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Entitled Fraternity Dicks Return to The Hangover Part III

*UPDATE* Brooklyn Councilman Brad Lander Warns Real Estate Group to Halt Development Project Along Gowanus Canal

[UPDATE]: The Lightstone Group will continue its bid to build a 700-unit housing development on Bond Street along the Gowanus Canal despite concerns raised in a letter from Councilman Brad Lander yesterday, the company said in a statement released to the Voice. "The Lightstone Group is fully commi ... More >>

Brooklyn Councilman Brad Lander Warns Real Estate Group to Halt Development Project Along Gowanus Canal

City Councilman Brad Lander let national realty firm, The Lightstone Group, in on a little secret yesterday: it's not a great time to build along waterfront neighborhoods in the city right now! Lander sent a letter to Lightstone Group chairman and CEO David Lichtenstein urging the company to withdr ... More >>

Two Weeks After Sandy, Can Red Hook Winery Be Saved?

A few weeks ago, I wrote about celebrating the new Brooklyn wine trail. Both Brooklyn Oenology and Brooklyn Winery, featured in the story, were relatively unscathed by Hurricane Sandy. But Red Hook Winery is located right over the water, nearly at the end of Pier 41, and the facility was completely ... More >>

Fracking: Boom or Doom

America's hydraulic fracturing gold rush portends the greatest environmental disaster of a generation

For The Birds: New York City Summer Birdwatching

A recent post on the Environmental Protection Agency's Greening the Apple blog about seasonal birdwatching in Sandy Hook, New Jersey got us thinking: Do you have to go all the way to a neighboring state to check out the summer's cool birds? So we hit up two area birders -- Dr. Robert "Birding Bob" ... More >>

Carpet Beetles: Are They The Next Bed Bugs?

Invasion? The Voice recently wrote about bugs' inevitable(?) triumph over humankind. And though it doesn't look like bed bugs are necessarily going to be the creepy, crawly culprits who enslave us, we have recently learned about another species that comes out while you are asleep and defenseless: ... More >>

Department of Environmental Protection Clarifies Fracking E-Mail (UPDATE)

Mayor Mike Bloomberg has had his share of public reservations about hydrofracking, urging government honchos to keep drilling far from NYC's water. The City's environmental agency is on board, too. But a strange little newsletter released this afternoon from the Department of Environmental Protect ... More >>

Michele Bachmann's Bright Idea

From the toxic right, a surprisingly healthy notion?

Get Ready for Water Pipe Infrastructure-Mageddon

​Summer is great, isn't it? When the mercury rises, nothing beats pouring a cool glass of H20, watching the sprinklers overwater your lawn, or just taking a 3-hour shower. Unfortunately, this kind of behavior, combined with the heat itself, is doing a number on our nation's water piping. CNN r ... More >>

Credit Title IX, and Richard Nixon, for a U.S. Women's World Cup Win

​Like a cool shower giving respite from a heat wave, the U.S. women's soccer team rolls on, distracting us from ugly political and economic news and -- for at least a few moments -- bridging the country together. Today's 3-1 victory over France's Violent Femmes secures the U.S. team's positi ... More >>

Organic Food Is Often Grown With Organic Pesticides

Muffet/FlickrBummer.​Well, here's a bit of news guaranteed to make shopping at the Park Slope Food Co-op a little less smug: turns out that even organic produce can contain commercial pesticides.

Government Narrowly Avoids Shutdown

via Good Men Project​The government was this close to shutting down last night but managed to reach an eleventh-hour (literally) compromise before the midnight deadline. House Speaker John "Smarmy" Boehner presented the laundry list of spending cuts and revisions and got Congress' positive respons ... More >>

Berkeley Residents Panicking Over Almost Non-Existent Radiation

​The Daily has an article (not that I can read the whole thing in my iPad-less state!) about irritating Berkeley, Calif. residents being irrationally afraid of radiation from the nuclear crisis in Japan. They are flocking to the area's health food vitamin apothecary-places to buy potassium iodide, ... More >>

