Caine Blog

I went to a Community Board 1 Executive Committee tonight to check up on little old Studio B, the Greenpoint club that all the neighbors hate.  In looking up one of the members - Joseph Weber, a Hasidic rabbi who is also the first vice chair of CB1 - I came across “Welfare Neighborhood,” a [...]

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I’m still not sure how to think about the community meeting I went to last night in Fort Greene.  (A write-up is here.)  Sure, there were a lot of angry neighbors, and they’d all lived in the neighborhood for awhile (”through the good times and the bad times,” repeated ad nauseum by various Ft. Greene [...]

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Last night I went to a neighborhood meeting about the Brooklyn Flea market, which is very popular and beloved to everyone except the neighbors.  I filed a longer write-up with Racked, which is here, but I’ll muse more extensively on the issue a little later, when I’m less exhausted.

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