Category: Articles
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Cleaning Up Bushwick Inlet Park
What will (hopefully) someday be a 28-acre waterfront park at Bushwick Inlet has a long and messy industrial legacy to contend with.
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321 Wythe Avenue Revealed
The oldest Catholic parish in Williamsburg is no more – in its place, 130 units of market-rate housing.
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Williamsburg Bar Crown Vic Is Closing To Make Way For “Major” Development Project
http://gothamist.com/2016/04/20/williamsburg_crown_vic_closing.php
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22,000 Housing Units? Sounds Low.
CityRealty, as reported in DNA is estimating that 22,000 new apartments will be built in northern Brooklyn between now and 2019. Northern Brooklyn in this case means Red Hook to Bushwick, and everything in between. Their estimate only includes “large” developments of 20 units or more, so it is necessarily a low estimate. A really…
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Don’t Believe the Census
I’ve written in the past about my skepticism regarding the 2010 census when it comes to Brooklyn in general and Williamsburg/Greenpoint in particular. For an illustration of exactly how wack the 2010 census is, look no further the data on new housing units since 2000. Between 2000 and 2009, CB1 (Williamsburg and Greenpoint) added just…
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Dusting Off the Williamsburg Apple Store Rumor
As with Starbucks, if you repeat the Apple-store-is-coming-to-Williamsburg rumor often enough, someday it will come true. Was the Bagel Store (and Corcoran, and the natural food store, and the vintage clothing store, and the pet food store) space warehoused to create a large retail space when Kings left? Absolutely. Will something big go there? Almost…
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Grand Street: The Williamsburg Divide
Grand Street separates two neighborhoods in Williamsburg, and the Times is on it. The result could be the single worst article ever written about Williamsburg in the paper of record. Already there is one correction: “An earlier version of this article misspelled in one instance the name of an avenue in Brooklyn. It is Wythe…
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Vote
Vote. My one political plug – I have three local candidates that I have been supporting all year with my time and my money: Dan Squadron, Antonio Reynoso and Steve Levin. All three have worked very hard for our community for years, and all three have earned our votes. Dan Squadron is running for Public…
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Article 78
Like a lot of people in Greenpoint and Williamsburg, Stephen Pierson wants to turn back time and undo the waterfront rezoning for Greenpoint (and presumably Williamsburg). Unlike a lot of people, Pierson is running for City Council, so his ideas are getting a lot of attention. As someone who has spent a lot of time…