Author: Halden
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Drink Up
CB1’s Public Safety Committee is meeting this evening to review liquor license applications. There are 26 applications on the docket (11 new, 14 renewals and 1 alteration) – a pretty light month by CB1 standards. Here’s the full list: Alterations: Small Giants Inc. – 197 Bedford Avenue (alteration) New: 302 Metropolitan Avenue Inc. – 302 Metropolitan…
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M Train Makes Its Debut in Orange
Above is a section of the MTA’s new-and-improved subway map, due to be released into the wild next month. Of particular note to residents of North Brooklyn is the orange line that now runs alongside the familiar brown of the J/M/Z line. That’s for the newly revamped M train, which is now part of the…
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Edge Celebrates Opening of Affordable Housing
Levine Developers and the City held a ribbon cutting for the affordable housing component at the Edge – the new waterfront condo development on Kent Avenue between North 5th and North 7th Streets. The Edge is the largest inclusionary housing development constructed to date in the City, and it represents a significant step forward on…
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Construction Worker Falls to His Death
The Daily News reports that Luis Zaruma of Williamsburg fell to his death at a Clinton Hill construction site. The accident happened yesterday afternoon at a construction site “on Bedford Avenue in Clinton Hill” (I’m pretty sure the site is 892 Bedford Avenue, just south of Myrtle). According to a DOB spokesman quoted in the…
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We’re #2!
According to this report in the Times, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is now the nation’s largest: If the team’s estimates are accurate, this spill would be far bigger than the Exxon Valdez disaster in 1989 and the worst in United States history. But as we all know, the Exxon Valdez pales in comparison to…
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Under (Re)construction
Things might break around here. Apologies in advance – hopefully all will be right soon enough.
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Construction Worker Dies
There was a scaffold collapse at a construction site on Meserole & Manhattan in Greenpoint yesterday. Sadly, one of the workers who fell in the collapse died. I have not been able to find any further information, save for this rather gruesome bit on New York Shitty.
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Williamsburg Condo Boom Has Not Gone Bust
The Real Deal has an interesting article out today on the state of the Williamsburg condo market. Some prime takeaways: [Michael Brooks of the Developers Group] said deals are being made at $650 per square foot, which [Christine] Blackburn [of PDE] agreed seems to be Williamsburg buyers’ sweetspot [sic] for non-waterfront apartments. OK, so that’s…
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Happy Rezoning Day
For those of you that forgot to mark you calendars, tomorrow is Rezoning Day. That’s right, it is five years since the City Council approved the Greenpoint-Williamsburg Waterfront Rezoning. On May 11, 2005, the City Council and the Mayor’s office finalized a package of promises that paved the way for the enactment of the rezoning. Since it’s…