Month: August 2010
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A New Start-Up Workspace for Williamsburg
http://www.observer.com/2010/new-start-workspace-williamsburg
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Meatopia!
Capital New York – a new online magazine – continues to impress on the content side – this time with a look at why Williamsburg is becoming the meat eating capital of NYC. The article covers the history of Peter Luger, including its salvation in the 1950s by Sol Forman, and covers all of the…
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349 Metropolitan – Looking Good
349 Metropolitan’s courtyard mural Photo: Curbed Curbed has photos of the now completed (and now for rent) 349 Metropolitan Avenue (a 11211 favorite over the years). The recladded exterior of the building is a huge improvement, though the building overall is still a mess. But the interior courtyard at least has something worth looking at…
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Ferry Coming to North 6th Street
As I speculated recently, the Brooklyn Paper has confirmed that at least one of the RFPs issued recently by the City’s EDC is for the construction of a ferry landing at North 6th Street. Starting sometime around January 2012, residents of the Northside will able to take the ferry to their jobs in Lower Manhattan…
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The Bedford
Two new projects on North 8th Street are coming online – an 8-unit rental building at 203 North 8th Street and a 9-unit condo (The Bedford) next door at 205. Both are touted for their proximity to McCarren Park, the L train and “Broulims, a new supermarket, two blocks away”. This raises two important questions…
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Ferry Expansion Coming Next Spring
It has been discussed for ages, but it looks as though the City is really moving ahead with its plans to expand the East River ferry service to all of North Brooklyn. In addition to the action at India and Java Streets that I discussed yesterday, the Post has some vague details about a new…
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Java Street Pier
Stiles Properties’ proposed Java Street (bottom) and India Street piers, as seen in a 2009 rendering. Source: Architects Newspaper Last month, the City’s Economic Development Corporation issued an RFP for the redevelopment of the Java Street pier. This is the only City-owned pier on the North Brooklyn waterfront (it’s actually a pier in concept only…
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August 18: Titus Andronicus
Titus Andronicus, Bad Credit, No Credit and Bottle Up & Go are doing a benefit concert for NAG this Wednesday at Glasslands. Tickets are only $15, and there are still a (very) few left. Get ’em while you can.
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Remaking the Face of Brooklyn
The Times is out with a quick article on Karl Fisher and the Brooklyn condo boom. Fisher (along with Bob Scarano and a handful of lesser lights) are certainly responsible for changing the face of North Brooklyn. But with “only” 50 buildings to his name over the past 8 years, Karl’s output pales in comparison…
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Vans Coming to Greenpoint and I'm Going to Tumblr
Movable Type and SQL are annoying me lately, so I’ve (at least temporarily) set up shop at Tumblr – at least for the linked posts. My latest over there – Vans is opening up a 20,000 sf retail shop in Greenpoint – smack dab in the middle of what should be Bushwick Inlet Park (I…