A $340,000 “Angelmobile” has started cruising the streets of North Brooklyn, handing out free meals in Williamsburg, Greenpoint and Bushwick. The state-of-the-art food truck– funded…
With City’s Offer Expired, Sun Might Be Setting on Bushwick Inlet Park
After 60 days on the table, the city’s offer to pay the former CitiStorage site’s owner $100 million for the final parcel of the long-promised…
Bushwick Inlet Park Advocates Camped Out, Demanded S’more Progress on Negotiations
On Saturday evening, about 40 neighborhood activists and elected officials braved the ominously dark clouds in the sky and gathered on the concrete slab adjacent…
Citistorage Site Owner Sets Offer Deadline as Park Pushers Plan Sleep-In
Last month, the city made a $100 million offer on the final parcel of land needed to complete the long-promised Bushwick Inlet Park along the…
Year After CitiStorage Fire, Park Conversion Is Still a Hot Topic
Nearly a year after a seven-alarm fire ravaged the CitiStorage building in Williamsburg, the fate of the hotly contested land remains in limbo. On Sunday, the…
Bushwick Inlet Park Advocates Stage Funeral in Hopes of Killing Tower Deal
Halloween came early for a developer seeking to take over a controversial plot on the Williamsburg waterfront; this afternoon activists hauling coffins and headstones tried to…
As Developers Swoop in On Williamsburg Fire Site, Park Pushers Ramp Up Rallies
Williamsburg activists are strengthening their calls for the city to acquire the site of a massive storage-facility fire even as the prime waterfront land has reportedly…
Meet the Williamsburg Warehouse’s Landlord, Whose Home Went Up in Flames
When a seven-alarm fire broke out at his Williamsburg storage facility early in the morning of January 31, Norman Brodsky didn’t just lose his office…