At the beginning of the year, Streetsblog embarked on a project we hope will shed light on city pedestrian and cyclist fatalities that appear to have been written off as blameless "accidents." To date, we have filed freedom of information requests with NYPD pertaining to 10 pedestrian deaths, and will be [...]
Soon after the Senate signed off yesterday on a $150 billion package of tax extenders and unemployment benefits that was promoted as a job-creation measure — a bill that lacked dedicated new funding for transportation — Democrats on the House education and labor committee were releasing their own jobs legislation.
The House proposal [...]
You might have seen it making the rounds over the last couple of days — the new Mercedes ad in which a bike messenger challenges a driver in one of the company’s luxury vehicles to a race from Harlem to the Fulton Ferry landing in Brooklyn.
There are many irritating things about [...]
Ravitch Budget Plan Gains Traction Among Desperate Lawmakers (NYT)
Groundbreaking for Ratner’s Arena Is Today (Crain’s, NY1, News 1, 2)
Dear Mr. President: Funding for New Transit Projects Welcome, But Don’t Forget the Old Ones (MTR)
Walder [...]
Free concerts will return to the Williamsburg waterfront this summer, but the kickoff concert — Faith No More on July 5 — and a handful of others will require an admission fee as a benefit for the nonprofit Open Space Alliance for North Brooklyn, organizers said Wednesday.
Prices haven’t yet been set, but the Faith No More tickets will go on sale through Ticketmaster on March 19 at noon. Tickets may also be purchased via phone (800) 745-3000 or at the Nokia Theatre Times Square Box Office, where there is no service fee. The presale will start March 16.
Dates and performers for other Williamsburg Waterfront concerts have not yet been announced. But the Brooklyn Vegan blog noted that a s series of eight free shows are planned.
“The benefit shows will help fund the restoration and preservation of parks in North Brooklyn, and subsidize the cost of free concerts at the Williamsburg Waterfront,” Stephanie Thayer, OSA’s Executive Director said in a statement. “As nearby McCarren Park Pool is being renovated, OSA is pleased to continue its tradition of bringing outdoor music to North Brooklyn.”
The Williamsburg Waterfront is located at North 8th Street & Kent Avenue on the East River in Brooklyn.
Schedules have not yet been announced for Brooklyn’s other free summer concert series, including the Seaside Summer Concert Series and Martin Luther King Jr. Concert Series. The schedule for Celebrate Brooklyn in Prospect Park will be announced May 4, according to the website for BRIC Performing Arts. The Siren Festival has set its 2010 date for July 17.
Image source: “King For a Day” album cover from the Faith No More store.
Earlier: NYC’s (mostly free) summer concerts and film series
Today I wanted to tip you off to a great new find: Truck Furniture from Japan. While not available in the US yet, the buzz has already started. I heard about Truck from Paul Gelinas yesterday at breakfast. Paul, who started Lost & Found i…
Save yourself at least a couple hundred dollars off DWR’s retail price by picking up these white Cubit shelves from this seller in Soho. Please note that the set is one with twelve cubes, not eight as shown in the photo.Read Full Post
Village Voice entertainment columnist Michael Musto has been riding a bike in New York City for more than 25 years, long before it was fashionable or we had bike lanes and cycletracks.
Musto has never had a driver’s license, and he tells us the bicycle is an advantage in his [...]
The wait for bicycle directions on Google Maps has finally ended as the company announced a beta version of its new bicycle directions feature at the League of American Bicyclists National Bike Summit in Washington, D.C. this morning. The new mapping software includes an elegant overlay of bicycle routes based on priority bicycle streets and [...]
Well over a hundred people filled the auditorium of the Saint Thomas Aquinas Church last week for a forum on the future of Brooklyn’s Fourth Avenue put on by the Park Slope Civic Council. The stretch of Fourth Avenue on the western edge of Park Slope saw a wave of residential construction after a 2003 [...]
