Category: Articles
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Gandar’s Bookstore to be Demolished!
What’s left of the building, at least. The demolition fence is up at 227 Grand Street, as seen above. What’s interesting about this site is not that it will be (yet another) finger building, nor that it will be (yet another) Karl Fisher joint. What’s worth noting here is the building’s history, dating back to…
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Town Hall
Mayor Bloomberg, looking for answers in Greenpoint. So the Mayor came to Greenpoint, and Greenpoint (mostly) behaved itself. The show was organized by North Brooklyn Development Corp., and was not open to general questions. As it was, fewer than half the planned questions were put to the Mayor. (As predicted, there were plenty of soap…
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Changes
The Mayor is coming to Greenpoint to talk about Greenpoint. As we said earlier, this is an opportunity not to be squandered. We will have the Mayor for a very brief amount of time – probably an hour or so – so this is no time for soap boxes, breast beating, grandstanding and hyperbole. Get…
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Move it or lose it
“Derelict” in the city’s eyes A while back, we noted the City’s recent crackdown on illegal sidewalk parking of motorcycles and scooters. Since then, we’ve heard first-hand a tale of woe that anyone on two wheels should take note of. After multiple incidents of having his vintage Norton knocked over on the streets of Tribeca,…
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Pool Aid: The OSA Benefit
If you haven’t heard of them, the Open Space Alliance is a new group that has been formed to serve as an advocate and conservator of north Brooklyn’s parks – including McCarren Park, the yet-to-built waterfront esplanade, and the yet-to-bought waterfront City park.
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Keyspan to Clean Up
You may remember that one of the theories floated for the origins of the Roebling Oil Field was the historic presence of a manufactured gas plant nearby (at North 13th and Wythe, I believe).
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B(N)B: Developer of the Year (Williamsburg Edition)
We’ve been on vacation, so have not had time to keep up with our Building (North) Brooklyn awards. For those of you who missed the earlier installments, the B(N)B awards were started in response the recent Building Brooklyn awards.
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Walk This Way
Photo: teal185 We can’t find a link for this, but we received an email the other day announcing that DOT is changing the traffic pattern for the footwalks on the Williamsburg Bridge: The south footwalk of the Williamsburg Bridge, currently closed in order to facilitate ongoing rehabilitation, will reopen at 7:00 am on Monday August…
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Exclusive: Daily News Trolls Blogs
Photo: DumboNYC The Daily News has an “exclusive” in today’s print and online edition: Dumbo’s Pearl Street Plaza. If this sounds familiar, maybe you’ve already read about here. Or here. Or here, here, here, here, here and here. To name a few. Oh, and the press conference has been postponed. You wouldn’t know that reading…
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No Parking
Herewith, a scooter we came across while in Oz today. From the looks of this, the City is ready to crack down on sidewalk scooter parking – hell, it even looks as though they had special scooter-size stickers made.