Comments on: 1st Thursdays DUMBO Gallery Walk (01Oct2009)

By: back in the USA «

back in the USA « — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:38:25 +0000

[...] gallery – Kris Graves Projects – which had a late night opening that night as part of DUMBO’s first Thursdays. After a tour round his new space and a few free glasses of wine a small group of us headed to dine [...]

By: DumboNYC

DumboNYC — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:37:02 +0000

To be clear, we always credit our sources – both content and photos (unless we're asked that it be kept anonymous). Has Brooklyn Paper gone downhill since Newscorp acquired them?

By: e.p.c.

e.p.c. — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:27:54 +0000

Ah, but you forget, newspapers define their reality to only include “professional” media outlets.

I stopped reading the Brooklyn Paper when it became part of the Newscorp Reality Distortion Field.

By: DumboNYC

DumboNYC — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:17:03 +0000

The BP states: "Earlier this year, Freedom of Information requests by Yassky and this newspaper revealed that the School Construction Authority was not seriously considering alternative sites or developers for such a school."

I don't know why the BP takes credit for requesting the FOIL docs when this blog exclusively posted the FOIL info and docs twice:

http://dumbonyc.com/2009/09/28/yassky-dock-street/
http://dumbonyc.com/2009/03/19/david-yassky-pre...

Gersh, I don't care that you don't credit DumboNYC, but I'm just saying, give credit where it's due. Same thing happened when the NY Times lifted the origin of Dumbo's name, first published here.

By: Johnson

Johnson — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:56:40 +0000

Not on this subject but important neighborhood news:

“‘Dock’ tease: New internal e-mails show Walentas school would be substandard”

http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/32/39/32_3...

Interesting!