“With our administration not beholden to special interests, we now have the freedom to take on obstacles looming and to begin clearing them away,” he fairly gloated.īloomberg’s goals would pursue indisputably good things: get everybody within a ten-minute walk of a park, cut greenhouse-gas emissions by 30 percent, make 90 percent of the city’s waterways clean enough for recreation, improve all sewers, and invest in regional mass transit to keep travel times stable. He noted that city planners expect 900,000 more residents here by 2030. Today Bloomberg wants to balance rising population against rising sea levels. Gone is the Bloomberg of December 2001, who chased quick economic fixes, like football stadiums and Olympics. Proving that six years of prosperity can get a mayor thinking of posterity, Mayor Bloomberg announced ambitious environmental goals this morning in a speech at Flushing Meadow. īloomberg’s Agenda Anything But Lame Duck Williamsburg: In an effort to dissuade those thinking of leaving Brooklyn for greener (cleaner) pastures out west and elsewhere, one blogger has compiled this list of some of the hood’s best dishes. West Village: The green-tea cupcake Josh DeChellis serves at BarFry is not only intensely and deliciously flavored, it’s also ” a study in green: the kind of snack a stay at home Incredible Hulk would send off to the school bus in dozens if his kid were having an in-class birthday party.” Upper West Side: Thankfully, the old-school Murray’s Sturgeon Shop holds a long-term lease because the neighborhood’s “soul currently hangs on the continued existence of a few shops, among them Zabar’s, Fairway, Citarella, H&H Bagels, Barney Greengrass, Gryphon Book Store and Murray’s.” Midtown West: The Royalton hotel has reopened after a brief renovation and has already started serving breakfast at Bar Forty Four. Meatpacking District: Next Tuesday is Dirty Bingo night at Paradou. Ĭlinton Hill: Two armed men robbed the White Castle at 531 Myrtle Avenue yesterday. For fun, she makes mediocre pottery featuring unloved architecture, travels to places she couldn't previously locate on a map, forges medieval tools (badly), and runs a free repair clinic.Reasons to Stay in Williamsburg Green-Tea Cupcake in West Village Battery Park: The Treats Truck will be on hand at CultureFest NYC on Saturday from noon to 4 p.m. Bruni holds a MS in Historic Preservation from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA from Loyola University Chicago in English (Writing/Poetry). She has also been a part of hands-on disaster relief projects, most often in New Orleans. EPA to plan preservation-focused symposia, creating Environmental Justice Reports, and working in the salvage and reuse industry. Her work with housing organizations and community groups has culminated in the creation of local history and home maintenance publications, hands-on workshops, and several historic districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places.īruni's environmental work has involved working with the U.S. Bruni has published numerous articles, led workshops, and created blogs focused on the changing face of historic preservation, the need for increased diversity across the movement, and the ways in which cultural resources are crucial to our environmental and social wellbeing. Carla Bruni is a preservation and sustainability consultant specializing in community engagement and resiliency.
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