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Williamsburg–Greenpoint–Bushwick

Saturday, April 26, 2008

Con Ed will knock down Kent plant

By Ben Muessig
Williamsburg Waterfront: After weeks of denials, Con Edison admitted this week that it will demolish a defunct power plant on the South Williamsburg waterfront, leveling a neighborhood landmark to make space for possible high-rise condo development. Comments (1).

Dear Billyburg

By Adam Rathe
Lisa Whiteman
Books: When author Jami Attenberg decided to write a "love letter" to Williamsburg, she didn't prattle on about its hipster denizens. She wrote about a little known segment of its population: It's "kept men." Comment.

Power plant gets renewed energy?

By Ben Muessig
Williamsburg Waterfront: A power plant that would block a proposed park on the North Brooklyn waterfront came back to life nearly a month after the state pulled the plug on the idea. Comment.

Exit wound

By Ben Muessig
Greenpoint: A 20-year-old woman became a victim of crossfire when she stepped out of a Greenpoint Avenue club on April 18. Comment.

Intimidation

By Ben Muessig
Williamsburg: Three thugs intimidated a Havemeyer Street man into forking over his wallet and cellphone on April 20. Plus the rest of the crime news from Bushwick and Williamsburg’s 90th Precinct. Comment.

NABBED! Cops catch Billyburg ‘Metropolitan mugger’

By Ben Muessig
Williamsburg: Police locked up a Williamsburg man suspected of at least four knifepoint robberies that horrified the hot neighborhood, an NYPD source told The Brooklyn Paper. Comments (1).

Bklyn music men form supergroup

By Ben Muessig
Music: Five Brooklyn nightlife mini-moguls have taken over the Galapagos site in Williamsburg and turned it into Natural Selection. It’s a Darwin joke, get it? Comment.
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