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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Pokemon Go Takeover, Evolved L Train & Turf Battles at Bushwick Inlet Park — The Hook-Up 7/15
2019 isn’t that far off, and it’s certainly not too soon to pit designers against each other to dream up alternative transit solutions for the dreaded L Train Shutdown. Although […]
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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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The Peril of the Birds, Plus Election Aftermath — The Hook-Up 4/22
What’s stopping Greenpoint’s birds in their tracks? A discussion on the North Brooklyn Community page on Facebook brought attention to a weird prevalence of dead birds (and even a hawk) […]
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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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Local Hot Sauce Company Feels the Bern, Plus Night Bazaar Moves — The Hook-Up 3/11
Brooklyn Night Bazaar is hoping to move back to familiar stomping grounds after its brief respite at the beach last summer. The owner is currently looking to secure a liquor […]
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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 […]
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Tomorrow: Join the Rally for Park Space, One Year After the CitiStorage Fire
It’s been a year since the CitiStorage building went up in flames. And yet: no dice. The city has yet to make good on its 2005 promise to turn 27 […]
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Following CitiStorage Victory, No Rest for the Bushwick Inlet Park Activists
North Greenpoint was treated to some unusually good news regarding the legal status of its waterfront right around the New Year, but as the anniversary of the CitiStorage fire approaches, […]