Friday Upper- and Outer-borough Blogging
November 13, 2009 in Neighborhood Scenes by Cyrus
Bloomie’s $100 million land grab at Coney Island [Brooklyn Paper]
Moon over Harlem [Harlem Hybrid]
City Lore to honor “places that matter” in the Bronx [Bronx Latino]
“We can go to the future known for the ferry and the dump, or we can
embrace our legacy as the center of the lighthouse industry”: The saga of Staten Island’s Lighthouse Museum [silive]
Wonder Wheel photo via Straits Time (h/t Brownstoner)
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