Author: Halden
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Your Guide to a Tour of Decay
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/17/nyregion/mitch-waxman-tour-guide-to-decay.html?smid=pl-share
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City Reneges on Promised Brooklyn Waterfront Parks
Source: Wall Street Journal I’d been meaning to write a wrap-up post on last week’s City Council hearing on the status of the 2005 rezoning of the Williamsburg & Greenpoint waterfront, including the many articles that led up to the hearing. Happily, the Working Harbor Committee has done that for me – written a concise,…
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Inside the Domino Sugar Refinery
More scenes of abandonment and decay – this time from the aptly title Abandoned NYC blog (via Business Insider, of all places). Raw Sugar Warehouse, interior Photo: Abandoned NYC
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Brooklyn’s Boneyard
In the Daily Mail, a collection of photos from Williamsburg’s days (not so long ago) as a open-air chop shop. Photo: James Cathcart
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City Won’t Promise to Finish Two Long-Stalled North Brooklyn Parks
As the Brooklyn Paper reports, the Bloomberg administration has refused to commit to any goals or deliverables on the acquisition or construction of Bushwick Inlet Park or 65 Commercial Street. (I guess everyone has given up on the expansion of Barge Park?) Financial mismanagement and planning gaffes have also stood in the way of both…
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Brooklyn Waits on Promise of a Park
Stuck in Park Source: WSJ The Wall Street Journal has a lengthy article (and excellent graphic) on the fight to get the Bloomberg administration to follow through on the parks and affordable housing it promised Williamsburg and Greenpoint in the 2005 rezoning. Often there are community benefit components that make rezonings more acceptable than they…
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Let Us Drink in the Parks
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/let_us_drink_in_the_parks_rJL5DGQmnf3HQCZR6fp2xL
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Related, Silverstein Also Looked at Domino
The Commercial Observer has more information on the Two Trees acquisition of the Domino site, including the fact that two other major developers – The Related Companies and Silverstein Properties – were interested in the site. The Observer seems to agree with everyone else (myself included) that Two Trees is a good fit for the…
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Searching for the L Train’s ‘Silver Bullet’
http://secondavenuesagas.com/2012/06/12/searching-for-the-l-trains-silver-bullet/
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Residents, Pols Irked Over Slow Parks Progress
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/residents-pols-irked-1-park-built-williamsburg-waterfront-article-1.1093815?localLinksEnabled=false