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444 Graham Avenue – The Race is On
444 Graham Avenue Photo: Curbed Yesterday, the City Council held its first hearing on the Greenpoint/Williasmburg Contextual Rezoning. That rezoning would eliminate, once and for all, finger buildings in most of North Brooklyn. But there are a few sites that are trying to get in under the gun. One of those is 444 Graham Avenue,…
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Fire at Rosenwach
Around 9:00 tonight Rosenwach Tanks (makers of the ubiquitous rooftop water tanks) caught on fire. It was an intense fire, and an hour later flames could still be seen leaping up from the building at the corner of North 9th and Wythe. A lot of fire trucks were on scene, along with police for crowd…
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Soccer Field of Dreams
As the Gazette reports, construction has finally begun on a portion of Bushwick Inlet Park. As I noted previously (and as originally reported by NAG), in May the City upped its commitment to building out some of the promised area parks. Here’s a rundown and status check of what the City said in May: Manhattan…
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City Planning Approves Greenpoint-Williamsburg Rezoning
The City Planning Commission held a public meeting on Wednesday and advanced two important Greenpoint-Williamsburg land use actions. The biggest was the approval [pdf] of the Greenpoint-Williamsburg Contextual Rezoning. The 175-block rezoning now moves on to the City Council, which will hopefully approve it by the end of July. Which means that we are about…
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Kent Avenue: Making it Better
By adding a left-turn signal at Greenpoint & McGuinness, most truck traffic could easily turn onto McGuinness (thick red line), greatly reducing the traffic on truck routes west of McGuinness (thin red line). Map source: Google Maps. The new DOT plan to fix Kent Avenue does a lot of things right. First and foremost, it…
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291 Kent Avenue
291 Kent Avenue, 20 May South 3rd Street building 291 Kent Avenue (S. 2nd Street building in background) Photo: Brownstoner Brownstoner asked what’s up with 291 Kent – here’s what I know. This site is actually three buildings – the small commercial piece on Kent (seen in Brownstoner’s photo), and two four-story residential buildings on…
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Partial Collapse: 223 Kent Avenue
223 Kent Avenue Collapse was at the far left in photo Photo: Property Shark As reported on Curbed, there was a partial wall collapse at 223 Kent Avenue (48 North 1st Street) this afternoon. I went by after work, and it was a pretty amazing sight. As Curbed alluded to, the new building under construction…
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Almost a Park: Transmitter Park
So let’s see if we can end parks week on a (slightly) up note, by highlighting some of the good news out there. Transmitter Park, original (2008) design. Image via Newyorkshitty First off, Transmitter Park, which is slated to go in at the former WNYC transmitter site at the foot of Greenpoint Avenue. The property…
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What’s Wrong With Franklin Street?
Photo: vidiot on flickr Jeremiah takes a walk down Franklin Street and doesn’t exactly like what he sees. Things like “outdoor cafes packed with wafer-thin women cradling chihuahuas in their laps, bars with clever names, ‘craft brew’ beer stores [where is that?], and coffee shops filled with bearded men peering at Mac laptops through chalk-white…
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Not a Park: Where’s My Park? Day
When I sat down Sunday evening to write about the state of the Greenpoint-Williamsburg rezoning four years down the line, I did not intend for this week to turn into North Brooklyn Parks & Recreation week. But it has, so let’s just go with the flow. Because as it turns out, this is quite the…