Bridgestone Cleaners Goes Green in Cobble Hill
Ken Kinzer, founder of Bridgestone Cleaners, recounts moving from perchloroethylene to wet cleaning and adopting GreenEarth solvents. The shop earned GreenCleaners Council leaves and Clothing Care Council awards while partnering with Operation PROM to collect and clean prom gowns for students.
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Brooklyn
Ken Kinzer
Bridgestone Cleaners
Ken
Bridgestone
Cobble Hill
Bank
GreenEarth
Kansas City
Green Cleaners Council
The
Clothing Care Council
Operation Prom
Zach
Red Hook Trolley Hope Hinges on Mayoral Win
Brooklyn activist Bob Diamond leads the Brook lyn Historic Railway Assn with GCCDC and GBX to push a $50 million trolley loop from Court Street to Smith Nine stations. DOT counters with a 2011 feasibility study costing $176 million for 1,822 riders daily. Diamond argues for federal grants and Portland style funding, while DOT backs enhanced bus and pedestrian options. Christine Quinn emerges as a potential ally, linking her family history as a trolley driver to the city’s transit debate.
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Bob Diamond
Brooklyn Historic Railway Association
Department of Transportation
DOT
Gowanus Canal
Brooklyn
Nydia Velazquez
Red Hook
Nick Mosquera
Red Hook Houses
Smith/9th Street
Diamond
Bloomberg
Queens
Manhattan
Christine Quinn
New York City Council
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Green Dry Cleaners
Aleks Gilbert
Court Street
New York State
Select Mail
Tek Shekaeek
Ak 101 Union
Selectmail
George
St. Ann’s Warehouse
Eastern Athletic Club
al Vann, Bwac
St. Francis College
Stacie Nieves
San Francisco
New Orleans
Borough Hall
Boerum Place
Atlantic Avenue
Columbia Street
Richards Street
IKEA
Beard, Columbia, Bay
Clinton Streets
West 9Th Street
Smith-Ninth Street
U.S
Craig Hammerman
Community Board 6
Hammerman
New York
Portland
Oregon
Missouri
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