Author: Halden
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BP Markowitz Statement on Domino Rezoning
No link, so I’ll post in its entirety: June 30, 2010 BP MARKOWITZ APPLAUDS DOMINO DEVELOPMENT PROPOSAL, ADVOCATES FOR MORE AFFORDABLE AND ELDERLY HOUSING, SUPERMARKET AND ARTISAN SPACE “I commend Speaker Christine Quinn for leading the Council on this issue, Council Member Steve Levin, the community for its input and Refinery LLC for its ambitious…
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More Domino Press
In yesterdays papers there were a host of good articles out on the Domino rezoning, the City Council hearing and the politics at play. In no particular order, here are the must-reads. In the Observer, Eliot Brown’s Domino Theory: Brooklyn Dems Face Off Over Mammoth Williamsburg Project: The New Domino development was destined for a…
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349 Metropolitan Continues to Suck
349 Metropolitan: When Dreams Were Big One of my favorite condo-glut whipping boys is back. As Curbed posted today, 349 Metropolitan Avenue is getting a facelift – losing it’s Jerusalem Gold Stone in favor of Pennsylvania Beige Brick (OK, I made up the Pennsylvania part). The stone was a disaster from the get go, probably…
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Picture This
What Williamsburg Bridge Park could be Photo: Pamela Hutchinson Williamsburg Bridge Park, today Sometimes it takes a little imagination. Sometimes it takes a little inspiration. And sometimes it takes a tourist on holiday. This morning all three came together when I saw Pamela Hutchinson’s photo of the Manhattan Bridge on Brownstoner. This is exactly the…
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Domino: Still Big
Everyone is getting ready for next week’s City Council hearing on New Domino (Monday, 10 a.m., City Hall) – the last public hearing of the process, you’ll be pleased to hear. Churches United is holding rallies in East Williamsburg and handing out fliers at the L train; Steve Levin and Vito Lopez have an op-ed…
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Lost City: Goodbye to All That
Brooks of Sheffield has decided to shut down his excellent blog, Lost City. A shame, because his was one of the better written, better researched blogs on ephemeral New York. And he’s not going out on an optimistic note: Most of the City is lost after all — the good parts, anyway… It’s like writing…
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Occupied: 400 Bedford
Judging by the bikes on the balconies, 400 Bedford Avenue, the new building going up right next to the Williamsburg Bridge is now open for business. Pretty impressive, considering they started construction less than 18 months (a year ago the steel was just starting to go up).
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Absolut Ethics
The Time’s Week in Review section had a piece on the fallout from the “viral” marketing campaign to pay local bloggers to promote Absolut’s new Brooklyn brand of vodka. In case you missed it (and you probably did), the whole thing spilled over after the latest Brooklyn Blogfest, when some people took exception to the…
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Uncovered: 142 North 1st Street
For the past year or two, the nondescript garage on North 1st between Berry and Bedford has been under renovation. A few months ago, the work revealed something a bit more descript – the ghosts of an old city health clinic. The clinic was constructed in 1938 on the site of what was the village…
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Edge Still Offering Affordable Housing
A week after celebrating the ribbon cutting on the its affordable housing – and a year and a half after applications were first accepted for these units – the Edge still has affordable units available. This is actually not news – for a month or two now, the Edge has been calling affordable housing advocates…