Category: Linked
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This is Fantastic News
The National Trust for Historic Preservation is the latest (and biggest) organization to sign on in support of preserving Brooklyn’s industrial heritage.
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That sucking sound you hear is New York
Two very different closing announcements, but both indications that New York City is getting less and less like New York City. In Williamsburg, the announcement that Galapagos is moving to Dumbo makes it clear that it is not just residents that are being displaced. Galapagos was only 12 years old, but it in itself represented…
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Less Crowding on the L Train…
…in 2010 – wah, wah, wah. While you are waiting to get on the L train, ponder some of these numbers from today’s Times: The busiest station on the Brooklyn part of the line is Bedford Avenue, in Williamsburg, which had 4.99 million riders pass through the turnstiles last year… Of course by the time…
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W/G Greenway Planning Workshop
Eleven miles of the waterfront bikeway have been planned. Your three miles have not. Come out and make it happen!
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Lot Line Windows
Gowanus Lounge: We’ve never had it happen to us, but we can only imagine that it sets the blood pressure to spiking. Fact is, lot line windows are an unprotected luxury. We live in a city of party walls, and, as the saying goes, unless you live directly on Central Park, no view is safe.…
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About That Thing on Top
Actually, I think that this has some potential. Though how you cram 20 units into this site will be interesting to see.
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The Finger Building Gets Dressed
After years of (rightfully) fighting against the context-busting Finger Building, it will be interesting to see what the (chopped off) finished product looks like. Soon, perhaps – the building is getting its skin on. And that skin is a terra-cotta rain screen, from the looks of it, though its not clear what happens between the…
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Which Williamsburg Building is Uglier? You Decide
They’re both pretty awful, and they are both proof that scale and materials ≠ context.
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LPC to Calendar Cluster of Greenpoint Buildings
A good start. One of the beautiful things about this designation – if it happens – is that provides a balance to the neighboring Greenpoint Historic District. The Eberhard Factory factory, along with the dozens of other factories, shipyards, refineries, etc. throughout Greenpoint provided the capital that paid the salaries of the managers who lived…
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Waterlogged
GowanusLounge has some interesting maps up, showing the vulnerable areas of Williamsburg and Greenpoint. Not surprisingly, an understanding of historical geography helps to make sense of it all. Obviously, the coastal blocks are all inundated in a Cat1 storm or higher. But upland, the effects are different block by block. The area immediately around the…