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Some highlights happening this week:

• Jack Kirby Way co-naming ceremony on Monday at noon in the Lower East Side (honoring the legendary comic creator of Captain America, X-Men, etc.)
• Falun Dafa Day Parade on Wednesday at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza
• 5th Annual Peace March Against Gun Violence on Friday morning in Hunts Point, Bronx
• Frieze New York 2026 and 1-54 African Art Fair ongoing
• Bloomberg Square Mile Relay in the Financial District
• Dance Parade Opener Friday evening
• Washington Square Park Salsa Social (Wednesday)
• Live music all week at Herald Square & Greeley Square
• Summer on the Hudson free dance/fitness events

Plus multiple movie premiere street closures and after-parties.

Full list with times and locations:
https://nycinfocus.com/2026/05/10/nyc-events-this-week-may-11-15-2026/

Anyone going to any of these?

Some highlights happening this week:

• Jack Kirby Way co-naming ceremony on Monday at noon in the Lower East Side (honoring the legendary comic creator of Captain America, X-Men, etc.)
• Falun Dafa Day Parade on Wednesday at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza
• 5th Annual Peace March Against Gun Violence on Friday morning in Hunts Point, Bronx
• Frieze New York 2026 and 1-54 African Art Fair ongoing
• Bloomberg Square Mile Relay in the Financial District
• Dance Parade Opener Friday evening
• Washington Square Park Salsa Social (Wednesday)
• Live music all week at Herald Square & Greeley Square
• Summer on the Hudson free dance/fitness events

Plus multiple movie premiere street closures and after-parties.

Full list with times and locations:
https://nycinfocus.com/2026/05/10/nyc-events-this-week-may-11-15-2026/

Anyone going to any of these?

NYC This Week: May 11–15, 2026 — Lots of Free Events Across the City

Some highlights happening this week:

• Jack Kirby Way co-naming ceremony on Monday at noon in the Lower East Side (honoring the legendary comic creator of Captain America, X-Men, etc.)
• Falun Dafa Day Parade on Wednesday at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza
• 5th Annual Peace March Against Gun Violence on Friday morning in Hunts Point, Bronx
• Frieze New York 2026 and 1-54 African Art Fair ongoing
• Bloomberg Square Mile Relay in the Financial District
• Dance Parade Opener Friday evening
• Washington Square Park Salsa Social (Wednesday)
• Live music all week at Herald Square & Greeley Square
• Summer on the Hudson free dance/fitness events

Plus multiple movie premiere street closures and after-parties.

Full list with times and locations:
https://nycinfocus.com/2026/05/10/nyc-events-this-week-may-11-15-2026/

Anyone going to any of these?

NYC This Week: May 11–15, 2026 — Lots of Free Events Across the City

Some highlights happening this week:

• Jack Kirby Way co-naming ceremony on Monday at noon in the Lower East Side (honoring the legendary comic creator of Captain America, X-Men, etc.)
• Falun Dafa Day Parade on Wednesday at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza
• 5th Annual Peace March Against Gun Violence on Friday morning in Hunts Point, Bronx
• Frieze New York 2026 and 1-54 African Art Fair ongoing
• Bloomberg Square Mile Relay in the Financial District
• Dance Parade Opener Friday evening
• Washington Square Park Salsa Social (Wednesday)
• Live music all week at Herald Square & Greeley Square
• Summer on the Hudson free dance/fitness events

Plus multiple movie premiere street closures and after-parties.

Full list with times and locations:
https://nycinfocus.com/2026/05/10/nyc-events-this-week-may-11-15-2026/

Anyone going to any of these?

The document is called a Final Environmental Impact
Statement. The project is called Monitor Point. The
developer is GO Quay LLC, partnered with the MTA.
The site is the Greenpoint waterfront, Brooklyn Block
2590.

1,150 apartments. 1.2 million gross square feet.
Three buildings. Approximately 300 affordable units
at an average of 56 percent Area Median Income.

The city analyzed 13 intersections. It found
significant adverse traffic impacts at multiple
locations across peak hours. For some, it found
mitigation measures — signal timing changes, the
usual DOT toolkit. For five specific intersections,
it found nothing.

The five it cannot fix:

Franklin Street and Quay Street (weekday midday,
PM, and Saturday peak hours)

Franklin Street and Greenpoint Avenue
(weekday AM peak hour)

McGuinness Boulevard and Greenpoint Avenue
(Saturday peak hour)

West Street and Oak Street (weekday AM peak hour)

Franklin Street and Milton Street
(Saturday peak hour)

The crosswalk at Franklin and Quay also faces an
unmitigated pedestrian impact. Construction noise
at 3 West Street will exceed thresholds and is also
unmitigated.

The city's own language: these impacts "would remain
unmitigated and constitute an unavoidable significant
adverse impact."

To build this project, the MTA is relocating two
existing transit facilities — a Mobile Wash Unit and
an Emergency Response Unit currently on the
development site — to a new 143,000-square-foot
building at 213 Meadow Street in East Williamsburg.
That relocation goes into the North Brooklyn
Industrial Business Zone. East Williamsburg CD 1
gets a new truck facility. Greenpoint gets towers
and a waterfront park.

The public benefits are real. 43,000 square feet of
publicly accessible waterfront open space. A
permanent home for the Greenpoint Monitor Museum.
$300,000 a year to Parks for Bushwick Inlet Park.
A flood protection bulkhead. These are negotiated
commitments, codified in a Restrictive Declaration.

The tradeoff the city is making: permanent gridlock
at five intersections that Greenpoint residents
already complain about, in exchange for waterfront
access and 300 affordable units in a building that
won't be finished until 2031.

Wayne Barrett used to say that the test of a city
planning deal is not what the developer promises —
it's what the community is left holding when the
cranes go home. Greenpoint is about to find out.

Full document and reporting:
https://nycinfocus.com/2026/05/07/greenpoint-monitor-point-1150-apartments-unmitigated-traffic-may-2026/

FEIS directly:
https://zap.planning.nyc.gov/projects/2024K0358

Greenpoint residents — do the public benefits
balance the permanent traffic damage?
What am I missing?

Was at Music Hall of Williamsburg last night for the 4th annual Debt Gala and it was genuinely one of the best events I've been to in Brooklyn in years.

For those who don't know — it runs the night before the Met Gala every year as a direct counter to it. Instead of $30k tables, tickets start at $44. Instead of celebrities, you get the best drag, comedy and live music in New York. And all the proceeds go toward wiping out medical debt for real people.

This year's theme was "Body of Werrrk" — guests went full avant-garde with the human body as inspiration. Brita Filter hosted, Brad Lander was in the crowd, and the L Train Brass Band made the whole place lose their minds.

In 4 years they've erased over $4 million in medical debt. This year's money goes to Undue Medical Debt and Point of Pride.

Full photo gallery in the comments. Shot by me.

https://nycinfocus.com/2026/05/03/debt-gala-2026-brooklyn-fashion-drag-medical-debt-relief/