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Third Term for NYC Mayors Is Not a Charm

January 29, 2011 By WG News + Arts Leave a Comment

The day Mayor Bloomberg began his third term, he said, “Conventional wisdom holds that by a third term, mayors run out of energy and ideas. But we have proved the conventional wisdom wrong time and again, and I promise you, we will do it once more.”

But now that Bloomberg is one year into his third term he might want to rethink that statement. The year began with reports that he directed $51 million in public and personal subsidies into a museum project led by Democratic mayoral rival Bill Thompson’s wife, dumping $2 million of additional city funding into it in the middle of the mayoral campaign.

Then it was disclosed that for the second year in a row, the mayor had quietly pumped more than $1 million into the state’s Independent Party without disclosing it as part of his own campaign spending. The party promptly turned around and gave $750,000 of the money to a shell company associated with key Bloomberg operatives.

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July 6 NAG ACTION

July 1, 2010 By WG News + Arts Leave a Comment

… and other upcoming events  PUBLIC NOTICE FROM NAG:

Our next NAG ACTION! meeting is coming up on Tues, July 6, and this month we will be focusing on “Why Shop Local?”  In the last few years, our neighborhood has seen an influx of chain stores and the loss of some beloved local businesses.  At the same time, many new, small entrepreneurs are moving in to North Brooklyn.  This meeting will address the benefits of supporting local businesses, and provide a forum for strategizing about how to keep our local businesses going strong in a struggling economy.  Lacey Tauber will present case studies and policy strategies from the Pratt Center for Community Development, Caitlin Dourmashkin of EWVIDCO will discuss the Northside Merchants Association, many local business owners will be on-hand, and we’ll even hear about a new effort to start a local currency for North Brooklyn and Bushwick.  Join us!

What: NAG ACTION!: Why Shop Local?
When: Tuesday, July 6, 7pm
Where: The Woods backyard, 48 S. 4th St. between Kent and WytheNAG at SCHOOL OF THE FUTURE READ MORE

Op/Ed: Williamsburg Walks … All Over Us

March 22, 2010 By WG News + Arts Leave a Comment

One Festival Day, Not Six, Could Bring Relief

The idea for a community-run festival celebrating Williamsburg’s unique character is a good one; but the Bedford Avenue commercial corridor is already too saturated with crowds, noise, street peddlers, and sanitation issues to withstand the present six-event schedule of Williamsburg Walks (WW) and the thousands of visitors it attracts.

Nominally a city-sponsored event, loosely supported by various profit and non-profit partners, WW’s coordination has over the past three years fallen increasingly into the hands of Neighbors Allied for Good Growth (NAG), a grassroots advocacy organization that has led the community in challenging environmental hazards, developers, and the city’s rezoning process. NAG, unfortunately, appears to have inherited the undemocratic management style that has characterized WW from the start; in its role as coordinator, it has also begun to hear complaints from residents and merchants that the annual six-time summer street fair is excessive.

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The Knitting Factory Arrives in Williamsburg

December 8, 2009 By Ethan Pettit Leave a Comment

Once an eccentric backwater of the downtown music scene, Williamsburg receives the movement’s first mothership.

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The Knitting Factory has been at its new location on Metropolitan Avenue and Havemeyer Street for all of three months. And this indeed is a nice little bow tie on the loopy tale of two of the city’s most enigmatic art scenes of the past twenty years—downtown music and Williamsburg.

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Avella/Thompson Face Off in 1st Public Debate

August 27, 2009 By Mike Dang Leave a Comment

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The night started off sweet, with Democratic mayoral contenders Tony Avella (left) and Bill Thompson (right) paying their respects to Sen. Ted Kennedy, whose passing swept the news in the morning. Then the gloves came off, and both candidates went swinging, their attacks landing not on each other, but on Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

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