The News | 6.22.10

It's officially summer! New York is constantly buzzing with street fairs, but one group wants to re-imagine this popular activity. According to the Brooklyn Eagle, the Center for an Urban Future wants to create more street fairs that focus on the diverse ethnic groups and cultures living in New York with ideas like a Mexican fair in Sunset Park and a Turkish fair in Midwood.

The New York Post has the scoop on a plan to redevelop DUMBO’s Pearl Street Triangle. The plan would convert the popular location into an event space with amphitheater-like spaces that showcase the arch beneath the Manhattan Bridge and honor the area’s industrial past. Check out the plan details here.

Everyone knows that Williamsburg is full of hipsters, but developers are starting to look to the group as marketing material. One prospective buyer told the New York Observer, "We like the hipsters." According to the paper, "It's the residents, and not much else, that make north Williamsburg a desirable (or undesirable) community."

In other Williamsburg development news, Councilman Steve Levin is leading the crusade against the Domino Sugar redevelopment. “People have concerns about the height, the density, the transportation negative impacts and open space negative impacts that this project will have,” Levin told the Brooklyn Paper.

We watched Sticky the Prospect Park goose run around with an arrow through his neck for days. We can finally stop worry about the bird's welfare: City Room reports that the bird appears to had shed the arrow all on its own.

Photo credit: Brooklyn Paper