Kaplan […]
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A $53 Million Victory for Bushwick Inlet Park
Though the crucial CitiStorage site is still at large, Friends of Bushwick Inlet Park is celebrating an incremental victory in its fight to secure the full 28-acre park Brooklyn was […]
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A Streetcar Named Whose Desire, Exactly? — The Hook-Up 2/12
Is it the Streetcar Named Desire for the people of New York, or is de Blasio’s proposed streetcar linking Brooklyn and Queens a developer’s fantasy in the making? In either […]
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At CitiStorage Rally, Various Words that Amounted to ‘Where’s Our Park?’
Yesterday was the year anniversary of the 7-alarm fire that razed the CitiStorage warehouse on the Williamsburg waterfront. At a rally held near the site on N. 11th Street and […]