For the Kiddies:

• Diaper Panic at Park Slope Disco [Gothamist]
• Baby Loves Disco [Baby Named Jonas]
• Park Slope Dilemma: $5 cookies or Hungry Kids? [Gawker]

For the Grown Ups:

• Incoming Assem. Jeffries Supports Atlantic Yards Delay, Changes [AYR]
• ESDC Must Revise Final Atlantic Yards Impact Statement [AYR]
• Zen Garden at the Washington [Set Speed]
• Myrtle Tower Gets Bigger [Brownstoner]
• Verrazano Bridge Turns 42 [Sunset Parker]
• A World of Wonder Outside Brooklyn [Daily Intelligencer]
• Speak Up to Keep the Willoughby Street Pedestrian Plaza [streetsblog]
• NYC Food: A Tale of Two Cities [Sunset Parker]
• South Slope Racoon Menace [Brooklyn Record]
• The Eagle Warehouse [Dumbo NYC]

Sometimes the little things can make a big, big difference. That may be the case with yesterday’s statement by Empire State Development Corp. Chair Charles Gargano noting that some comments submitted in reponse to the Draft Environmental Impact Statement on Atlantic Yards “were not included” in the final document. (Such an oversight could legally undermine the entire approval process.) The development is reported by Atlantic Yards Report, which quotes Gargano’s statement as saying, “I immediately directed ESDC staff to conduct a thorough quality control review, which is now underway. All comments inadvertently excluded from the FEIS are being carefully considered. The FEIS will be amended to include the substantive comments that had been omitted and responses to those comments, and re-presented to the ESDC Board for consideration. It is essential that the public comment process be faithfully followed in letter and spirit.”

We’re guessing yesterday wasn’t such a good one at ESDC central, where the pressure has been on to get Atlantic Yards finished before George Pataki’s lease in Albany expires. What this means is that there may be a delay that makes it impossible to complete the process of approving the Atlantic Yards proposal and forwarding it to the Public Authorities Control Board before the end of Gov. Pataki’s term. While Gov.-elect Spitzer supports the project, there is a chance the project could change if it must run the Eliot Spitzer-Sheldon Silver gauntlet.

A case in point is the development known as McCarren Park Mews. It’s located between N. 10th and N. 11th Streets at Roebling in Williamsburg. We’ve watched as the former buildings have been demolished and the site has grown to encompass nearly half the block. We’ve also noticed that oil is oozing out of the soil, especially as the hole gets deeper and noted a profusion of wood pilings sunk into the ground. The photo above has four of the shots we took recently.

There are places where the soil is black because it is so saturated with oil and there is an overpowering smell of oil coming from the site. When we looked for info, we found a blogger describing the building across the street from this site as an “ugly, semi-giant, multi-unit building on top of tanks of toxic oil or some other sort of disgusting, poisonous chemical.” The Bad Advice blog said of the builder and building:

He moved a bunch of people in, no doubt paying insane rents, only to have to evict them within a year after the DEP shut him down. After laying vacant for a couple years, there’s been some activity recently. Workers moving out washer/dryers, guys cleaning the windows, etc. Now suddenly a sign goes up, billing it as “luxury condos” for under 500k.

When we posted this on Curbed a reader included some valuable background as part of a comment:

It is the remains of a once-thriving industrial area built on a swamp. Bushwick Creek (nee Norman Kill) used to run roughly under this site, and much of the surrounding area was swamp land. Follow that with lots of industrial uses during the 20th century, and you get a lovely stew.

Another reader noted that he has seen “people sweeping toxic tire tracks back into the site.”

We first started paying more attention to the site (other than the smell that finally got our attention) when we noticed a “rain making” machine, like they use for movies, parked next to the site for about a month. Large piles of soil are also covered with blue tarp after the dirt is excavated.

There is no indicaiton of Department of Environmental Protection involvement or any signs noting any sort of toxic or hazardous material cleanup. However, we noted that soil has been removed from the site since last week and that the hole has gotten deeper. The epicenter of the ooze seems to be the northeast corner of the site.

We await the renderings of the project and the offering that will no doubt use some sort of McCarren Park sales pitch for the very expensive condos that will go atop this mess.

(We will have more photos of the toxic slime challenging development conditions tomorrow.)

