Month: August 2007
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Keyspan to Clean Up
You may remember that one of the theories floated for the origins of the Roebling Oil Field was the historic presence of a manufactured gas plant nearby (at North 13th and Wythe, I believe).
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Air Rights
Last night, in a daring midnight operation, Northside Piers put on airs…. The operation required a lot of very bright flood lights and a really, really tall crane.
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Perfectly legal
Facade easements are (still) perfectly legal, and are still a perfectly legitimate preservation tool. Basically, by donating a facade easement, you are gaining a tax credit for ceding control over the rights to your facade to a charitable entity.
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B(N)B: Developer of the Year (Williamsburg Edition)
We’ve been on vacation, so have not had time to keep up with our Building (North) Brooklyn awards. For those of you who missed the earlier installments, the B(N)B awards were started in response the recent Building Brooklyn awards.
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We need more stuff
Today we learn from Brownstoner that Sun Sun Corp. is bringing “condos and stores and stuff” to Ainslie and Keap.
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Walk This Way
Photo: teal185 We can’t find a link for this, but we received an email the other day announcing that DOT is changing the traffic pattern for the footwalks on the Williamsburg Bridge: The south footwalk of the Williamsburg Bridge, currently closed in order to facilitate ongoing rehabilitation, will reopen at 7:00 am on Monday August…
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Exclusive: Daily News Trolls Blogs
Photo: DumboNYC The Daily News has an “exclusive” in today’s print and online edition: Dumbo’s Pearl Street Plaza. If this sounds familiar, maybe you’ve already read about here. Or here. Or here, here, here, here, here and here. To name a few. Oh, and the press conference has been postponed. You wouldn’t know that reading…
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No Parking
Herewith, a scooter we came across while in Oz today. From the looks of this, the City is ready to crack down on sidewalk scooter parking – hell, it even looks as though they had special scooter-size stickers made.
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Kent Avenue: Gentlemen, Start Your Engines
After years of construction, Kent Avenue is finally rebuilt. The street is like a runway now – prime territory for fast driving.