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Alpha One Labs, hackersphere on Meeker
By Marianne Do
The main meeting space of Alpha One Labs looks like a mash-up of a physics classroom and a garage. A whiteboard wall is covered in frighteningly complicated math equations. Cables dangle over tall shelves of computer gear. Objects retrieved from the street sit on a table, ready for fixing: a vending machine money slot, a broken iPod dock. People sit with laptops open and argue over Java versus C# programming. Conversations containing the phrases “bash script” and “micro-controller” can be heard over the rhythmic thumping of electronic music from mounted speakers.
Alpha One Labs is a hackerspace—a collaborative techno-centric workspace where members pay a small monthly fee for access to the space, equipment, classes, and the collective knowledge of other geek-minded members. “They’re mostly software developers,” explained Sean Auriti, 33, the co-founder of Alpha One Labs. “Coming here, they get to tinker with things.”
Luxeye Optical Stocks Vintage Frames
By Arnaud Aubry
Ever feel like Dr. No on a TV re-run of a bi-focaled scientist from outer-space? No harm in trying on a new look, but without changing your whole life. The place to let your imagination run wild is Jenny Ma’s nine-month-old store on Bedford Avenue. It’s a stylish place that caters to young professionals between 21 and 45.
“Most of our clients are artists, band players, tattoo artists,” says Ma. More or less, all of them live in the neighborhood. Ma explains the kind of clientele she has by the originality of her boutique. “A lot of ar-tists have a unique taste, and they come to Luxeye because we have a good selection of eyewear.” Luxeye even carries rare and hard to find vintage frames dating back 20 years.
19 Questions: The New Loft Law
By Jim Fleming
On June 21, 2010, the Loft Law (Article 7-C of the New York State Multiple Dwelling Law) was amended and now protects residential tenants in many commercial buildings in Williamsburg, Greenpoint, Bushwick, and other areas of the city. Passage of the 2010 Loft Law amendments was supported by a number of local politicians, notably New York State Assembly members Joe Lentol and Vito Lopez, who tried valiantly for decades to get similar legis-lation passed the now-disgraced felon and former Senate Republican leader Joseph Bruno. Democrat State Senator Martin Malave Dilan led the successful effort in that chamber this year, in a close, party-line vote. Mayor Bloomberg’s commercial-developer lackeys engineered an eleventh-hour bid to get Governor Paterson to quash it, but succeeded only in winning exceptions for some “industrial business zones.”
To learn more about the 2010 Loft Law amendments, I interviewed Margaret Sandercock, a partner in the Manhattan law firm Goodfarb & Sandercock, LLP, who often represents loft tenants on housing issues (full disclosure: including my own tenants’ association). I asked her the following questions:
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