Councilwoman Diana Reyna (D-Williamsburg) is vowing to fight a plan to build housing at the site of shuttered Greenpoint Hospital after a private Bronx-based developer was picked to build the housing over the coalition of local nonprofits she favored.

If the concerts are really in South Williamsburg (as opposed to the Southside), this would open a whole new chapter in the hipster-Hasid culture wars.

Sort of makes you wonder about all those claims about manufacturing no longer being viable on the waterfront. This project will bring far more high-paying, good-benefit jobs to the waterfront than the eventual mixed-use residential/retail project will. The problem isn't that manufacturing isn't viable, the problem is that we haven't changed our definition of "industrial" to match the changing face of manufacturing in 21st-century Brooklyn.

But now it's back in business for the M train.

[I'm excited to see how Capital NY works out - they have some great talent and pretty far-reaching mandate.]

Among other things, the tenants and the landlord are now fighting over who did the most recent work in the cellar that led to the latest vacate order. The tenants say the landlord was trying to excavate the basement to create retail space. The landlord suggests the tenants are culpable. The landlord's lawyer says "eh, maybe it just happened".