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Schumer joins fight against North Brooklyn fracked gas pipeline

August 8, 2021

US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has joined the grassroots fight against a proposed natural gas pipeline slated to run through several Brooklyn neighborhoods.  Schumer, a Brooklyn native, voiced his opposition to the North Brooklyn Pipeline on Aug. 6, saying that the project would be harmful to vulnerable populations, and that it violates the Climate Leadership and Community Act (CLPCA).  “This pipeline violates the precepts of the CLCPA,” Schumer said at a press conference outside a …

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City to seek land transfer for 85 new below-market-rate rentals in Bedford-Stuyvesant

January 12, 2020

The city wants to transfer three vacant lots in Bedford-Stuyvesant to a pair of development firms to build 85-units worth of deeply affordable housing, which reps for the builders claim will benefit existing residents of the rapidly gentrifying neighborhood.  “We all know the real big issue is that the market-rate housing that’s sort of exploded on us has brought a lot of folks in and we’ve seen a lot of Bed-Stuy residents depart,” Gordon Bell, an executive at the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation, told members of Community Board…

Filed Under: Lifestyle Tagged With: affordable housing, bedford stuyvesant, hpd

The last night before gentrification: The 77′ NYC Blackout

December 29, 2018

I remember my aunt (who will undoubtedly toss some cents at this post) telling us it was a blackout. My grandmother or maybe my mom, was skeptical. On this mid July day 40 years ago I was a tiny child and the day was still brightly lit at something passed 7:30 PM or probably later based on what came next.Also the TV was on. Contradictory to any “Blackout” talk the house offered, Roger Grimsby a name who bore a a news man on Channel 7 to fit it, joylessly told the news of the day, and I’m certain (due to my strange memory) he was talking about power outages. The household debate between a girl, her…

Filed Under: Lifestyle Tagged With: american history, bedford stuyvesant, summerofsam

Renovations Coming Along at Mayfield’s Bedford Stuyvesant Venture

July 23, 2014

The folks who run Mayfield are busy with renovations at their next venture, a bar with Mexican food truck in… Read More… Read More

Filed Under: Real estate Tagged With: bedford stuyvesant, food and drink



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