1.4-1.8|This Week in Brooklyn
01.04 | Monday
Starting Monday, Curb Your Christmas Tree… For Composting (Pardon Me For Asking)
NYT Public Editor Focuses on Freelancers, Continues to Ignore the Times’s Lapses Covering Atlantic Yards (Atlantic Yards Report)
MTA Debuts Bus Partitions to Protect Drivers (Gothamist)
As Brooklyn NBA Arena Project Moves Ahead, Hopes Dim for Neighborhood Holdouts (No Land Grab)
Murder in Williamsburg Pool Hall (Gothamist)
Whole Foods to Begin Brownfield Cleanup at Third and Third (The Carroll Gardens Diary)
01.05 | Tuesday
Freddy’s Faithful Vow to Fight Brooklyn Bar’s Ouster for Atlantic Yards Land Grab with Chains, Cuffs (NY Daily News)
LPC Approves Berkeley Carroll Expansion Plans (Brownstoner)
The Domino Does Not Fall as City Begins Review of $1.2B Project (Brooklyn Paper)
Lawsuit Looms at Albee Square in Downtown Brooklyn (Brooklyn Eagle)
The Look Ahead for 2010: The Final Endgame and, Likely, a Very Changed Landscape (Atlantic Yards Report)
01.06 | Wednesday
Brooklyn’s Top 10 Stories of the Decade (NY Post)
Atlantic Yards Revisionism and the Belated LIRR Pavilion at Atlantic Terminal (Atlantic Yards Report)
Myths & Barricades: Grand Opening of the Atlantic Terminal Entrance (No Land Grab)
New LIRR Terminal is a Monument to Fear and Paranoia (Brooklyn Paper)
Hopes Fading for Brooklyn’s Very Own Whole Foods on the Banks of the Gowanus Canal (NY Daily News)
01.07 | Thursday
At Hearing, ESDC Representatives Defend Use of Consultant AKRF (Atlantic Yards Report)
The State of Brooklyn Rentals (Brownstoner)
The Journalism of Verification: FCR’s Statement that it’s not a Target in Yonkers Goes Mostly Unquestioned (The Atlantic Yards Report)
When it Comes to Details of the Barclays Naming-Rights Deal, the Times Plays "He Said, She Said" (No Land Grab)
School Bus was in Reverse When it Killed Cyclist in LES (Gothamist)
01.08 | Friday
Domenic Recchia Named City Council Finance Chair (NY Post)
Superstunned! City Backs Fed Clean-Up of Newtown Creek (Brooklyn Paper)
Deal Made to Monitor Brooklyn Hospital (NYT)
At Senate Hearing on Eminent Domain Reform, Forceful Criticism of the Status Quo and the ESDC’s Answers, But Reform Won’t Happen Overnight (Atlantic Yards Report)
Norah Jones Cuts Back on Her Windows (Brownstoner)
