Carroll Gardens
Red Hook restaurateurs throw a party to banish the question of post-Sandy survival
Equipment ruined, power out and basements flooded, the only thing to do with all the food was to hold a major barbecue for the neighbors. Today, the assessments begin. More
Inside operator mum on a lucrative Brooklyn shelter deal, no matter who's asking
For weeks, as controversy has built over a highly expedited and ethically problematic city deal to award a contract to operate a homeless shelter in Carroll Gardens, two questions have loomed over the project. More
(17)Hidden in a Carroll Gardens shelter project, an owner with 'terror' on his resume
Documents on file with the city show that the building slated to house a 170-bed homeless shelter in Carroll Gardens was constructed—and may still be owned—by a convicted felon whose crimes involved abusing the poor for personal gain. More
(4)The controversial landlord behind a mystery-shrouded Carroll Gardens shelter project
For more than a decade, he’s been one of the most active—and controversial—players in the industry surrounding the provision of beds to society’s most needy. More
(12)A new Carroll Gardens homeless shelter built on old relationships
Last week, Lander learned about part of it: a 170-bed homeless shelter, which could open within weeks, right in his district. More
(8)In two meetings, one of them quite heated, neighborhoods confront the half-billion dollar Gowanus Canal cleanup
The sediment is full of harmful polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and non-aqueous phase liquid (NAPL) left behind by local industries, which would be dredged.
Well, they had explained it before in a 550-page document called a "feasibility study" released last month. But that explanation, especially with its environmental safety implications and near half-billion-dollar price-tag, needed explaining. More
(1)Buddy Scotto, on the ramparts of Carroll Gardens
As Carroll Gardens becomes home to one of Brooklyn’s yuppiest Restaurant Rows, a sort-of Division II Manhattan for recent college graduates and a single-family brownstone dream for magazine editors and downtown types, it’s perhaps unsurprising that, finally, the Scotto family power-base is thinning out. More
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