Month: August 2011
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Prime Time in NYC
http://brooklyn.ny1.com/content/top_stories/145500/-pan-am–filming-marks-a-city-milestone
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Liu Looking Into Greenpoint Shelter Plans
Things seem to be heating up over 400 McGuinness Boulevard, the loft building that keeps trying to be a homeless shelter. The Brooklyn Eagle reported last week that a “hotel developer” had acquired the property. The quotation marks are there because, while the developer does build hotels, he also builds a lot of homeless shelters…
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111 Kent for Rent
Brownstoner reports that 111 Kent Avenue, the Michael Muroff-designed condo at the prime corner of North 7th and Kent Avenue, is ramping up its sales effort as a rental. The project, which began life as a condo development, had been stalled for ages. Now it is back, as a “boutique rental residence” (boutique would be…
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Movin’ Out
Phil DePaolo may or may not be the mayor of Williamsburg, but he has certainly been a fixture on the neighborhood activism scene. And now he’s leaving town – moving to the suburbs for better schools. I worked with Phil on any number of issues in the neighborhood, didn’t always agree with him 100%, but…
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Matchett Candy Factory Rents
Crain’s reports that the former Matchett Candy Factory at Wythe and South 4th, one of the handsomest old factory buildings in Williamsburg, is fully rented. Further evidence (viz. 175 Kent) that the market for rentals in former condo developments remains very strong in North Brooklyn. (The market for condos isn’t doing too bad either, but…
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240 Bedford Bankruptcy Fight
The hulking steel skeleton of stalled development at Bedford and North 4th is back in play at bankruptcy court, as two developers fight for control of the property. The property had been tied up with urban renewal restrictions through 2009, though the current owner had proposed a deal to get out of those restrictions back…
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City Shutters Bronx School for Elevated TCE Levels
http://www.wnyc.org/blogs/wnyc-news-blog/2011/aug/09/bronx-school-closed-after-elevated-levels-chemical/
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11 Broadway Update
From Curbed, 11 Broadway gets a new (tan) facade. The building is about halfway up, and Curbed reports that it is slated to open (possibly with a grocery store) towards the end of 2012.