It’s not just the “HPD” plan – under anyone’s plans for the Broadway Triangle, Shanghai Stainless Steel (and the other manufacturers) do not have a place. That’s why the industrial relocation money – and proximity requirements – that CB1 insisted on are so critical. Yassky and Lopez have gone on record supporting this money – now they need to deliver.
[UPDATE: Edited title to remove random Viking reference. Sorry about that.]
Existing subway lines can be crowded, especially in places such as Brooklyn where subway stops closest to Manhattan (near the water) are often very crowded with commuters.
Sounds familiar.
According to the Eagle, the sites under consideration are Williamsburg, Greenpoint, Sheepshead Bay, Floyd Bennett Field, Coney Island, Bay Ridge, Red Hook and Atlantic Avenue North. Of course if all our condo promises come true, we will have water taxi stops at Domino, Northside Piers, and Greenpoint. Not sure which is more likely to happen – a city-subsidized ferry or a developer-subsidized ferry.
WG News+Arts on the very unsurprising scaffold collapse at 5 Roebling.
[Henceforth,] the corner of Kossuth Place and Bushwick Avenue will be known as “Jose Sucuzhañay Place.”
I’m not a big fan of street renamings, but I’ll make an exception on this one.
Considering that I used to pay $300 to $400 a year to read the Times (picking it up most weekdays and most Sundays), $5 a month would be a bargain. But if they’re going to make it work, they’ll have to think through some very basic web-compatible concepts – like how people link to articles that aren’t free.
Someone needs to come up with the paradigm shifting model that reconciles two (currently) diametrically opposes ideas: 1) information wants to be free; and 2) news is worth paying for.
Reyna funds renovations at La Marqueta.
The bike to work bill is approved. The only “no” vote came from Bushwick’s Erik Dilan.
The Council made quick work of any potential last-minute finger abuse – this afternoon they approved the 175-block Greenpoint/Williamsburg contextual rezoning. No more of this. Or these.
444 Graham Avenue
Photo: Curbed
Yesterday, the City Council held its first hearing on the Greenpoint/Williasmburg Contextual Rezoning. That rezoning would eliminate, once and for all, finger buildings in most of North Brooklyn.
But there are a few sites that are trying to get in under the gun. One of those is 444 Graham Avenue, the former Marino Tile building. The owner would like to erect a 14-story 69-unit building on a site that, under the new zoning, would only allow a 4 to 6 story building. (The block, by the way, is mostly two and three-story row houses.)
You would think, with a stop-work in order in place since July 15 that 444 Graham would have a tough time beating the clock (which could ring any day now). But the SWO is only partial – the owner is allowed to dig test pits, load-test an existing beam and remove a “non-load bearing CMU wall by hand”. According to neighbors who have been watching the site, this allowed work requires numerous trucks going in and out of the site with stacks of cement mix and many, many, many workers.
DOB, for its part, says that they are inspecting the site a few times a week, and that all work is in compliance with the SWO.
We’ll see when the vesting application comes through.
