Big story coming from Paul Vitello at The Times, which you will likely be hearing a lot about in the months ahead.
This one's for Cookie.
The Wildcat is taking the NFL by storm (see Exhibit A: Miami Dolphins, Monday Night Football), and this got me thinking, there must be a political equivalent for using multiple quarterbacks in one game to run the offense. Let's take a vote:
1. Vito Lopez running two city council campaigns simultaneously.
2. The Broadway Triangle Community Coalition's roundtable of spokespersons.
3. The Working Families Party running a spread offense in the Public Advocate, Comptroller, and multiple Council campaigns.
4. Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn and Brooklyn Speaks' twin lawsuits against the state.
5. The multi-dimensional leadership hydra comin' out of Neighbors Allied for Good Growth.
6. The way Steve Witt shifts from multiple conversations while also eating a sandwich and checking amazon sales for his book, American Moses.
City Hall News has two long pieces this morning to pay attention to. One is the Making of John Liu (Liu York City), particularly the formation of a new minority coalition, how ad man Jimmy Siegal came on board, and what it may mean for facing off against Mayor Bloomberg, if he is reelected this November.
emphasize all the wrong parts of your body.
I have a lot more to say about it (and I may be running an event in it), but let's take a look at two pieces in the Times that touch why this festival is occurring. There's the curator Style feature that looks at the changing use of the word and the phenomenon of the pop-up gallery which have occurred in Bushwick, Williamsburg and DUMBO unsurprisingly. Also, the Greenpoint Gazette's Juliet Linderman has a longer site-specific piece about Castle Braid and the use of condo rentals for art space.
Newtown Creek coverage is picking up with a WGNewsArts story on the Newtown Creek Health and Harm Narratives with Laura Hofmann, an EPA briefing in Nydia Velazquez's office, BushwickBK's Diego Cupolo and Mike Heimbinder tour some polluted sites along Newtown Creek, and Gothamist's Jake Dobkin visits Open House New York's tour of the Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant along with everyone else on Sunday. Meanwhile, the Mayor came to the Gowanus to discuss a cleanup plan for the Canal, which Greenpoint environmental advocates are closely watching.
great farmers and same great food. This market will continue to run every Saturday, 8am-4pm, year-round, with a mouth watering selection local fruits and vegetables, grass-fed meat and poultry, wild-caught fish, fresh cut flowers, honey, baked goods, artisanal cheese, dairy and more!Politics and Development. Development and Politics. It's like Love and Marriage here in Bushwick. Literally. Two articles for you to sift through this Thursday. Ben Muessig at the Brooklyn Paper looks at Marty Markowitz and Vito Lopez backing non-Democrats in the general election. An excerpt:
Meanwhile in Bushwick, Dems claim that Lopez’s feud with his one-time protégé Reyna over 
the city’s controversial, Lopez-backed plan to allow residential development in the so-called Broadway Triangle played a role in his decision to endorse Davila on the Working Families line.
“It’s not the way it should be,” said Democratic District Leader Alan Fleishman. “We had a Democratic primary [and] he ran a candidate against the councilmember. His candidate lost. Now we have a Democratic nominee. He’s the head of the Democratic Party. He should be supporting that nominee.”
Meanwhile, Matt Chaban, who has been tracking the Broadway Triangle for Architect's 
Newspaper, has a long piece on the ins and outs of the process to develop the stalled industrial site. The City Planning Commission is putting its decision out on the Broadway Triangle any day now (it should have been yesterday), and Council is expected to take up the rezoning in late October/ early November. Oh, and if a new plan from developer Read Property Group eventually goes through, add 947 apartments and townhouses in Bushwick near the Rheingold Gardens Apartments complex. Love and Marriage.
announced a friendly wager on the American League Division Series between the Yankees and the Twins. If the Yankees win, Mayor Ryback will send Mayor Bloomberg a bushel of Honeycrisp apples and a case of beer from the Surly Brewing Company. If the Twins win, Mayor Bloomberg will send Mayor Ryback an assortment of urban produce from the New York Botanical Garden and its Bronx community garden partners and a case of Brooklyn Lager. Every additional playoff game at Yankee Stadium pumps $5.7 million into the local economy and has a total economic impact of $11.9 million, according to New York City Economic Development Corporation.
Councilmember Lew Fidler (D-Marine Park), right, and Gene Berardelli (his Republican Council opponent) don't like each other that much. Fortunately, unlike other political rivalries, this one is actually fun for the rest of us. The latest incarnation is a game developed by Friends of Gene Berardeli (and a website called Faceinhole.com) called Whack-A-Lew! It's like Whack-a-mole: 
Workers Union on the anniversary of the term limits vote, and he even opened a new office in Williamsburg on Lorimer and Maujer Street. It was a circus. I asked a supporter why open an office in Williamsburg. The campaign website after all lists the Bushwick Democratic Club as a satellite office for the mayoral candidate. 