They’ve finally broken ground on the Whole Foods in Gowanus. By the time it is completed, the area will no doubt be known by it’s unofficial name, Park Slope. The site is across the street from my artist studio, and I took this picture the other day.

The ceremony was reported in Gawker, among others. And remember, the Gowanus Canal brings hours of family fun! You haven’t lived until you’ve paddled a canoe through the yards of feces and used sanitary products that bob playfully in the water. A wise person once said: You can’t spell Gowanus without ANUS.

We’ll ignore the last line, and simply say, Thank You God, for the employee who put that sign up on the hazardous cleanup sign that has graced the Whole Food site all year. (Our only regret is that we weren’t there to get the image ourselves, because it’s the kind of shot that makes life worth living.) Oh, by the way, Lois creates gorgeous porcelain plates, bowls and other work. Check out her site here.

Fort Greene is right at the top of any list of Brooklyn neighborhood’s being deeply impacted by current and future development, and so tonight’s meeting on “Development Going Up on the Streets of Fort Greene” is an important one. The session is being sponsored by the Fort Greene Association and will start at 7:30PM, with light refreshments served beforehand at 7:00. It will take place at 85 South Oxford Street, which is between Lafayette and Fulton.

Of particular interest will be remarks by Joe Chan, the President of the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership and the so-called “Development Czar” of downtown. Mr. Chan oversees the development within the “Downtown Brooklyn Plan,” including the massive projects going up on Flatbush Avenue, those on Fulton Street and Myrtle Avenue and properties within the BAM Cultural District. Newly elected Assembly Member Hakeem Jeffries from the 57th District will also be a special guest speaker.

Holiday-Related:

• Turkey Week TV [Gothamist]
• More About Prospect Park in Lights [Flatbush Gardener]
• Save the Seventh Avenue Snowflakes [OTBKB]
• Christmas Fair at “Little Denmark” [Blather from Brooklyn]

Not Holiday-Related:

• Development Watch: Fifth Ave. Committee in Red Hook [Brownstoner]
• Playstation 3 Brooklyn Insanity [Sexy Jesus/Vox]
• Enamoo on Smith [Apartment Therapy]
• Carroll Gardens Residents Want Rezoning Against Overdevelopment [C. Gardens Courier]
• Memories of St. George Hotel Pool [Brooklyn Heights Blog]
• Federal Courthouse Parking Lot Being Turned into a Plaza [NYDN]
• Construction to Start on New Gowanus Whole Foods [P. Slope Courier]
• Running Midwood and Borough Park [Runs Brooklyn]
• 70 Reasons to Miss Brooklyn and NYC [activerain]

New York Water Taxi is launching a new commuter service from Brooklyn’s Fulton Ferry Landing in Dumbo to Pier 11 (Wall Street) and East 34^th Street in Manhattan on Monday, November 27^th. The stop is being added to Water Taxi’s “East River Route,” which includes service from Long Island City and from Schaefer Landing in Williamsburg. The Schaefer landing route was added in July. According to the press release that Water Taxi sent out:

This morning and evening service will connect residents of DUMBO and Brooklyn Heights to jobs in midtown and lower Manhattan and provide convenient access to health care and educational facilities ranging from NYU Medical Center and the Veterans Hospital to the United Nation’s International School. (See attached route/schedule.)…To celebrate expanded East River service, New York Water Taxi invites commuters to take the “First Ride on Us” and get two free one way tickets anywhere along the East River route between Monday, November 27th and Friday, December 1st.

Water Taxi is offering a $2 promotional fare through spring. For more information, check out New York Water Taxi’s website.

We don’t generally post a lot of serious items on Sunday, but today’s Atlantic Yards Report brought our attention to remarks made by State Assem. Speaker and Public Authorities Control Board Member Sheldon Silver in an appearance on WNBC’s News Forum that was streamed live on Friday online and that aired on TV today. (A transcript of the entire Q&A is available here.)

It has long been known that Silver–with his crucial PACB vote–would be the person in charge of the final Atlantic Yards End Game. From remarks that were published yesterday, it’s also clear he detests outgoing Empire State Development Corp. chair Charles Gargano. Silver called the man in charge of the ESDC’s work on Atlantic Yards “the most corrupt, most corrupt member of this administration.” He want on to say:

Take a look what he did to economic development in this state. This–he has no credibility here. He has interests that obviously lie opposite the state of New York during his entire 12 years in this administration…. His gambling interests that he’s had over the years, pushing for things that have absolutely nothing to do to benefit New York. So he was selected because he was the governor’s fund-raiser, and he continued in that capacity for 12 years…And that’s why we are in such a sad economic state in upstate New York, because the governor took his fund-raiser rather than an economic development professional for New York. He has no credibility in this state, no matter what he says. So let’s be very clear about that.

