Month: April 2010
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Williamsburg Hostel Building Suffers from Violations
http://thebrooklynink.com/2010/04/14/10610-williamsburg-hostel-building-suffers-from-violations/
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Rose Plaza Recap
Rose Plaza, in the papers: Council Approves Big Billyburg Project [Crain’s] Rose Plaza Ofers 30% Affordable Housing, Gets City Council OK [Brooklyn Eagle] More ‘Affordable’ Williamsburg Tower Gets Council OK [Daily News] Council Approves Rose Plaza [Observer] Rose in Full Bloom! Levin and Developer Ink Deal on Eve of Council Vote [Brooklyn Paper]
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Rose Plaza Deal Reached
The Brooklyn Paper is reporting this morning that a deal has been reached on the Rose Plaza development. The final deal is very much along the lines of what I intimated last night – 30% affordable housing, 74 apartments at 3 and 4 bedrooms, and all of those larger, family-sized, apartments at below-market rates1. The…
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1940s New York in Living Color
Photo: citynoise.org Citynoise.org has a lot more here, here, here, and here.
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The Census (Again)
Seems like everyone is having fun with the whole hipsters-hate-the-census meme – even NPR got into the act over the weekend. The funny thing is, “Williamsburg” as the City is defining it pretty much equals Hasidic South Williamsburg. Not that the hipsters are doing that well – the response rate for most of North Brooklyn…
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No Deal on Rose Plaza Yet
http://www.gothamgazette.com/blogs/wonkster/2010/04/13/no-deal-on-rose-plaza-yet/
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Conover Cottages
Down in Red Hook, one of my favorite anachronisms may not go the way of the condo: Tina Fallon, a broker with Realty Collective, a Red Hook-based real estate company, said she came up with the idea for a design competition to restore the cottages in hopes of saving them so that they won’t be…
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The Census
According to Gothamist, Brooklyn has the lowest response rate for filling out Census forms, and Williamsburg is dead-ass last in the borough. This is not good. You’ve heard it all before, but the census is used to determine all sorts of things for the next 10 years. If Williamsburg’s response rate remains low, Williamsburg will…