The New York Sun, continuing their impressive coverage of Brooklyn development, reports that:
The Bloomberg administration is looking to boost downtown Brooklyn by naming a Brooklyn development tsar to oversee the planned growth of the city’s third largest business district.
This is a welcome development. For one thing, the new tsar would integrate the alphabet soup of civic groups that now exist in the downtown area (deep breath): the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership (DBP), Downtown Brooklyn Council (DBC), Fulton Mall Improvement Association (FMIA), MetroTech Business Improvement District (MTBID), and the BAM Local Development Corporation (BAMLDC). Whew!
The internet anagram server took all these letters–DBPDBCFMIAMTBIDBAMLDC–and spat out two important downtown issues: difficulty finding a cab, and the hot real estate market (it said: “CAB MAD, FLIP IT”). A coded message for the new tsar, perhaps?
- Mayor to Name Development Tsar to Oversee Downtown Brooklyn (NY Sun)
- Downtown Brooklyn is Booming (Brownstoner)
- Internet Anagram Server (Wordsmith.org)
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