After many false starts, it looks as though development and clean up of the Nuhart site might actually be going forward. Details on the clean up are still sketchy, IMO (this is a hugely problematic site, with contamination that extends under the street and maybe adjacent properties).
Here’s What Happening with the Nuhart Superfund Site
Reinforced Concrete and the Turner Construction Company – They Changed the World
OK, I was drawn in by the picture of Austin Nichols & Co. (184 Kent).
But Suzanne Spellen (Montrose Morris, from Brownstoner) has been posting on Substack for over half a year now. She still posts about Brooklyn (see link above), though much of her focus has shifted to Troy, NY, which is also fertile grounds for architecture history. Her research and writing is always top notch, and the Substack is worth checking out.
Videos Show NYC Tearing Down Homeless People’s Tents With Garbage Trucks
Bloomberg had an out-of-sight-out-of-mind policy when it came to homeless people living on the streets and subways. Which was wrong.
De Blasio had a policy that seemed to want people to confront the problem (which is good), but did nothing to actually address the root causes – economics, housing, mental health, safety (for all). Which was also wrong.
I had hoped that Adams would find a middle path, and maybe he will yet. People shouldn’t be living on the street, but erasing people who have no homes, absent an actual policy for giving them homes (not shelters) just puts us at Bloomberg 4.0. Which is still wrong.
City Planning Hears Application for Last Building of Ongoing Broadway Triangle Project
This is kind of amazing. The original ULURP review for Broadway Triangle was in 2009, and community meetings were in 2007 or 2008. Since then, it has gone through litigation and happily reconciliation, and now is getting built out. (By last, I assume they mean last affordable site.)
We do need to get developers to stop naming projects like they are on mews in Olde Nieuw Amsterdam – Bartlett Crossing? Please.
186 Units Planned for Former Key Food site in Williamsburg
A rendering of the project at 575 Grand depicts a contemporary eight-story building
I mean, that is one way to put it. Banal is another.