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Solange - Locked In Closets [Official Video]

musicpickings//nina wrote 4 days ago: :: Hit play! . .Solange Knowles Upcoming Tour Dates:  May 24 // Barcelona, ES // Primavera Sound May … more →

Tags: Concerts / Festivals / Tour Dates / Gigs, musicpickings//nina, Streams & Videos, absolut tune, Alan Del Rio Ortiz, Official Video, park slope, refinery29, Solange

Memories of An Aquatic Casualty: Pols Ask City to Halt Gowanus Canal Development Plans

abarbarinobserver wrote 6 days ago: A seven-foot dolphin appeared at the head of the Gowanus Canal earlier this year, ailing and struggl … more →

Bloomberg Touts Improvements At Gowanus Canal; Residents Complain Of Stench

jessicamarcus wrote 1 week ago: NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Despite major flooding from Hurricane Sandy, Mayor Michael Bloomberg s … more →

Tags: News, watch & listen, Local, Heard On, NY News, Lifestyle, Syndication, Radio.com - News, Syndicated Local

Albanese: Bill de Blasio and Mike Bloomberg 'Best Buds'

nycelects wrote 1 week ago: Continuing his direct assault at his Democratic rival, the one who shares his potential base, Sal Al … more →

Tags: Bill de Blasio, NYC 2013, NYC Mayor, NYC2013, sal albanese, albanese, bill de blasio, mayor, Michael Bloomberg

Public Landscapes and the Aesthetics of Toxicity

B Davis wrote 1 week ago: The following piece was published last fall in the Mexican arts magazine La Tempestad at the behest … more →

Tags: American Landscapes, Buenos Aires, Frontiers and borders, future practice, object oriented landscape, Industrial, Public Space, terrain vague

Residents Near Troubled Gowanus Canal Not Happy With Sewage Tank Proposal

jcap17 wrote 2 weeks ago: [worldnow id=8848384 width=420 height=266 type=video] NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Every year, more than … more →

Tags: News, Local, NY News, Radio.com - News, Syndicated Local, EPA, Janelle Burrell

Ray Hall speaking at the most recent CAG meeting

redhookstar wrote 2 weeks ago: Ray Hall falsely telling the Gowanus CAG that all residents of the Red Hook Houses are in favor of t … more →

Tags: EPA, Gowanus GBX, John Quadrozzi, JR, Phaedra Thomas, Ray Hall, Red Hook, Reg Flowers, Toxic Superfund

EDITORIAL - An unfortunate public display14 comments

redhookstar wrote 2 weeks ago: Walter Mugdan said it out loud in a meeting at the South Brooklyn High School. The east coast head o … more →

Tags: Editorials

GBX’s win at all cost strategy backfires, by George Fiala7 comments

redhookstar wrote 2 weeks ago: Reg Flowers chatting it up with Lillie Marshall, John Quadrozzi and Phaedra Thomas in the background … more →

Tags: flowerworks, Gowanus GBX, Gowanus sludge, John Quadrozzi, Lillie Marshall, Lou Sones, Phaedra Thomas, Ray Hall, Red Hook Rise

Gowanus

bluestar2012 wrote 2 weeks ago: Superfund site on a sunny day. 47.512448 -122.375868 … more →

Tags: Blue Sky, Brooklyn, Buildings, Fall, New York, Nikon D7000, urban decay, Gowanus Brooklyn, New York City

Subway Stop at Smith and 9th Streets in Brooklyn Reopens to the Delight of Most, Frustration of Others

abarbarinobserver wrote 3 weeks ago: In an age where the term “new subway” is something of an oxymoron in New York City, the … more →

Tags: ALYSON SHOTZ, Americans with Disabilities Act, Fernando Ferrer, Kevin Ortiz, mass transit authority, New York harbor

Decision Soon on Gowanus Sludge (July 1, 2012), by Matt Graber and Abby Savitch-Lew1 comment

redhookstar wrote 3 weeks ago: This article is reprinted from our July 1-15 2012 issue. It represents the views of GBX and Phaedra … more →

Tags: Gowanus GBX, Gowanus sludge, John Quadrozzi, Phaedra Thomas, Red Hook Star-Revue

Lou Sones speaks at Reg Flowers' Gowanus meeting last week1 comment

redhookstar wrote 3 weeks ago: Lou reading a statement from GAGS (Groups Against Garbage Sites). This was a meeting in which the EP … more →

Tags: Lou Sones, EPA

Highway to Hell

Ashley Dawson wrote 4 weeks ago: Twice a week, I wake up at 6am to prepare for my commute in to work at the College of Staten Island. … more →

Tags: Environment, Urbanity, BQE, newtown creek, petroculture, Robert Moses, Staten Island

Park Slope and Carroll Gardens with Regina Braun

jennifermaravillas wrote 1 month ago: This slideshow requires JavaScript. 0.000000 0.000000 … more →

Tags: Brooklyn, Carroll Gardens, park slope

Views from the Culver Viaduct

lemoncoin wrote 1 month ago: … more →

Tags: NYC, NYC, Subway, city sundays, culver viaduct

Gowanus Canal from the F Train

bluestar2012 wrote 1 month ago: 47.512448 -122.375868 … more →

Tags: BW, Brooklyn, Buildings, New York, Nikon D7000, urban decay, Gowanus Brooklyn, urban decay

Gowanus Regatta

Working Harbor Committee wrote 1 month ago: Come June 15th, the Gowanus Canal will be filled with human-powered boats racing. The Gowanus Dredge … more →

Tags: Environment, New York harbor, boat race, Canoe, fundraising, gowanus dredger, human powered boats, Regatta, SuperFund

My Korean Deli - Ben Ryder Howe

johnjernigan wrote 1 month ago: I loved the nomenclature of this book, and getting to use the word nomenclature…the author(a s … more →

Tags: Books check 'em out, Authors, Ben Ryder Howe, Book Reviews, Books, Brooklyn, Culture, Different, Fiction


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