Month: July 2008
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Williamsburg Walks Today
Reminder: Williamsburg Walks starts today. From noon until 7pm, Bedford Avenue will closed to vehicles from Metropolitan to North 9th. Its a hot day for the inauguration of this event, but there will be cafe seating at most of the restaurants up and down Bedford. You can also beat the heat (and the crowds) by…
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Williamsburg & Greenpoint Aren’t Cheap Anymore
http://www.observer.com/2008/real-estate/dude-where-s-my-deal
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Quadriad Buys Quadriad Site
http://ny.therealdeal.com/articles/williamsburg-development-site-sells-for-22m
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Melrose Place
Photo from BushwickBK of 326 Melrose, used in here conjunction with a blog post commenting on a blog post at BushwickBK. Over at BushwickBK, Jeremy has gotten himself into a “hep of poop” – sorry, “HEP OF POOP” – over the posting of this picture. Seems the broker, one Janet Corona of Flushing, did not…
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Greenbelt Wins Building Brooklyn Award
Greenbelt, 361 Manhattan Avenue. Photo: Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce. I screwed up – in yesterday’s post on the Building Brooklyn awards, I completely missed Greenbelt in the list of award winners. So there was a north Brooklyn project worthy of being the best of Brooklyn architecture. Greenbelt is a fantastic mixed-use project on Manhattan Avenue…
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Local Campaigns
NYC elections are still more than a year off (even the primaries), but the races are definitely underway. Tuesday was the deadline for candidates to file disclosure statements with the Campaign Finance Board, and the new numbers are already posted. The 33rd Council District (David Yassky’s district, which covers Greenpoint to Cobble Hill) is one…
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Soleil
http://www.gowanuslounge.com/2008/07/17/development-notebook-soleil-shines-down-on-burgs-s-1-street/