Monthly Archives: February 2007

What Sag Harbor Can Learn From Brooklyn’s Atlantic Yards

Posted on February 25, 2007 by Saltbox

Ordinarily, you wouldn’t expect to find a lot of similarities between Sag Harbor and Brooklyn. But while reading an Op-Ed piece in Saturday’s New York Times by Jennifer Egan (author of the novel The Keep), about the proposed Atlantic Yards development in Brooklyn, I was surprised at just how many parallels exist between Brooklyn’s struggle with that project, and our own issues
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In Praise of Listening

Posted on February 18, 2007 by Saltbox

I once worked for a company that wasted a lot of time in meetings. It wasn’t that the meetings themselves were a bad idea, it was just that the meetings never seemed to achieve the intended results. Ultimately, the company hired a consultant, who, after observing one of our meetings for about fifteen minutes, told us why our meetings failed. …
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Local Boy Makes Good (With Your Help)

Posted on February 16, 2007 by Saltbox

Usually when I ask my readers (all three of you) to do something, it’s for the benefit of the Sag Hampton community in one way or another, whether it’s a reminder to attend a meeting, or an entreaty to write … Continue reading →

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That Didn’t Take Long

Posted on February 13, 2007 by Saltbox

No sooner had I posted the story about the proposed ski-resort in Riverhead, than the whole thing started to unravel.  Anthony of the Ozone blog drew my attention to this Newsday article, (thanks Anthony) in which the paper quotes Riverhead Town Supervisor Phil Cardinale as saying, “I would expect him to be chairman, because that’s how he signs his letters,” …
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Unbelievable

Posted on February 12, 2007 by Saltbox

File this under “Development/Crazy.” My jaw is on the floor. Could this be for real? The blog Ozone quotes from the Long Island Traveler-Watchman (part of the Independent chain of newspapers) that a 500 ft. tall ski resort is planned for Riverhead, and that Riverhead’s supervisor Phil Cardinale is already salivating over the prospect. The Traveler-Watchman quotes Cardinale as saying, …
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