By Ariella Cohen
Bridge ‘Park’: Perhaps it was “Bard” to happen, but a hip-hop festival in Brooklyn Bridge Park has been booted to make room for Shakespeare.
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By Ariella Cohen
Atlantic Yards: Two of the final holdouts in the Atlantic Yards footprint have quietly settled with developer Bruce Ratner, a move that signifies that the opposition to Brooklyn’s largest real-estate project may be entering its endgame.
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By Ariella Cohen
Red Hook: New York City Transit has agreed to next year reroute the B61 and the B77 bus lines to stop at a corner of Red Hook that is fast turning blue — Ikea blue.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Williamsburg Waterfront: Three conjoined buildings at the dormant Domino Sugar factor on the Williamsburg waterfront have been declared city landmarks, though the status does not affect the plant’s beloved sign, which has the misfortune of hanging on a less aesthetically significant, 1960s-era building.
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The Explainer: Why did a group of activists hatch a new development plan for the Prospect Heights rail yards that Bruce Ratner has already been promised for Atlantic Yards? The Explainer breaks it down.
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By Ariella Cohen
Atlantic Yards: A group of Prospect Heights activists finally did what neither the city nor Bruce Ratner seemed able to do: clean up Pacific Street.
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By Adam F. Hutton
Downtown plan: The Bloomberg Administration co-named a stretch of Duffield Street in Downtown Brooklyn “Abolitionist Place” last Thursday —Â even as the city is planning to tear down historic houses on that block that may have served as stations on the Underground Railroad.
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By Dana Rubinstein
Greene Acres: The three founders of a nearly finished Fort Greene music venue and art gallery that the city intends to raze to make way for a new home for a Manhattan dance group in the BAM Cultural District need to find a new home of their own — now.
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By Dana Rubinstein
Park Slope: The renovation of the Park Slope Armory has … military drum roll … been delayed again.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Williamsburg: It doesn’t look like much, but this little piece of factory at the corner of Meserole and Leonard streets just sold for $5,075,000.
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