By Gersh Kuntzman
Thinkwell
Coney Island: Mega-developer Joe Sitt says that Coney Island responded “Go, Joe, go” when he showed off his revamped plan to transform the area’s beleaguered amusement area — but actually the neighborhood is saying, “No, Joe, no.”
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Editorial: The Paper urges the city to get out of the way and let the market dictate what developer Joe Sitt can build in Coney Island.
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By Ariella Cohen
Atlantic Yards: A man is sleeping in a Dean Street gallery window. It must be about Atlantic Yards, right?
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By Chris Cascarano
Downtown plan: Brooklyn’s tallest office building was sold on Wednesday for $107.5 million to Manhattan’s largest office landlord — and the new owner immediately distanced himself from rumors that the building be converted to luxury residential use like many others in the neighborhood.
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By Dana Rubinstein
Downtown plan: Schermerhorn Street — long home to parking lots, litter, a food stamp distribution center, job placement offices and a Hare Krishna temple — is finally joining the rest of the Downtown Brooklyn residential boom.
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Letters: Our full mailbag includes letters about Borough President Markowitz’s purge of Community Board 6 members, the annual hot dog-eating contest in Coney Island, Bay Ridge’s historic Green Church, a claim that The Brooklyn Paper is sexist (what else is new?!), and concern about God.
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By Mat Probasco
Downtown plan: A city-funded report that denies any Underground Railroad activity along Duffield Street isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on, said a handful of historians, Councilmembers and ticked off residents at a rally on Tuesday.
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By Dana Rubinstein
Fort Greene: A controversial 18-story tower will rise over Clinton Hill, despite the community’s frantic efforts to quash the project, and a lawmaker’s push to make such towers illegal.
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By Dana Rubinstein
Rezoning: Fort Greene and Clinton Hill leaders presented a united front before the City’s Planning Commission on Wednesday — despite some internal squabbling — in a push to get the city to restrict building size in Fort Greene and Clinton Hill.
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