The City’s land use process is the subject of discussion at tomorrow’s one’-day conference at the Municipal Arts Society, a non-profit organization that fights for intelligent planning and preservation.

The conference, “Land Use and Local Voices: Is the City’s Land Use Process in Need of Reform,” is based on the idea that intelligent urban planning starts with intelligent conversation. The program will shed light on the city’s land use process and examine whether, and how, it should be improved. The conference is co-sponsored by Municipal Art Society and Manhattan Community Board 1.

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Yesterday I met with a small group of incoming freshmen at the brand new Frank McCourt High School on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, to talk about blogging. As you can imagine it was a lot of fun.

For the past four weeks, the kids have been studying different forms of media and meeting with various journalists and communications specialists. At the end of the course, the brainchild of veteran journalist Leslie Seifert, they will write a report recommending the kind of student-driven news network that they determine will best serve their school community. “That will become a roadmap for beginning to create this news network,” Seifert told me in an email.

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Bed-Stuy sounds: The Path of Least Resistance: Bed-Stuy Blog

Kedem Windery soundstage: Bklyn 11211

Meet Dorothy the educator: Bushwick BK

Apples to apples to your local bodega: Free Williamsburg

Free bankruptcy services: Sheepshead Bites

Self-indulgence 2010: NY Shitty

Shooting at Heatwave BBQ: Effed in Park Slope

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Integrate 21st century security concerns into land use decision-making: Atlantic Yards Report

Cable reconstruction on Manhattan Bridge: Brooklyn Paper

Schumer has 24 million in campaign cash: Wall Street Journal

Mayor says $500 can be saved without harming services: NY Times

Second and third thoughts on Prospect Park geese: NY Times

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I wasn’t able to attend Saturday night’s vigil for the geese killed in Prospect Park. But according to various reports, there were more than 100 people there joined by some local politicians. Many urged a citizens’ campaign to get the city and the United States Department of Agriculture to rethink its policy about the killings of geese. State Senator Eric Adams spoke to the crowd…

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Why are New Yorkers healthier & less obese than denizens
of Real America?  They’re walkers.  And why do they walk?
They don’t drive–they have the subway…

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There’s always something new to know about social networking especially when it comes to promoting your business and your brand. That’s why the Park Slope Fifth Avenue Business Improvement District is hosting a free social networking/media training on Wednesday, July 21st at 9:30 AM at Aunt Suzie’s restaurant (247 Fifth Avenue), where you can learn how to use Facebook, Twitter, Yelp and even YouTube to help promote your small business or cause…

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Yesterday was our 21st wedding anniversary. Here we are underneath the KFC New Doublicious Combo sign on Fourth Avenue. The picture was Hugh’s idea.

The iFix

“Carping from digital slobs.“

New York State Senator Eric Adams will join  residents and animal activists in Prospect Park at tonight’s vigil in Prospect Park at 6:30PM at the gazebo on Prospect Park lake (near the entrance at Prospect Park Southwest and Vanderbilt Street in Prospect Park)  condemning the gassing death of over 250 Canadian geese in Prospect Park on July 8. I am sure he is not the only politician who will be on hand Saturday night. In a press release, Adams suggests that citizens write their federal representatives if they are outraged about the slaughter…

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This evening (Saturday, July 17) at  6:30PM there will be a vigil for the geese at the gazebo on Prospect Park lake (near the entrance at Prospect Park Southwest and Vanderbilt Street in Prospect Park). If the group cannot get a permit, the vigil will take place on the street outside the park on Prospect Park Southwest and Vanderbilt Street. Check the “For the Love of the Geese in Prospect Park” Facebook page for info.

In lieu of speaking to the press, Tupper Thomas, Prospect Park Administrator/Prospect Park Alliance President, sent a letter to the Friends of Prospect Park, in response to the recent slaughter of Canadian Geese in the park by representatives of the US Department of Agriculture. In the letter she announces that the park will be be forming a wildlife management taskforce comprised of experts in the field. “This will strengthen the Alliance and Parks Department’s commitment to safeguarding both nature and people…”

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