From neighbor to neighbor: we appreciate you! @DowntownBklyn has been donating meals from local businesses to our staff. The @NYPD84Pct helped deliver sandwiches from @tonylukes and @NYPDCommAffairs delivered food from Pollo D'Oro.
The rising rents in Brooklyn are taking a major toll on our mom-and-pops. Places go out of business because of the cost of retail space. Let’s create affordable commercial spaces to support our local financial and cultural economy https://t.co/LLGS2dM54V
“#Brooklyn is crawling with magazine people, so they’re happy,” said Sid Holt, chief of @ASME1963 about the Nat'l Mag Awards coming to BK, along with lots of other stellar events
https://t.co/YjIhQvGWWE
cc @BrooklynChamber@1hotelbb@barclayscenter@DowntownBklyn @MichaelRStahl
ICYMI: Last week, we hosted our first #MakeItinBK meetup of the year @HanksSaloon with a conversation w/ local venture capitalist @JJ_Kasper - via @thebridgebk https://t.co/sUevuAK38g
Working on the railroad in #Brooklyn: how a program called #FreightNYC could move more goods on rails and help unclog the highways, @ckpolansky reports.
https://t.co/k4wN0fpJ1w
cc @NYCEDC@RegionalPlan@BklynEagle
Apartments at Greenpoint's One Blue Slip have been leasing faster than projected — to “people without any connection to Amazon,” the developer's spokesperson said. https://t.co/2VAu4x9Kdv
Amazon’s abrupt decision to pull out makes clear that what we've been saying has been true all along: Amazon is not interested in NYC’s version of the social compact. They want to make all the rules. That is not the kind of partner NYC needs. My statement: https://t.co/i7OJFOSNoe