Month: December 2011
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What IS Con Ed Up To On River Street?
Con Ed’s River Street site, partially demolished Photo: Sharese Ann Frederick on flickr I’ve mentioned this in passing before, but Con Ed is doing some serious demolition at its River Street facilities. The two-block site used to house a series of storage tanks, but over the past few months, the tanks have been slowly coming…
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St. Vincent De Paul Sells
Photo: Heather Roslund According to Brownstoner, the broker handling the sale of St. Vincent De Paul Church on North 6th Street has announced the sale of the property for $13.7 million. MNS, the broker, says that the mystery owner plans to convert the church. The church owns two parcels on North 6th Street. One of…
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Reasons to Love Williamsburg
NY Magazine’s annual list of reasons to love NY include two of my favorite things about Williamsburg – Santorini, which continues to offer a pay-what-you-think-its-worth dining plan, and The East River Ferry, which continues to swim laps around the L Train.
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Did the City Miscalculate Value of Bushwick Inlet Park?
Short answer – yes. Yolane Almanzar of the fledgling New York World has a very thorough rundown of why Williamsburg and Greenpoint may never see a park at Bushwick Inlet. The article is mostly about how grossly the city underestimated the value of the properties – by an order of magnitude, as it turns out.…
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The Old Fashioned
http://www.slate.com/articles/life/drink/2011/11/the_old_fashioned_a_complete_history_and_guide_to_this_classic_c.html#paragraph2
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Oh Look, @archdaily Fell for the Oppenheim Hotel
It looks like Oppenheim Architecture + Design has been sending out more press releases about the “international competition” to design the hotel for the vacant site next to the Williamsburgh Savings Bank. In the past few days, ArchDaily and other sites have suddenly picked up on this month-old “story”. Like I said before, the design…
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Williamsburg’s Rife With New Buildings Again
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/realestate/residential/current_affair_hShRxzMIet6CoAxdcKKEVO/0
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Restaurant Neighborhood of the Year: Williamsburg
http://www.zagat.com/buzz/the-2011-restaurant-neighborhood-of-the-year-williamsburg
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Roberta’s – One of NY’s Ten Best “New” Restaurants
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-14/nyc-s-ai-fiori-tertulia-head-10-best-new-restaurants-of-2011-ryan-sutton.html
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Surf’s Up at Slick’s
I tweeted a week or so ago about the transformation of Slick’s old place into the new home of Mollusk Surf Shop. Brownstoner has a another view of the cleaned up storefront here. I can’t imagine a better store to replace Slick’s – hopefully they’ll be taking up all the street parking with used surfboards.