Peter Vallone, Fluoride-Hating Councilman, Wants Your Teeth to Rot

​A city councilman from Queens apparently wants your your teeth to rot and fall out. The Daily News says Councilman Peter Vallone is planning to introduce a bill that would end New York's 45-year practice of adding fluoride to its tap water, citing safety concerns and comparing the miner ... More >>

The Case Against Fracking in Gasland

Pat LaFrieda Meatpacking Space to Become an Art Gallery; Whole Foods to Stop Stocking Raw Milk

​Wtih 12 new cases of illness in the Midwest linked to unpasteurized milk, the raw milk debate is heating up, leading Whole Foods to pull raw milk from its shelves. [Wall Street Journal] Environmental activists have been attacking Nestlé over YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter for its purchases ... More >>

There's Poo In Your Coke; Smoky Foods May Be Toxic

​Curtis Allina, the candy company executive responsible for the modern Pez dispenser, has died at age 87. The former vice-president of what is now Pez Candy helped develop the first character dispensers, which became highly collectible. [NY Times] A recent study reveals that nearly half of al ... More >>

Gowanus Canal Now on Facebook, in More Than One Place

​The Post announces that "the Gowanus Canal has finally joined the 21st century: The fetid waterway has its own group on Facebook." They mean the EPA has started a GC discussion group at its page, at which it encourages conversations that "follow the conventions of polite discourse." As you ... More >>

City challenges state over upstate oil drilling

Despite preliminary guidelines released by the state Department of Environmental Conservation, which declined to ban natural gas drilling inside the New York City watershed, Acting New York City DEC Chair Steven Lawitts says that drilling for natural gas upstate could pollute water for 15 million pe ... More >>

Vets Get In On Food Cart Wars; Mercury Poisoning Spreading

​A veteran with a food cart in front of the Met, who doesn't pay for his permit in accordance with a law that allows veterans special access to steet vending, has led to other vets setting up shop in the coveted spot. [NY Times] Every fish tested at nearly 300 streams across the country was f ... More >>

Letters: August 4, 2009

25-Year-Old Hudson River Cleanup Plan Starts Today

Down on the Hudson River by Fort Edward, New York, General Electric, supervised by the EPA, started dredging today. They're looking to remove from the river the PCBs (Polychlorinated biphenyls) GE dumped there decades ago. When the government announced in the 1970s that PCBs are harmful to both f ... More >>

New York Schools Surprisingly Non-Polluted

Today's Fun Map: Top Brooklyn Polluters!

Feeding the Beast: Midday Link Dump

Living in a Bedbug State of Mind at a Midtown Hotel

Rudy Giuliani's Five Big Lies About 9/11

On the stump, Rudy can't help spreading smoke and ashes about his lousy record

Some Kids Left Behind

Stuyvesant alums finally join the fight for 9-11 health benefits

A Leaky Tank Near You?

Horoscope

It Takes A Villager

But Can a Solo Show With a Botanical Punchline and a Rare Muskrat Be an Action Movie?

Rehnquist's Daughter Got Badge and Gun

Justice Is Served

Nation

Nation

War Riddles

Ten Questions the Media Can't Answer

The Dust May Never Settle

How Dangerous Was That Dark Cloud Hanging Over Manhattan?

Prez Wakes Up in Wonderful World

Friends and Foes Hail Bush, the Conquering Hero

Bush to Cabinet: Yessir!

Big Oil Insiders Pull Prez Off Own Platform

Libertarian Belle

Gale Norton Rings in an America Where Polluters Police Themselves and Environmentalists Go Extinct

Nation

Nader Accuses Gore of Deceit on Environmental Record

'For Eight Years, Gore Has Flat-Out Lied'

The Chemical Congressman

Towns Raids House for His Pesticide Backers

Trading Gas

Polluters Fight Global Warming—and Government Regulation—With a New Market in Emissions Credits

Green With Envy

Pataki Wrestles Spitzer for Eco-Laurels

Unnatural Disasters

How Humans Are Behind the Weather Weirdness

Timor Ease

Clinton Makes Hay in Asia Mess

Tooth To Tell

Hamptonites Gather Baby Teeth To Fight Radiation

Nation

Tobacco Row