Category: Noted
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Bushwick BK Redesign
A little busy for my tastes, but it looks good, and more important, does a great job of organizing what is becoming a font of content.
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A Walk in NY With the Ramones
Chris Stein, the Ramones and a walk in midtown, ca. 1986. As Bob Guskind used to say, because we can.
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City to Convert Public Housing into Regional Airport Facilities
In an effort to cope with mounting budget shortfalls, the Bloomberg administration has announced that it will convert NYCHA facilities throughout the city into micro-airports. The move is seen as a direct threat to smaller area airports such as MacArthur and Newburgh, but is not expected to significantly impact flight operations at LaGuardia, Newark or…
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The Greatest Building in NYC (Hint: It’s Not in Williamsburg)
New York magazine’s latest issue is all about “the Greatest New York ______“, and one of the categories is the greatest New York building. A panel of architectural luminaries had this to say: Q: Do you thing that anything new could ever compete with Grand Central for the title of best building? [Winka] Dubbeldam: Sometimes…
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It’s a Flash Artisanal Market!
OK, you’ve no doubt seen this already, but Brian Williams’ epic takedown of the Times (and Brooklyn) is worth another view.
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Yet Another Khim’s Millennium Market Coming to Bedford Avenue
Via the Brooklyn Paper, word that yet another Bedford Avenue storefront will become a Khim’s Millennium Market. With another outlet set to open on Bedford and South 2nd, that brings the number of Khim’s on Bedford to three, with the entire Khim’s empire at six (they also have outposts on Bushwick, Graham and Driggs Avenues).…
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Ark Restaurant Coming to the Edge
According the Wall Street Journal (but behind a pay wall), Manhattan-based Ark Restaurants is going to be opening a new eatery at the Edge’s waterfront-side retail space. Ark operates 9 establishments across the river, including Bryant Park Grill. The 7,000 sf restaurant would be the first to open on the waterfront (two restaurants are already…
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Cooperage Hotel Plan Questioned
Weidmann Cooperage 80 Wythe Avenue (photo: WPA) The Wall Street Journal reports that Two Trees Management is looking for federal tax-exempt financing for its hotel project at 80 Wythe Avenue. Two Trees, the DUMBO-based development firm, bought the former Weidmann Cooperage a few years ago, and has planned a hotel there all along. The subsidies…
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Swells Angels
Photo: Joel Raskin for Outside Magazine. Outside magazine, on the waterfront: The next three hours constituted the single most thrilling ride I’ve ever had in New York—no small boast in the land of the runaway cab. Anthony raced us past the sunbathers on Manhattan Beach. He brought us within yards of the Statue of Liberty’s…
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Out of Context at 11 Broadway
11 Broadway (the latest model) Photo: GreenbergFarrow via Crain’s Talk about out of context. In the course of an article on L+M’s new proposal for 11 Broadway, the Brooklyn Paper manages to drag up a three-year-old quote of mine on a completely different development proposal for the site, making it sound like I am trashing…