Category: Noted
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More Domino Press
In yesterdays papers there were a host of good articles out on the Domino rezoning, the City Council hearing and the politics at play. In no particular order, here are the must-reads. In the Observer, Eliot Brown’s Domino Theory: Brooklyn Dems Face Off Over Mammoth Williamsburg Project: The New Domino development was destined for a…
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Occupied: 400 Bedford
Judging by the bikes on the balconies, 400 Bedford Avenue, the new building going up right next to the Williamsburg Bridge is now open for business. Pretty impressive, considering they started construction less than 18 months (a year ago the steel was just starting to go up).
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Edge Still Offering Affordable Housing
A week after celebrating the ribbon cutting on the its affordable housing – and a year and a half after applications were first accepted for these units – the Edge still has affordable units available. This is actually not news – for a month or two now, the Edge has been calling affordable housing advocates…
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M Train Makes Its Debut in Orange
Above is a section of the MTA’s new-and-improved subway map, due to be released into the wild next month. Of particular note to residents of North Brooklyn is the orange line that now runs alongside the familiar brown of the J/M/Z line. That’s for the newly revamped M train, which is now part of the…
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Edge Celebrates Opening of Affordable Housing
Levine Developers and the City held a ribbon cutting for the affordable housing component at the Edge – the new waterfront condo development on Kent Avenue between North 5th and North 7th Streets. The Edge is the largest inclusionary housing development constructed to date in the City, and it represents a significant step forward on…
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Construction Worker Falls to His Death
The Daily News reports that Luis Zaruma of Williamsburg fell to his death at a Clinton Hill construction site. The accident happened yesterday afternoon at a construction site “on Bedford Avenue in Clinton Hill” (I’m pretty sure the site is 892 Bedford Avenue, just south of Myrtle). According to a DOB spokesman quoted in the…
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We’re #2!
According to this report in the Times, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is now the nation’s largest: If the team’s estimates are accurate, this spill would be far bigger than the Exxon Valdez disaster in 1989 and the worst in United States history. But as we all know, the Exxon Valdez pales in comparison to…
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Construction Worker Dies
There was a scaffold collapse at a construction site on Meserole & Manhattan in Greenpoint yesterday. Sadly, one of the workers who fell in the collapse died. I have not been able to find any further information, save for this rather gruesome bit on New York Shitty.
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Williamsburg Condo Boom Has Not Gone Bust
The Real Deal has an interesting article out today on the state of the Williamsburg condo market. Some prime takeaways: [Michael Brooks of the Developers Group] said deals are being made at $650 per square foot, which [Christine] Blackburn [of PDE] agreed seems to be Williamsburg buyers’ sweetspot [sic] for non-waterfront apartments. OK, so that’s…