A Brief News Round-Up for a Cloudy Tuesday Morning
East & Creek, the Greenpoint newsletter | No. 45
What’s up in Greenpoint?
Not too much, apparently!
A new plant shop emerges from its plant truck chrysalis: In the newly opened Arid Room at Tula Plant and Design (59 Meserole Ave), rare cacti and succulents suck up the abundant sunlight from the south-facing windows. The expansion of the plant shop is a natural progression for owners Christan Summers and Ivan Martinez who started selling plants from a Tula-branded truck in 2016, before preparing and opening their Greenpoint retail space while having their first baby a few years later. (Greenpointers)
Greenpoint residents interested in their new library, set to open later this year, may want to attend a meeting of the Greenpoint Library Community Advisory Committee Meeting, scheduled for Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. at Anella. And Newtown Creek–area residents interested in the health of their creek may want to pencil in a meeting next Wednesday of the Newtown Creek Superfund Site Community Advisory Group.
And finally, DOB records show that the owners of a one-story parking building at 217 Franklin St. plan to replace the existing structure with a six-story residential building.
Meanwhile in New York City…
New York City has only ever had men as mayors. Could that change in 2021?: “As the top tier of 2021 New York City mayoral candidates begins to solidify – among them two borough presidents, the New York City comptroller and City Council speaker – one commonality is obvious: They’re all men.” (City and State’s Emma Whitford)
MTA to find the money for 500 new cops — but won’t have to scrimp for body cameras: “The city completed its rollout of body cameras on all uniformed patrol officers earlier this year, but hundreds of new cops deployed by Governor Andrew Cuomo to stop fare evasion and homelessness in the city's subway system will not be required to wear the devices.” (Gothamist’s Jake Offenhartz)
Bernie spoke at 2020’s largest rally last weekend in Queensbridge Park. His campaign dropped the ball on outreach to Queensbridge residents: “As Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders and his supporters flocked to Queensbridge Park for a campaign rally Saturday, residents who live across the street in Queensbridge Houses — the nation's largest public housing project — were in their monthly tenant association meeting. No one had told them about the Sanders rally, they said. April Simpson, president of the Queensbridge Tenants Association, said she got a call from the Sanders campaign only the day before to inform her about the rally and ask if she was attending.” (Patch’s Maya Kaufman)
Which one of you did this: A G train suffered a minor delay in Brooklyn on Sunday evening when a young man dropped his skateboard onto the track bed. The skateboard tripped the northbound G train’s emergency brakes at the Bedford-Nostrand stop in Bedford-Stuyvesant at around 8:50 p.m. It took five minutes for MTA workers and the train crew to recover the board and get the train moving again. The skateboard was returned to its owner broken in two. ‘Sorry, guys,’ the board’s owner told a car full of frustrated passengers.” (Daily News’ Clayton Guse)
Thus concludes this October 22, 2019 edition of East & Creek, the twice-weekly newsletter about Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Read the full archives here.
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Jon Hanrahan
Author, e&c