This morning, students, teachers and local politicians and community members gathered to celebrate P.S. 34’s brand new Green STEM Lab and Hydroponic Garden. But it’s not just plant life that’s […]
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Pigeons and Protests: The Battle for Tenants Rights at 79 Lorimer Street
At a press conference today in front of 79 Lorimer Street, a multiple-dwelling loft building in South Williamsburg, Councilman Stephen Levin Called the situation “truly Kafkaesque”: three and a half […]
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Newtown Creek Flows all the way to Utah — The Hook-up (2/8)
The mighty waters of Newtown Creek will be in fine form this weekend, as lovebirds and sewage nerds turn out for Saturday’s tours of The Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant, […]
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Anti-Gentrification Panel Discussion in Long Island City Tonight (12/4)
The Queens Anti-Gentrification Project and Progress Queens will be hosting an event tonight called “Money, Power and Politics: Queens Democrats Examined.” The Queens County Democratic Party is also known as […]
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Landmark Commission Approves Design for Domino Sugar Refinery
The architectural firm Practice for Architecture and Urbanism has finally succeeded in winning approval for the redesign of the Domino Sugar refinery on Kent Avenue. An earlier redesign proposal was […]
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Pricey Penthouses, Historic Preservation and a Panel on the L-Pocolypse — The Hook-up 9/15
Even though The New York Times has decreed that 2017 is the “Year of the Renter,” The developers over at 868 Lormier on the Park are hoping you’re in the mood […]
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Park Deli, Greedy Landlord or Normal Neighborhood Changes?
As New York City, and North Brooklyn in particular, go through massive socioeconomic changes, it’s become very common to hear cries of outrage about gentrification. Since the infamous rezoning in […]
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Park Deli Vows to Fight for Survival, But It’s an Uphill Battle
There was a time not long ago when Greenpoint was the ground zero for reasonably priced, delicious, home-cooked food. There seemed to be no end to the great cheap mom […]
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Big N Tall: Greenpoint’s Future Skyline Grows Up
Another skyscraper is rising along the Greenpoint waterfront, slated for completion in 2018. The area is quickly being transformed into a cordon of gleaming skyscrapers. Some people have jokingly started calling our […]
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Recommended Screenings for the Greenpoint Film Festival (3/17 – 3/20)
The Greenpoint Film Festival starts tomorrow, and here is our shortlist of recommended movies for you. The promise of a park in Bushwick Inlet has intrigued Greenpoint residents for a long […]