Once a week, we highlight GL’s reader comments. Here’s a selection of some of them from the last seven days: Radiac Redux: Fun with Low Level Radiation in Williamsburg. “I would still think that a 10-day holding period still poses a danger to the area. I won’t be totally relieved until it’s completely shut down […]

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Once a week, we highlight GL’s reader comments. Here’s a selection of some of them from the last seven days: Sad Anniversary: A Year After the Greenpoint Terminal Market Fire. “Yes, it was the biggest NYC fire in ten years (excepting 9/11), and yes, the hobo they framed got off without punishment, but anybody who […]

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Blight Me: Is Developer Blight a New Brooklyn Tactic? “What was done in Edgemere and neighboring Arverne was criminal. For many, many years there were thriving summer bungalow colonies on the beach blocks of Rockaway stretching from the Beach 60s to the Beach 40s which were torn down for the supposed ‘development’ in the mid-1960s.” […]

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“On the Sofa” is a new, regular feature wherein we highlight some of the more interesting comments–positive, negative or neither–that GL has gotten: Red Hook “Until Recently Wasn’t a Neighborhood”? Really? “It’s simply missing a comma. Should be: ‘Until recently, Red Hook wasn’t a neighborhood, much less dining, destination.’…’Red Hook wasn’t a neighborhood destination.’ AND […]

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