Things might be heating up at the Greenpoint Hospital:
Councilwoman Diana Reyna (D-Williamsburg) is vowing to fight a plan to build housing at the site of shuttered Greenpoint Hospital after a private Bronx-based developer was picked to build the housing over the coalition of local nonprofits she favored.
This is a couple of weeks old, but Aaron Short has written one of the best pro/con analyses of the new loft law that I have seen.
As you’ve probably heard, Relish closed last weekend (we happened to be there for dinner the Wednesday before it closed, so we (unwittingly) had a last meal there). For many years, Relish’s diner was a ghost ship in the neighborhood – this cool old building that sat vacant and unused. I guess now it will go back to being a ghost ship.
Gothamist [via FreeWilliamsburg] has a new take on the future of the Kedem Winery site, or more specifically, the huge parking lot there. According to the post, JellyNYC is going to start a smaller Saturday concert series somewhere in South Williamsburg. The concerts would be outdoors, and the original Gothamist speculation was that the parking lot at Kedem Winery was the chosen location. JellyNYC has confirmed the new series, but – while not naming a location – has said that they won’t be at Kedem.
If the concerts are really in South Williamsburg (as opposed to the Southside), this would open a whole new chapter in the hipster-Hasid culture wars.
Aaron Short follows up on the CineMagic story at Kedem Winery.
Sort of makes you wonder about all those claims about manufacturing no longer being viable on the waterfront. This project will bring far more high-paying, good-benefit jobs to the waterfront than the eventual mixed-use residential/retail project will. The problem isn’t that manufacturing isn’t viable, the problem is that we haven’t changed our definition of “industrial” to match the changing face of manufacturing in 21st-century Brooklyn.
When asked whether she lived in [Bushwick], Ms. Snyder replied: “I live by the Montrose stop on the L, which is technically East Williamsburg. But I tell everybody I live in Bushwick.”
The law passed by the legislature is aimed more at SROs and apartment hotels in Manhattan, but should help enforcement of illegal “hotels” in Williamsburg.
Only one minor injury, thankfully.
In the end, construction of the Chrystie St. Connection took 10 years while K trains ran through the Cut for just eight.
But now it’s back in business for the M train.
At the brand-new Capital NY blog Katherine Jose has a blow-by-blow of the City Council’s deliberations on the Domino rezoning (spoiler – it was very unexciting).
[I’m excited to see how Capital NY works out – they have some great talent and pretty far-reaching mandate.]
