Month: March 2010
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Faith No More to Play Williamsburg Waterfront
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2010/03/faith_no_more_p_2.html
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CB1 Says Yes to Williamsburg Bridge Park
View WBP in a larger map Last night, long after the Domino drama was over, Community Board #1 passed a resolution calling on the City to turn the DOT-operated property underneath the Williamsburg Bridge (in green on the map) into a public park. As I wrote yesterday, this is not a new idea (in fact,…
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Open Space Mitigation
Photo: Bachner for the Daily News One of the biggest adverse impacts of the Domino rezoning is the impact on community-wide open space. As I’ve said before, despite a huge allocation of open space in the project (well above the minimum required by zoning), the project actually reduces the per capita open space rather significantly.…
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New Domino Mixes Parking Disaster WIth Bike-Ped Benefits
Streetsblog has a good article on the impending disaster that is Domino’s parking proposal. That’s 1,700 cars and it’s going to really overwhelm the community; there’s no doubt about that. 1,700 or 1,500, we’re still going to be overwhelmed. Domino claims it is matching the rate of ownership in the immediate area, but their study…
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Bagel Store Priced Out for Starbucks
Photo: Brownstoner Gothamist has some good stuff on the lease renegotiations on the Bagel Store. Long story short, landlord is doubling the rent, bagel store is leaving. But don’t bet the house on a Starbucks at this location. The landlord’s Starbucks threat (“[The landlord] told me, okay, I’ll give you a break and only raise…
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Waterfront Preservation
From the Greenpoint Gazette, a Domino spokesperson on the preservation of the Refinery building: No other waterfront development is preserving anything… Ahem. The developer of the Austin, Nichols & Co. warehouse (pdf) is not only preserving a huge industrial building on the waterfront (five blocks from the refinery), they are doing so voluntarily, with historic…
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You Can’t Live There
A long, long time ago I wrote a post about the ridiculous set up at 164 Grand Street. This is a new condo-turned-rental on Grand just off of Bedford (across the street from La Villetta Bakery). At the time, I noted that the building (designed by Scarano Architects) used every play in the book –…
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Controversial Brooklyn Architect is Barred
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/04/nyregion/04scarano.html
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Inside and Outside Domino Sugar Refinery
Industrial archaeology is always worth a link, and Gothamist has some photos of the interior of the Domino sugar refinery that are worth a look. Meanwhile, at the media tour yesterday, developer CPC announced that the affordable housing in the new Domino would be permanently affordable. Good on them – that’s a significant improvement from…