Author: Halden
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Monthly Office Suites at 33 Nassau
Also from the Real Deal, 33 Nassau Avenue (you probably know it as the Spritzenhaus Building) is leasing monthly office space on its second floor.
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175 Kent Fully Leased
The Real Deal reports that 175 Kent Avenue – a 112-unit building at the corner of North 3rd Street – is now full leased. What really caught my eye, though, was some of the broker babble: The 112-unit rental conversion at 175 Kent Avenue… Conversion from what? This is a new building. Never lived in.…
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Don Draper Was NOT in Williamsburg
http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/34/29/dtg_jonhammfilm_2011_07_22_bk.html
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Lentol on Bushwick Inlet Park
http://www.wpix.com/videobeta/4ffbc99a-560a-47a3-af59-aa82bb4f369b/News/NYC-Bails-On-ParkNews/NYC-Bails-On-Park
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City Too Poor to Build Promised Bushwick Inlet Park
http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/34/29/wb_inletdelays_2011_07_22_bk.html
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State Won’t Fund Kayak Center on Newtown Creek
The Newtown Creek Boathouse proposal, which was the top-ranked project for funding under the State-administered fund established to mitigate the City’s ongoing pollution of the creek during the construction of the Newtown Creek Waste Management plant may run aground because of the Federal designation of the creek as a Superfund site. Got that?
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Reversal on Plans for Williamsburg Park
The Daily News reports today that the City is reneging on one of the key components of the 2005 Greenpoint/Williamsburg rezoning – the 28-acre Bushwick Inlet Park. The park – which would straddle Greenpoint and Williamsburg – was the centerpiece of the City’s open space plan under the rezoning. In the six years since the…
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A Phantom Ride on the Evergreen Branch
http://bushwickbk.com/2011/07/18/a-phantom-ride-on-the-evergreen-branch/
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Who’s Behind the Blight?
Turns out that a lot of the stalled construction sites in Williamsburg (corner of South 4th and Bedford, 212-218 North 9th, 237-243 North 9th, 261-263 North 9th) are owned by the same pair of developers. Who also own the converted loft building at 100 South 4th Street and the vacated loft building at 239 Banker…
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The L Train is Crowded on Weekends Too
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/11/nyregion/with-weekends-not-sleepy-anymore-subway-faces-a-test.html