Month: May 2009
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Driggs Avenue Insta-Building
506 Driggs Avenue This new building at 506 Driggs (at North 9th Street) sprouted like a weed over the past few months. It had been an empty lot for ages, but since construction started in January, its quickly turned into this pile of CMU. Per DOB, the four-story building is designed by Frank S. Smith…
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444 Graham – The Race is On?
The main impetus for the contextual zoning application that is wending its way through the public review process (Marty approved it – next up City Planning Commission) is the proliferation of grossly acontextual buildings all over North Brooklyn. No other part of the community has suffered worse than that corner of East Williamsburg just south…
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33rd Debate: Zombie Post
http://aaronshortstory.blogspot.com/2009/05/zombie-post-it-was-dead-now-its-better.html
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Former Williamsburg Tonic Water Factory Now Rentals
The Eagle transcribes a broker’s press release. We decipher it for you. “WILLIAMSBURG — An old brick industrial building in Williamsburg, built in 1909 as a tonic water factory, is being converted to residential apartments.” 44 Berry was a quinine factory. Quinine is an ingredient in tonic water, but 44 Berry was not making the…