Author: Halden
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Rose Plaza: Then
Mollenhauer Sugar Refining Co. (between South 10th Street and Division Avenue) Source: King’s Views of Brooklyn, 1905 The photo above (click for a larger image) shows the Rose Plaza site as it looked 105 years ago. The building the “M” on the smokestack is the main refinery of the Mollenhauer Sugar Refining Company, and was…
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Broadway Triangle Vote Postponed
Juliet Linderman has the latest on the Broadway Triangle – which is that it is still stuck in Council subcommittees. This is datelined yesterday, so it is possible that there was a vote today (Thursday). If so, I haven’t seen anything yet. Basically, the Council is still negotiating with itself, choosing sides over the issue.…
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December Retail Report
232 Bedford Avenue – open for business Not like this is a regular feature, but after seeing the very sudden emergence of retail at the corner of Bedford and North 4th, it got me thinking about all of the retail that has been popping up in the neighborhood. The 232 Bedford Avenue building had been…
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Party Like Your Neighborhood Depends On It
Next Thursday (10 December) from 7 to 10 pm there is a benefit for NAG (Neighbors Allied for Good Growth – the second G is silent) at the Woods on South 4th Street. No cover, but donations are welcome. There will be plenty of booze, and a silent auction featuring goodies from local institutions, such…
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Bedford Avenue Stripped of Bike Lanes
FREEWilliamsburg says it’s bullshit, and they’re right. The removal of the bike lane on a section of Bedford Avenue – the section that runs through the heart of the Hasidic community, was a bad decision, made for bad reasons. Gothamist says that the Bedford Avenue bike lane was “relatively noncontroversial”, but that is not the…
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Forgotten by Time and Termites
Hyde & Co. Insurance Map of Brooklyn, 1898 Plate 34 Source: NYPL The Times profiles life in New York City’s wood-frame houses – a building type that definitely has its charms and pitfalls (I live in a 175-year-old wood house, so I know both). But while they are rare in Manhattan and brownstone Brooklyn, north…
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349 Metropolitan: Full on Condo Blight
349 Metropolitan: Foreclosed and Blighted 349 Metropolitan Avenue started out pretty ugly, and it was clear from the outset that the craftsmanship left something to be desired. But now that it’s had a few month to stew in its foreclosure, the project is really detracting from the neighborhood.
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Tourist Season
Tourist Season Saturday may have been a dreary day, but it was a perfect day for shopping on Bedford Avenue. This group came all the way from Canada by motor coach to shop in our little hipster paradise. The grown ups were in the vintage shop across the street.