The News | 7.30.10
The extreme heat is taking a toll on city streets. The Ninth Street Bridge, a drawbridge that crosses over the Gowanus Canal, no longer closes flush with the pavement, and city officials are blaming heat expansion. According to the Brooklyn Paper, city workers installed pieces of wood to function as ramps to get cyclists and drivers over the hump on the eastern side of the span.
The Associate Press filed a travel story on DUMBO, calling it an "offbeat Brooklyn neighborhood worth a visit," and highlighting the streetscapes as "gritty and majestic, chaotic and charming. Every corner reveals a visual urban jazz that is uniquely New York."
Yesterday afternoon, hundreds of protesters marched across the Brooklyn Bridge in a rally against Arizona's immigration law. A federal judge blocked the most controversial parts of the law, but marchers saw a potential ripple effect. City Room reported that few found comfort in the preliminary injunction that was issued by the Obama administration which challenged the law.
City Council approved the hotly debated Domino Sugar development, which will bring 2200 new apartments to the North Brooklyn waterfront. The Real Deal says that the council voted unanimously to approve changes in the zoning law that would allow the project to move forward after nearly six years of planning, hearings and delays.
The Starlight Lounge, one of the borough's oldest gay bars and possibly the first black-owned gay bar in Brooklyn, is set to close its doors forever this weekend. According to Brownstoner, the Crown Heights staple has been struggling since it came under new ownership last December.
