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Remembering Linda Mariano

Linda Mariano, a lifelong advocate for the Gowanus community, shown above as Miss Gowanus on the 100th anniversary of the Gowanus Flushing Tunnel in 2011, passed away last month. Brad Vogel, who we know from the Gowanus Dredgers, wrote these words in memory of her full life: “Linda and I served on the Community Advisory Group together (she helped get […]

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PS 676 hosts autism awareness day, by Nathan Weiser

PS 676 held their first autism awareness day on Thursday, April 8, in the middle of World Autism Month. The PTA was excited about being at their first event since the pandemic began. Thursday was a beautiful spring day and many different neighborhood organizations and NYC based developmental and community groups came to the Huntington Street schoolyard. The United Nations-sanctioned […]

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Methodist opens the new facility that replaces 8 historic brownstones

Park Slope’s Methodist Hospital opened their Center for Community Health (CCH) in March. It is an ambulatory care center where specialists provide exceptional, comprehensive care, according to the hospital. The six-story, 400,000-square-foot facility, is located on 6th Street between 7th Avenue and 8th Avenue. It is the first major ambulatory care facility built in Brooklyn in 40 years and also […]

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Big questions about Public Place remain, by Jorge Bello

Members of the Gowanus Canal Community Advisory Group were smiling in their Zoom squares when Christos Tsiamis, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) engineer leading the Gowanus Canal Superfund cleanup, reappeared on their screens on March 23. Tsiamis had not attended the group’s monthly virtual meetings since December, when he expressed concerns over changes utility company National Grid made last summer […]

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Not everybody loves the Governors Island rezoning, by George Fiala

The city is about to approve a rezoning proposal that divides Governors Island in half – one half parkland and the other half commercial with an emphasis on climate research. It seems like a laudable proposal, but a group called Metro Area Governors Island Coalition (M.A.G.I.C.)has come out with an alternate plan. Here is what they say: 1. Bringing in […]

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Opinion: Why killing Washburn’s Model Block is even more important than before, by George Fiala

Following the example of Italian developer Estate Four, UPS has decided to flip their 350,000 square feet Red Hook property rather than execute their planned project. I’ve heard from credible sources that UPS has put their 350,000 square feet of waterfront property, which they bought for around $300 million a few years ago, on the market. While Estate Four was […]

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A St. Patty’s Day Story Gone Astray

“Yo, Enright! Wake up! I need a Patty’s Day story.” It was George again. “But, boss, I’m working on this important piece about the new fish section at Food Bazaar!” “Look, your mother was born in Limerick and your twin sister lives there, so toss the fish and get busy.” Damn. As a very dedicated and accomplished consumer of adult […]