Category: Linked

Videos Show NYC Tearing Down Homeless People’s Tents With Garbage Trucks

Bloomberg had an out-of-sight-out-of-mind policy when it came to homeless people living on the streets and subways. Which was wrong.

De Blasio had a policy that seemed to want people to confront the problem (which is good), but did nothing to actually address the root causes – economics, housing, mental health, safety (for all). Which was also wrong.

I had hoped that Adams would find a middle path, and maybe he will yet. People shouldn’t be living on the street, but erasing people who have no homes, absent an actual policy for giving them homes (not shelters) just puts us at Bloomberg 4.0. Which is still wrong.

City Planning Hears Application for Last Building of Ongoing Broadway Triangle Project

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.

Greenpoint Ferry Riders May Be Stranded Until May 2022

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.”

Acme Smoked Fish Expansion Approved by City Council

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.)

Cayuga Capital selling Williamsburg assemblage for $65M

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.