In Struggling Economy, Community Boards Open To Compromise

One Brooklyn Community Board 6 member explains the difference between “stripping” and “burlesque”:

Community Board 6’s Public Safety Committee voted unanimously to recommend a liquor license for Dave Ruggiero and the Paris Burlesque Club that he plans to open this spring on Commerce Street.

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“This is as reasonable as an establishment like this can be.”

Her Name Was Written On Her Coat, Her Life Was A Miserable Anecdote

Why it’s a growler from the chainstore:

One corner of the Duane Reade store on Bedford Avenue in the Williamsburg neighborhood has Fire Island Lighthouse Ale and eight other beers on tap, with growlers — refillable glass bottles — lining the walls. Uniformed clerks-cum-beer-experts fill the growlers and conduct tastings only — sorry, no pints served. Behind a bar, a large walk-in refrigerator stocks common national brands as well as local, craft and imported beers. “We knew we would have a little bit of a battle to try to bring Duane Reade into this community, because they really don’t like a chain store,” said Paul Tiberio, senior vice president for merchandising and marketing at the company.

The Williamsburg beer bar is part of a larger effort by Duane Reade to recognize — and capitalize — on the fierce identity and local needs of many New York City neighborhoods.

What’s 700 Square Feet When You Can Basically Do Whatever You Want?

Earlier, the Post found an Atlantic Yard refugee who had been holding out without anyone knowing it. Now the attorney who led the charge against the Atlantic Yards project identified a condemned strip of land that hasn’t actually been condemned yet:

A piece of property about the size of a standard one-bedroom apartment in the footprint of the Atlantic Yards site was never officially condemned, says attorney Matthew Brinckheroff in an action filed in Kings County Supreme Court on behalf of the property’s owner.

Peter Williams Enterprises Inc., a company owned by Peter Williams, filed the lawsuit seeking a declaration of the ownership of a tax lot at 24 Sixth Ave., which includes a roughly 700-square-foot thin strip of land behind a former condominium, as well an above-grade parcel on top of that same building.

Location Scout: Atlantic Yards.

Taking The Business Concept Of The “Nationwide Search” To The Next Level

I didn’t realize that’s how it worked in the Bloomberg era:

Stephen Goldsmith, a former Indianapolis mayor and Manhattan Institute bigwig, is expected to replace outgoing Deputy Mayor Ed Skyler — a move that could position the City Hall newcomer to run for the top job down the road.

Maybe Harold Ford, Jr. was on to something after all.

Rage Against The Eminent Domain Machine

Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me. And now you do what they told ya:

For the past six years, Daniel Goldstein has been at the center of just about every rally, house party, concert and lawsuit opposed to the $4.9 billion Atlantic Yards project near Downtown Brooklyn.

He wielded a bullhorn and had a lightning-fast e-mail response to every incursion by the developer Bruce C. Ratner on the 22-acre project site at Atlantic and Flatbush Avenues. As the project advanced, and every one his neighbors abandoned his building on Pacific Street, Mr. Goldstein remained with his wife and child, vowing never to be dislodged from their seventh-floor condominium.

But on Wednesday afternoon, Mr. Goldstein, the last residential holdout in Mr. Ratner’s way, agreed to walk away from his apartment by May 7 for $3 million. Mr. Goldstein, 40, also agreed to step down as spokesman for Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn, the main group opposing Atlantic Yards. And he said he would withdraw from any litigation and not “actively oppose the project,” although he said he held on to his First Amendment rights.

Here’s Goldstein’s statement: “My home was seized by the government to give to a private developer.”

Location Scout: Atlantic Yards.