On Atlantic Yards, there is rampant talk that Silver is being lobbied to put off a vote on the project until after Eliot Spitzer takes office (Spitzer is very pro, but might tinker with the model) or even until the eminent domain suit is resolved. There is also some thought he will broker some sort of compromise to genuinely reduce the scale of the project (those smaller models that Mr. Ratner and Mr. Gehry are said to have ready) and further mitigate traffic and other impacts. Here’s what Mr. Silver had to say:

I can’t tell you what Joe Bruno’s going to do; I can only tell you what I would consider. One, as an old Brooklyn Dodger fan, I believe professional sports belongs in Brooklyn, as far as that goes. The merits of the project still to be examined; they’re still being actually developed on a day-to-day basis. It changes. We have members of the assembly who are for it, members of the assembly who are against it. Unlike the [West Side] Stadium, where every representative of the area and the surrounding area of that stadium, be it Congress, state Senate or assembly, opposed that stadium. I wasn’t the only one opposed to that stadium, let’s be very clear about that.

In Brooklyn, it’s a mixed bag. There are people for it, people against it, and the proposal itself keeps changing somewhat. So we’ll look at it in a very favorable light because development is necessary down there, see how the developer responds to some of the criticism, either because of the mass of the project or some of the traffic, and I would say right now, the only vote we’ve taken is to support the development. We have voted for $100 million as a state component to that project.

So, there you have it. The man with the power to bless or kill the development says he looks at it “in a very favorable light” but in the same breath says he wants to see “how the developer responds to some of the criticism.” Mr. Silver may do many things, but one thing he doesn’t appear predisposed to doing is rubberstamp the proposal.

The most interesting part of the article, though, may be the info about Coney real estate values:

Coney Island housing prices, though still reasonable by New York standards, have risen sharply in the last five years — fueled in part, according to real estate agents, by an influx of well-heeled Russians from neighboring Brighton Beach.

The median sales price for a one- to three-bedroom house, for instance, was $369,000 in the first six months of the year, according to the Brooklyn Board of Realtors, more than double the price in the same period in 2001.

“Like a Bourbon Street, before Katrina”?

It’s the weekend so it’s time to turn our attention to the land of pathos, regret and comedy–Craigslist Missed Connections. This week our Top Choice is from a loft party in Williamsburg:

Dude in marching band jacket at loft party last night – w4m – 31

We were sitting on perpendicular couches and exchanged glances like 10 times.

My friend was like “Dude, Sergeant Pepper is totally checking you out”. Then my other friend said the same thing. And I was like, “I know, he’s totally cute”. I offered you some of my Jack and you accepted with a smile. But I was too shy to say anything else because I’m a total moron.

Then you put on a hat, and I thought you got up to see the band. BUt I asked your taller friend where you went later on and he said you left. boooooooooooo.

That was a great party, but it would have been better if you stayed.

I really like your jacket.

By the way, I was the chick with the big red hair. And awesome corset booties. (Like you didn’t know.)

Sergeant Pepper? For real?

Pics:

• Gil Hodges Bridge [Bay Ridge Blog]
• Gerritsen Beach Lobster [Gerritsen Beach Net]
• Sun Comes Up in Prospect Park [seriously excited!]
• Members Only [Park Slope Street Photography]
• Season’s Greetings from Park Slope [Dope on the Slope]
• Sun Kissed Brooklyn [atomische.com]

Words:

• A New Brooklyn Food Coop [NYT]
• Is Your Child a Tagger? [Sunset Parker]
• Moonstruck Tour of Brooklyn [No Safe Harbor]
• Trying to Get Across the Street Alive in Bay Ridge [NYT]
• Books for Brooklynophiles [Dope on the Slope]
• What’s New on Myrtle [Clinton Hill Blog]
• Prospect Heights in the 60s [Daily Heights]
• Bay Ridge Turns on the Holiday Lights [Bay Ridge Conservative]
• Community Board 6 Snubbed at EMS Ribbon Cutting on Bond [NYT]

