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The City Council approved the plan to redevelop the site of the Domino Sugar refinery this afternoon, making way for one of the most ambitious developments in North Brooklyn’s history.
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A stretch of Meserole Street is closed to traffic this afternoon, as the fire department and the Department of Buildings examines a row house that’s threatening to shed some of its facade.
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Ian Schrager is the latest to move into the East Village’s “Death Star” building, Bedford + Bowery has learned.
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The New Amsterdam School, a Waldorf-inspired nursery, pre-K and kindergarten school, is moving into the first floor space of Bloom62, Ben Shaoul’s fancy-schmancy luxury condos that replaced the Cabrini nursing home.
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Gabrielle Hamilton (Photo: Melissa Hom)
That anti-Steve Croman parade isn’t the only headache the landlord is facing. Last week, the State Supreme Court ordered that he repay $57,075 to Gabrielle Hamilton, chef-owner of Prune, who had considered one of his properties for a new eatery.
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Brenda Stolcely of IWWD
It’s May Day again, but — so far — there hasn’t been the sort of drama we’ve seen in recent years, when over 30 people were arrested in 2012 and still more were apprehended in 2013.
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This Saturday, Loisaida United Neighborhood Gardens (LUNGS) is putting on an event that sounds like a blend between Mardis Gras and Earth Day.
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Should Airbnb pay hotel taxes? The issue is still causing the kind of drama you wouldn’t want in your home — and lawmakers are now arguing that the service’s hosts, whose names they’re trying to get their hands on, are driving up rents for the rest of us.
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North Brooklyn residents want Manhattanites to stop treating Williamsburg and Greenpoint like a dumping ground.
The two neighborhoods are the location of 19 out of the city’s 58 trash dumps, which is the highest concentration in the city, according to the New York Public Interest Group. The number of dumps in Manhattan? Zero.
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Ask anyone living near the Lower East Side’s Catherine Street shelter and they will tell you it’s a hellhole.
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