This is kind of amazing. The original ULURP review for Broadway Triangle was in 2009, and community meetings were in 2007 or 2008. Since then, it has gone through litigation and happily reconciliation, and now is getting built out. (By last, I assume they mean last affordable site.)
We do need to get developers to stop naming projects like they are on mews in Olde Nieuw Amsterdam – Bartlett Crossing? Please.
A rendering of the project at 575 Grand depicts a contemporary eight-story building
I mean, that is one way to put it. Banal is another.
Still getting used to the idea of a hotel on the Southside. I guess the lenders are good with it.
One of the best Sunday Routine Times’ stories I’ve seen. I didn’t know that Chris Siderakis – owner of Kellog’s Diner – had died. His wife Irene took over the restaurant about three years ago. She seems to be doing pretty well at it, pandemic and all.
The rebirth of a mother Northside classic. Here’s hoping that this is a good thing.
This is nuts. LendLease, the new owner of the India Street pier, likely won’t be able make the Greenpoint ferry stop operational for a full year.
And this tidbit is just too rich – “A shuttle bus was offered from India Street to Hunters Point South, however citing low ridership, NYC Ferry discontinued it on June 9th.”
Speaking of the Bushwick Inlet IBZ and its rifeness with office space, City Council approved the rezoning of the Acme Fish site on Banker Street. Rubenstein Partners and Gensler architects – the same team that developed/designed 25 Kent Avenue – is behind this proposal. (25 Kent, by the way, is really a quite wonderful experience. Needs more people obviously, but the architecture and (in particular) urban design are quite nice.)
I will always think of this as the Fast Ashley’s building (on North 10th), or the movie truck building (on Wythe), or Tony’s aquarium loft (on North 11th), which I guess became Beacon’s Closet). Big assemblage – almost 1/3 of the block – in the Bushwick IBZ, which is already rife with hotels and commercial office space.
So the East River ferry’s only service to Brooklyn is at North 6th Street. This is working out great.
The City has started construction on 50 Kent, part of the Bushwick Inlet Park puzzle, as well as on the second phase of work at La Guardia Playground, located on South 4th Street next to the BQE on ramp.
When completed a year from now, 50 Kent will be the first new parkland created at Bushwick Inlet Park in almost a decade. The $7 million in funding for this 2-acre piece of the park was allocated in 2017, along with funding for the Motiva site at BIP.
Together, these two parcels will add about 3 acres to the existing 6 acres. The big question, though, is when the remaining 2/3 of the park will be finished. To date, no money has been allocated for demolition of the CitiStorage building, nor for remediation and construction on the remaining 16 acres.
