This Sunday come to the annual: “Smith Street Sunday Funday” fair.
It runs from 11AM-6PM from Union Street to Bergen street. CORD will a have a table...see you there!!
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Friday, June 20, 2008
Given 50% arena cost increase, DDDB asks PACB to reconsider AY approval
"Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn (DDDB) yesterday asked the three-member Public Authorities Control Board (PACB)—comprised of Governor David Paterson, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno—to revisit its approval of the Atlantic Yards project, given “the dramatic increase in cost of Forest City Ratner’s Atlantic Yards arena and the development project as a whole.” The effort relies on an untested area of state law...."(from AY see link below for more)
Link
http://atlanticyardsreport.blogspot.com/2008/06/given-50-arena-cost-increase-dddb-asks.html
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SECOND RAP IN COLLAPSE DEATH
See This Link at the New York PostBy BILL SANDERSON
June 20, 2008 -- A second suspect was indicted yesterday in the death of a day laborer in a wall collapse at a Brooklyn construction site.
Abraham Herzberg, 86, an engineer, was charged with filing faked papers with the Department of Buildings showing excavation plans for the site in East New York. The papers carried another engineer's signature, the city Department of Investigation says