Our favorite New York City website, forgotten-ny.com, has posted a fascinating item with tons of photos about the neighborhood around Myrtle and Knickerbocker Avenues in Brooklyn. Author Kevin Walsh relates that he had free time after his appearance on WNYC’s Brian Lehrer, so he took the M Train to Bushwick. After correctly observing that the Chambers Street station under the Municipal Building appears to have last been cleaned “in the LaGuardia administration” (the grit and filth are astounding, even by New York standards), he offers superb photos and excellent insight into this part of Bushwick. A sample:

At 13 letters, “Knickerbocker” is the longest street name in Brooklyn (that consists of one word): sorry, Schermerhorn Street, you’re a letter short. Though you don’t see him around much anymore compared to, say, Uncle Sam, in previous decades the personification of New York City was “Father Knickerbocker,” a representation of the city’s original Dutch settlers, who wore a cotton wig, three-cornered hat, buckled shoes, and, of course, “knickered” pants. The pants rolled up just below the knee and remained in use as boyswear well into the 20th Century; on the golf course, they’re known as “plus fours,” with the late Payne Stewart one of the few latterday golfers maintaining the style. The New York Knicks’ formal name is the Knickerbockers, with the name drawn from a hat soon after the club’s founding in 1946.

But why does the street name turn up here? The answer may lie in the name of the next avenue to the northeast, Irving Avenue. A number of streets in the area evoke Washington Irving, the famed author of the early 19th Century, and a character in his 1809 spoof History of New York is named… Dietrich Knickerbocker. Bleecker Street, which also runs through Bushwick and Ridgewood, is likely named for an Irving crony, Anthony Bleecker, a wealthy merchant. The Dutch theme continues with sister avenues Wyckoff and St. Nicholas. Knickerbocker Avenue had attained its name, at least on maps, by 1855.

Don’t forget Mr. Walsh’s superb book, Forgotten New York: Views of a Lost Metropolis. The holidays are coming, after all.

Propsect Park is going to host some interesting new light displays for the holidays. Called “Prospect Park in Lights,” the lighting installation will feature more than 600,000 lights. The illuminations will be featured at four of the Park’s entrances, viewable every evening from November 27 through January 7, 2007. The display is being sponsored by the Daily News. The lights will officially be turned on at a launch ceremony on Monday, November 27 beginning at 6:00 p.m. at Grand Army Plaza.

The illuminated displays, which were created by noted Brooklyn-based lighting designer Jim Conti, will decorate the major gateways to the Park: Grand Army Plaza, including the historic Soldier’s and Sailor’s Memorial Arch and the Bailey Fountain; Bartel-Pritchard Circle; Park Circle; and the Parkside and Ocean Avenue entrance. (The illustration here, which was provided by the Prospect Park Alliance, shows the Bailey Fountain, which has been beautifully restored although it is hard to reach because of Grand Army Plaza traffic.)

The displays will use LEDS to, in the words of the Alliance, “transform some of Prospect Park’s most historic architectural elements into a wonderful holiday spectacle. These will include a wave-shaped structure built and covered in lights to create the effect of flowing water at Bailey Fountain and colored lights placed on the Pergola at the Parkside and Ocean entrance, giving the appearance of blooming vines. Many of the lights will change colors and are synchronized with wireless animated controllers.”

On Saturday and Sunday evenings there will be free trolley bus service around the Park for viewing the lights. And, of course, we’ll have the big New Year’s Eve Prospect Park fireworks display.

We are, like, so there for the free night bus tour of the lights.

There’s just something about the G Train that inspires a certain something. (And, boy, is it going to inspire some writing after residential development in Greenpoint and other neighborhoods makes thousands more writers dependent on the line.) Case in point is this item posted on the blog Kneecapped:

Last night, while sprinting down the Bergen St. subway platform to catch the little G train that stops in the middle of the platform, far away from the entrances, my wife made a funny comparison. The G train is like the short bus.

I have to agree. The G is smaller than normal trains, it doesn’t go into Manhattan (mainstream school?), and acts as an auxiliary train service.

The short bus stops in many different and spread out school districts, picking up students and bringing them to a central (special?) school. The G train rides through Brooklyn and Queens wrangling up hipsters to bring to Williamsburg or yuppies to drop off in Cobble Hill.

