Rumblings & Bumblings Responses: Miss Ya, Marble; Gourmet's Goodbye; Library 101

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Enough of the stupid-ass "Billyburg" (or whatever other stupid name people call Williamsburg) articles. Williamsburg is for smucks.

Can this site please focus Manhattan and not these outer-bourough wannabe-NYC shit-fests?

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The word is Schmucks,smuck(ers) is a jam jelly company.

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A major document has just been posted to the library's internal staff web site. It begins to address many issues in the reorganization plan. While it isn't specific about the sale of these buildings it states that they cannot answer the rumors about the "changes in facilities" until they speak with key funders. A reliable source claims the air rights to Donnell (20 W 53 St) have been sold and the first two floors will be kept for library use. New Yorkers--if you love your circulating libraries, small and large--don't sit still for this. The Research Library is a gorgeous, hungry beast.

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williamsburg is completely transforming which is why so much is written about it. um, duh.

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I guess no one cares about a huge building at 444 graham because -- hey -- what difference does it make when we've already got two 12-storey finger buildings fucking the neighborhood just one block away on Humboldt? I understand why the neighborhood can't stay exactly as it ever was, but COME ON. This is a developmental fuckfest.

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If you've walked around williamsburg lately, you'd know why it ends up on curbed. No exaggeration -- they are tearing down and rebuilding an entire section of the city. It's pretty interesting, even if the results are hideous.

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If they build a new building and allocate space for a library on the lower floors, that's good. I think this was done at the branch behind Lincoln Center on Amsterdam Ave. We can always use new library facilities. I find the existing facilities (with some exceptions) to be pretty cruddy.

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12-story buildings! Oh noes! What is the world coming to??????????

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Eryximachus, a 12-storey building actually does suck when the surrounding neighborhood is all 2- and 3-storeys full of people who have lived in this neighborhood for decades (have you seen all the old people over here?). I'm not saying it's the second coming of Hitler or anything, I'm saying it sucks for a lot of people -- and it's another example of the D.O.B. ignoring their responsibility to uphold the zoning laws, because these specific projects look to be illegal based on the F.A.R. and the zoning of the specific plots. If you don't want to hear about real estate fuckovers, then why are you reading this blog?