Red Hook Residents Squawk About Parrots
4/21/08 at 3:45 PM

Photo: Gowanus Lounge
Park Slope: Why is there a hazmat team outside a brownstone on 4th Street? Did an academically pressured child explode? Oh, wait, the local cops are saying that it's just some strange liquid we needn't worry about. [Brownstoner]
Red Hook: The home that some of the famed "Brooklyn parrots" are building for themselves in the floodlight balcony of a ball field here irks one local, who kvetches that it "looks like a slovenly osprey nest." There goes the neighborhood… [Gowanus Lounge]
Upper East Side: The Mets pay Johan Santana about $23 million a year, but reportedly, he's shelling out just a bit more than $3 mil for a lower-floor three-bedroom in a new building on East End. [NYP]
Willets Point: The bitter battle over this chunk of land near the Mets stadium officially begins today, as the city launches its quest for approval of a major redo here amid opposition from half of Queens' City Council delegation. [Crain's NY]
West Village: Folks who live near Washington and Perry aren't psyched about a curvy boutique hotel to be built on the corner, even though it's a story shorter than originally planned and it'll replace some ugly buildings. [NYT via Curbed]
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