Category: Linked

Two Northside Piers is 50% Sold

I keep hearing about how great sales are at the Edge, but next door, Toll Brothers’ Northside Piers project is quietly selling a lot of units.

Two Northside Piers, the second phase of the much better-looking waterfront development, is now 50% sold (one Northside Piers sold out ages ago). If my numbers (and theirs) are correct, Northside has sold more than 310 of about market-rate 450 units, or about 69% overall. Next door, the Edge has sold about 38% (“nearly 40%”!) of its 565 market-rate units.

Quit Your Whining and Start Shoveling

Fucked in Park Slope is not impressed with the fortitude of Park Slopers when it comes to the resumption of alternate-side parking. It seems to be a citywide phenomenon, though – car owners everywhere are appalled that after 17 days they should dig their vehicles out and let the city sweep and plow to the curb. Worse yet, there seems to this collective sense that this is all Bloomberg’s fault – as if the Department of Sanitation should be digging out your car.

Get over it.

it’s not just car owners, either:

And, while I’m getting ranty, SHOVEL YOUR DOG SHIT too! Why does the snow make you think you’ve got a free pass to smearing fucking fecal matter all over the sidewalks????

To which I would add: sidewalk clean up in general. As the grey glaciers finally start to recede, they are exposing piles of litter which property owners and residents alike seem to feel they are exempt from picking up. Your city is a mess, and it’s not all (all) “the City’s” fault.

Stop whining and pick up.

Kitchen Incubator

EDC has issued an RFP for a “kitchen incubator” in Brooklyn. The project would create a “food-use related incubator program, such as food manufacturing, storage, or shared commercial kitchen space” in northern Brooklyn. The RFP identifies Bed-Stuy, Brownsville and the Moore Street market in East Williamsburg as some ofmthe potential locations. The latter location makes a ton of sense – a vibrant but underutilized WPA-era food market. The community and the merchants at the market strongly support locating the incubator there, and the city is planning a $1.2 million plaza upgrade for the exterior.

Fire: 13 Conselyea Street

Not much to go on, but Metro is reporting that today’s fire on Conselyea was the result of “hoarding” (or at least that the firefighters referred to it as a “Collyer’s Mansion“, which may or may not mean that hoarding caused the fire – like I said, not much to go on).

Ruminations on Duane Reade

Yes, way too much has been written about Bedford Avenue’s Duane Reade. But Williams Cole’s piece in the Brooklyn Rail is still worth a read.

That Suburban Feel

So if Williamsburg is going suburban, why not buy a surban-feeling townhouse there?

Yes, NY Observer, nothing says suburban like a 140-year-old brick row house in a neighborhood that hasn’t been a suburb for 175 years.

Question: exactly how many (or how few) fruit trees does it take to qualify as a “fruit orchard”? And doesn’t a “fruit orchard” evoke a more rural sensibility? Perhaps this is really a farm house?