Liquor laws are a strange and Byzantine system of regulations and stipulations that are written in blood, bound in leather, disguised as a horcrux and buried deep in a cavern below the East River that is only accessible to the liquor board’s highly tra... »
Image: Sam Schwartz Engineering Sam Schwartz’s proposal to collect a half-a-buck per bicycle entry on bridges to the Manhattan Central Business District is putting New York cyclists in a bind. Cyclists, like drivers, don’t relish paying for something t... »
Since I launched Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, a lot of people have asked me why I put the fund in Brooklyn. Even to those who said it was "obvious", all of them seem to have different reasons why they believe that was a good idea. To me, there are a coup... »
Nice gams. Park Slope's St. Patrick's Day parade 2009. If the news of this Grand Street Pub Crawl on Saturday whet your appetite for home field drinking this weekend, here are a few more spots that won’t require crossing the East River to get your sham... »
Here’s the second installment to the Strong Place Construction Blog, a series following Brennan Realty Services and their team through the development of three townhouses in Cobble Hill, at the corner of Kane and Strong Place. Today Brennan Realty post... »
Gridlock Sam's plan chops $5 off the roundtrip E-ZPass price of major MTA bridges and sets the E-ZPass price for East River crossings at a uniform $5 each way. New York City is coming up on the four year anniversary of a moment that will live in infamy... »
See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Kate BriqueletThe Brooklyn PaperBrooklyn Bridge Park is going to make a big splash this summer. Park officials announced they’re bringing a temporary pool to Pier 2 — giving frolicking kids and water-loving Brookl... »
See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Will BreddermanThe Brooklyn PaperPut on your beer glasses, and join the exodus into the most literary borough of them all. The Litcrawl on May 19 — held at 13 different Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, and Brooklyn H... »
