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Willets Point Businesses Being Relocated
NY1 has some video of the remaining businesses in Willets Point preparing for relocation as part of the plan to turn the area outside Citi Field from a morass of chop shops and potholes into a commercial and residential destination. Chris McShane and I have long been proponents of the plans to...
Tuesday Applesauce
In Arizona: Daniel Murphy returned to action (at second base!) and went 0-for-4 with two walks and two runs scored. He was also picked off of first and made a throwing error. In Dominican Republic: Fernando Tatis went 1-for-4 with a walk. Luis Terrero went 1-for-2 with a walk, a double and a...
Wednesday Applesauce
Arizona Fall League Mesa Solar Sox 10, Peoria Saguaros 1 Josh Thole went 1-for-4 with a strikeout and made an error on a missed catch. Eddie Kunz was decent, allowing a hit and two walks while striking out one in two scoreless innings of relief. Hawaiian Winter Baseball Waikiki BeachBoys 12,...
Anti-Willets Point Development Protest Tonight
Per Chris McShane at Develop Willets Point, city councilman Hiram Monserrate -- the opposition's lone henchman, as it were -- will be holding a protest in the Shea Stadium parking lot tonight. Chris gives his take: This protest is intended to create traffic and get in the way of Mets fans. If...
Thursday Applesauce
Thanks to Nomaaaaahhhhhh and the Phillies' now-shoddy bullpen, the Mets are again tied for NL East supremacy. Billy Wagner begins his rehab assignment tonight with Double-A Binghamton Though details of Shea's closing ceremonies are still barely known, a Mets source leaked the following bit of...
Sunday Applesauce
A few weeks ago, I was interviewed for an article to appear in the New York Times about the effort by the NYCEDC to transform Willets Point from chop shops and environmental wasteland to a burgeoning residential and commercial development. The article appeared in today's issue, and includes some...
Tuesday Applesauce
Nice article by Steve Popper at The Record about Carlos Delgado's status heading into 2009. Specifically, the Mets hold a $12 million team option on Delgado which seemed very much up in the air a few months ago. Now, with Delgado's resurgence and the likely cost of replacing him, that $12 million...
Willets Point Next Step
Another important step for the development plan at Willets Point takes place this morning at Queens Borough Hall. A Land Use Public Hearing scheduled to begin at 10:30a.m. in the Conference Room on the 2nd Floor. If you're in the area definitely stop by, as the more assenting voices for the plan...
Willets Point Vote Tonight
If you are going to be in or around the Flushing area tonight and you are in favor of the plan to transform Willets Point into an area worth visiting instead of an environmentally unsound morass of run-down chop-shoppery, the Queens Community Board 7 will be meeting tonight to vote on the...
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