Brooklyn Today March 11: Brooklyn Today: Should SHSAT be scrapped?
The Lede
Happy Monday! Few bits of bureaucratic jargon are as ubiquitous in New York City reporting as ULURP. We hear it everywhere: in community board meetings, city hearings and from the mouths of developers. The word is brought up with the BQX streetcar, with rezonings and with planned high-rises. It stands for Uniform Land Use Review Procedure, but what does that really mean? Look no further.
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The Rundown
CHANCELLOR DEFENDS PLAN TO SCRAP ELITE SCHOOL TEST
“The notion that you can only receive a quality education at a specialized high school is false,” Richard Carranza said at a town hall in Bensonhurst.
EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT ULURP
What’s ULURP stand for? Who’s got decision-making power for ULURP applications? How can you get involved in a ULURP project? We’ve got answers.
OPINION: PRESERVATION ISN'T JUST FOR ‘OLD’ BUILDINGS
“To lose this building is to lose the opportunity to physically encounter history,” Simeon Bankoff said of 200 Montague St.
3 MEN WANTED FOR STRING OF 18 ROBBERIES IN BROOKLYN, QUEENS
The NYPD is seeking information on three men who allegedly stole more than $39,500from ATMs and registers.
More Brooklyn News
A Georgian restaurant in Sheepshead Bay serving dumplings with “thick, memory-foam-squishy skin” is all the rage right now. (NYT)
Antique store Yesterday’s News is expanding in Carroll Gardens. (PMFA)
A man — with no affiliation to the MTA — tries to clean the High Street subway platform on his hands and knees. (Gothamist)
Dog owners are up in arms over a crackdown on off-leash walking in Carroll Park. (Brooklyn Paper)
Staff Picks
READ:
“The Coffin Business Is Booming in Central America Due to Gang Violence” (Bloomberg)
EAT:
From Crown Heights to Cobble Hill, here are Brooklyn’s 13 must-try restaurants this month. (Eater)
DEDICATE:
Four statues of women will be erected across the city to supplement Shirley Chisholm’s monument in Prospect Park. But, that’s still not enough — here are 9 other females who deserve to be commemorated. (NYT)
DEBATE:
Presidential candidate and Sen. Elizabeth Warren wants to break up America’s largest tech companies like Amazon, Facebook and Google. (CNN)
⌛ ON THIS DAY:
In 1846, the Eagle reported, “Williamsburgh … Our neighbors of this pretty village intend soon to call a convention of the people, to amend their charter so that the village may be created into a city … the same as in New York and Brooklyn.”
📔 IMPRINT:
Natalie Portman graces the April cover of Marie Claire France.
👑 ROYAL WATCH:
“The 87-Year-Old Whose Royal Family Ledgers Fuel Tabloid Feeding Frenzies” (NYT)
🏀 SPORTS:
Nets General Manager Sean Marks puts his Newport Beach, California, house up for sale. (LA Times)