Vice is not moving to the Navy Yard. They are consolidating on Kent Avenue, though – Refinery29 is subleasing its space on Broadway in Manhattan and has already moved (most of?) its people to the mothership in Williamsburg.
I guess Williamsburg is not dead.
Havemeyer Street, 2020
Photo: Brian Rose via Untapped Cities
Some lovely photos by Brian Rose taken during the Spring of 2020, peak time of the shutdown. (It strikes me that many of the subject places he photographs are pretty empty during normal times.)
The end of May will see the premiere of Our Voices Seen and Heard: A First Hand Account, “an exhibit of artifacts from 50 years of protest, activism and victories in the communities of Williamsburg and Greenpoint Brooklyn.”
This should be very good – the organizers have been working on this for half a year or longer, and the source material is incredibly rich. Los Sures, El Puente, NAG (including in its original acronymic, Neighbors Against Garbage), GWAPP (including in its original acronymic, Greenpoint Williamsburg Against the Power Plant), and many more.
May 20th, mark your calendar.
According to a survey by the Partnership for NYC, 62% of Manhattan office workers are working remotely on a typical day and only 8% are working in person five days a week. Which pretty much aligns with my firm’s experience – only a very small number of people want to commute five days a week, though I think that on any given day more than half will be in the office in Manhattan. And not because of crime or homelessness, as the companies surveyed think – because it is a better way to work.
“The longer people worked remotely, the longer they wanted to continue to work remotely,” said Kathy Wylde, the CEO of the Partnership for New York City
Wylde is absolutely right, though obviously she thinks this is a bad thing. Not mentioned is what the rest of the New York City looks like – judging by street and restaurant traffic in Williamsburg, a lot of people do seem to be very happy working remote or hybrid. Maybe instead of making Manhattan the way it was we should figure out what it could be?
The original poster then suggested that people who have kids should move to Long Island. Later, someone else opined that dog owners should move to Long Island. (No one from Long Island has weighed in yet.)
The joke is on all of them – they do live on Long Island.
Korean investment firm NH Investment & Securities is under contract to buy The Dime Residences in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, for $157.5 million, according to sources familiar with the transaction.
The sale does not include the retail (the landmarked bank building). This is the second big residential sale in Williamsburg in the past couple of weeks – given where rents are going, not surprising I guess.
Zum Schneider closed in 2020, but is now doing a “pop up” beer hall on Sundays and Mondays at Rosarito Fish Shack. I can’t wait.
Via North Brooklyn Neighbors, the cover of the New York Times, 17 years ago today. Marking the finalization of the deal to rezone the Williamsburg/Greenpoint waterfront. The rezoning itself was enacted 8 days later. As I noted in an earlier linked post, 17 years on only a third of the promised Bushwick Inlet Park has been completed. Less than half the total open space promised has been created. And I’d guess a bit over half of the promised affordable housing.
In the papers…
via North Brooklyn Neighbors