The G is also an object of scorn and mockery. When people hear you live on the G train their eyes become glassy. Their expression grows into one of confusion and pity.

So here’s to you G train, don’t let anyone tell you you’re different.

Us, we love the fact the G has been running to Coney Island on weekends for, like, the last two months.

Photos:

• p.s. I Love You (Nightshoot) [A Test of Will]
• Love [bluejake]
• Batcave Inspection [f.trainer/flickr]
• Friday Photo: Kids Watching Pizza [Clinton Hill Blog]
• Waterfront in Red Hook [jUSTINYC]
• Counter [No Words_Daily Pix/OTBKB]
• Union Street [Frank Lynch/flickr]
• Gowanus Bay Swan [Lex’s Folly]
• Horizontal and Veritcal–Caroll Street Bridge [seriously excited!]
• Benches [pixelopera]
• Expressway Overpass [atomische/flickr]

Words:

• Gargano, Schumer & Moses on the March of Progress [AYR]
• Living in Coney Island: Renewal Has Its Hazards [NYT]
• FAO Schwarz Downplays Park Slope Rumor [Brooklyn Papers]
• Guttman to Gut Dumbo? [Brownstoner]
• Whole Foods Puts Go in Gowanus [Brooklyn Record]
• Gowanus Whole Foods Renders Manhattan Irrelevant [Daily Intelligencer]
• Gowanus Whole Foods Ups Themeparkification Ante [Gawker]
• Addams Family Gardening Values [Flatbush Gardener]
• Community Board 7 Annual Holiday Gift Drive [Sunset Parker]
• Society for Clinton Hill Meeting Recap [Clinton Hill Blog]
• Park Slope Family Fun [Sunset Parker]
• Musical Chairs on Seventh Avenue [OTBKB]

• A Sign the Old Williamsburg is Bravely Clinging to Life (Above)
• Formula for New, Improved Williamsburg Mustard
• David Walentas Hates Starbucks & Chain Drugstores
• New Williamsburg Condos to Offer Free Oil?
• Final Atlantic Yards Document Released, Partly Digested
• Park Slope: Where Fun Goes to Die?
• Hipster Tenants Offer Demolition Services
• Prime Toxic Bedford Avenue Lot Update
• 55 Berry: If All Else Fails, Tape Up a Crapload of Flyers

Whole Foods held the long-awaited groundbreaking in Gowanus yesterday for their 68,000 square foot store at Third Avenue and Third Streets. The store will include a three-story, 430-car parking garage in addition to surface parking. According to a release made available by Borough President Marty Markowitz the store “will feature unique Brooklyn touches like egg-cream and gelato stations.”

The site has had a troubled environmental history. Toxic problems were discovered that brought construction to a halt and, then, Whole Foods purchased additional property next to the site. Neighborhood groups have complained that they have not been given key environmental documents by the state. The site continues to have a large pool of water from groundwater seepage.

In any case, the new mega-store is slated to open in Spring 2008 and is certain to fundamentally change Gowanus as we know it. The release boasts of 500 permanent jobs (Whole Foods is a non-union employer. It is, in fact, the nation’s second-largest non-union food retailer after Wal-Mart.) and of a “Community Room” at the supermarket “available to local civic groups.” The design (a rendering of which was held up at the groundbreaking, but that is not available online) preserves the recently landmarked two-story, 19th century brick building situated at the property’s corner. It also includes “a landscaped, publicly accessible 40-foot-wide waterfront esplanade along the Gowanus Canal.” (We’re hoping for better design and more pleasant siting than the benches placed along the Gowanus in the Lowe’s parking lot.)

“Whole Foods Market will be a welcome anchor to the neighborhood we now call ‘Brooklyn’s Venice,’” Borough President Markowitz said. “As the newest waterfront addition knitting together the neighborhoods of Park Slope, Boerum Hill, Carroll Gardens, and Red Hook, we’re putting the ‘Go’ in Gowanus!”

The development has gone forward in a very incremental way and skirted much of the local planning process because of the “as of right” nature of the project. As such, it has been able to avoid groups in the neighborhood that might have raised questions about issues such as traffic impact and enviromental quality. The Whole Food people will make a presentation to “the community” at a meeting of the Park Slope Civic Council on December 7. One local source was unimpressed, saying, “Nearly every large very local development brings their dog-and-pony show by in order to be able to tell politicians that they are meeting with “the community.”

