Month: July 2007
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554 Union Avenue
Via Curbed, GKA’s latest addition to the neighborhood. This one has potential, if only they’d lose the foolish balconies (are we waiting for a cruise ship to pull up? maybe this one?). And as one commenter has already noted, what’s up with the silly cross bracing at the base of the building? It makes getting…
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Exxon Oil Spill: Edumacational
[Exxon] has been working hard since 1979 to remediate the site. This information offers a greater understanding of the area, its history, the technology used in remediation, and the progress being made.In September of 1978 the United States Coast Guard on a routine patrol discovered a light sheen on the surface of Newtown Creek…”Oil slick”…
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B(N)B Lost Opportunity, South Williamsburg
Continuing the Building (North) Brooklyn awards ceremony, and following up on last week’s post for Lost Opportunity: Williamsburg, today we bring you 216 Broadway, winner of of the B(N)B for Lost Opportunity: South Williamsburg. Normally, we don’t venture past Broadway for architectural criticism – the barrel is very small, and its filled with a lot…
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Building (North) Brooklyn II
Continuing our series on design awards for North Brooklyn architecture (following the woeful neglect of the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce), today we present the award for the best new restoration trend: California stucco (a.k.a. EIFS, Dryvit, et al). Berry and North 9th. Yes, what better way to celebrate this historic workmanship of your rowhouse than…
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Building (North) Brooklyn
Tonight, the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce will present its Building Brooklyn design awards for architectural merit. We here at brooklyn11211 will not be attending, in protest of the fact that not a single North Brooklyn project has been honored this year (as far as we can tell, only one North Brooklyn project was even nominated).…
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Aloft with a View
Its hard to imagine a waterfront hotel with no view, but the much-rumored Aloft hotel at Broadway and Kent just might qualify. To the west, there is nothing but a one-story building and then the East River.
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Goodbye for now
The Quadriad proposal continues to be a cliff hanger. After much confusion over what exactly Quadriad was proposing, and therefore what it was approving, Community Board #1 voted last month to table the resolution in support of the Quadriad plan.
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Street name changes in the Eastern District
Miss Heather has uncovered some nice evidence of old street names in Greenpoint. When you look at it, it seems as though all of the streets in North Brooklyn were renamed subsequent to the annexation of the Eastern District by the City of Brooklyn in 1855. Greenpoint’s cross streets were A through Q; they were…