It’s estimated that the big store will attract more than a thousand new cars an hour–and possibly as many as 1,800 an hour–to Park Slope and Gowanus.

This week before the start of the Holiday Season was one of much news about two significant Brooklyn development proposals. First among equals, of course, is Atlantic Yards. The Final Enviornmental Impact Statement was released and within 24-hours a lawsuit about it was already in the works. The release of the document–which could lead to a final approval vote by the Empire State Development Corp. immediately after a legally required 10-day waiting period–elicited many comments. Our own thought is that the lack of sustantive concessions in terms of the scale and density of the project confirmed opponents’ worst fears about the top-down nature of the decisionmaking process.

First and foremost among those digging into the document was Norman Oder, aka “The Mad Overkilling,” who went on an astounding spree of analysis. Among Mr. Oder’s early conclusions were that “mitigation” for problems at a nearby playground would be construction of toilets, that you’re “SOL” if the project puts you in permanent shadow, that there will be only 375 new office jobs, that developer Bruce Ratner clearly won the design guidelines and size game, and that Marty Markowitz’s protestations to the contrary, Miss Brooklyn’s going to be significantly taller than the Williamsburgh Savings Bank Building. We did note with some interest, though, fears that Madison Square Garden might try to derail the Atlantic Yards proposal.

In that fun world we are now calling Coney Island v 2.1, there was a ho-hum reaction to new renderings and building plans. And some people even caught the punchline–that Thor wants to build residential buildings in Coney amusement area. Our favorite Coney blogger concluded that the drawings look like they are meant to confuse and stall for answers.

There was other development news too. We noted that some new Williamsburg condos look like they might come with free oil, given the toxic ooze upon which they are be built. And, there appears to be a preservation battle brewing in Dumbo over developer landlord Josh Guttman‘s plans to demolish a 19th Century foundry and erect a new building designed by Scarano Architects. If you’re looking for an apartment with easy access to reading material, you might consider the housing above a public library option.

The Broken Angel saga continued, with the project going to court and the family selling photos and art to help support repairs to the building.

Speaking of the biggest backer of Atlantic Yards, there were many Marty Markowitz items this week. First, he turned the ceremonial first shovels of dirt at the environmentally-challenged Whole Foods site in Gowanus, calling our namesake nabe the “Venice of Brooklyn.” Then, it was noted that he’s taken up the cause of the Brooklyn parrots, which are still being poached, saying someone is “abusing these beautiful little creatures.” (We may disagree with the Borough Prez on some development issues, but we’re 1,000 percent with him on finding the jerks stealing our parrots.) And, last but not least, he called the self-proclaimed Dogshit Queen of Greenpoint on her cell phone while she was in the bathroom doing Number Two, to discuss a housing problem she’s having. We’ve always been big believers in constituent services.

Oh, and did we say we’re happy to know that more teens are “putting off” parenthood. Could you imagine what Park Slope would be like if they didn’t?

Chaos. Absolutely, and utter chaos.

More Atlantic Yards:

• State Okays Ratner’s “Impact” [Brooklyn Papers]
• Second Atlantic Yards Lawsuit Coming Over Impact Statement [AYR]
• Mad Overkiller Overkills Self [No Land Grab]
• Let’s Build Atlantic Yards [Bay Ridge Blog]
• Rubber Stamp Approval [DWIJR: Brooklyn Edition]

More Everything Else:

• Flatbush: My Little Town [Crazy Stable]
• Beauty is Skin Deep on Skillman [Brownstoner]
• The Grind of the Brooklyn Commute [My Brooklyn Year]
• Gowanus Hoopla! [Kinetic Carnival]
• Just What Coney Island Needs: Water [About Theme Parks]
• Con Ed on Tilden Ave. [My Life in Brooklyn]
• Cabs to Sunset Park [Sunset Parker]
• Hot Dog Place on Fifth Avenue? [OTBKB]
• Killer Plants on Brooklyn Stoops [Brooklyn Record]
• A Look Inside the Jehovah’s Witness HQ [Dumbo NYC]
• Walentas Still Seeking Mom and Pop Dumbo Pharmacy [Dumbo NYC]
• More Mail Trouble in Prospect Heights [Daily Heights]
• New Red Hook Retail: Erie Basin [Design Sponge]
• Gerritsen Geese! [GerritsenBeach.net]