Category: Noted
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Misinterpreting Marty
Aaron Short must be reading a different version of Marty Markowitz’s Domino resolution. A cursory reading of Markowitz’s resolution shows that it is anything but an “enthusiastic approval“. Sure, Marty said yes, but he said with conditions. Just as the Community Board’s “disapprove with modifications” was not a complete rejection of the Domino plan, Marty’s…
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Rose Plaza Recap
Rose Plaza, in the papers: Council Approves Big Billyburg Project [Crain’s] Rose Plaza Ofers 30% Affordable Housing, Gets City Council OK [Brooklyn Eagle] More ‘Affordable’ Williamsburg Tower Gets Council OK [Daily News] Council Approves Rose Plaza [Observer] Rose in Full Bloom! Levin and Developer Ink Deal on Eve of Council Vote [Brooklyn Paper]
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1940s New York in Living Color
Photo: citynoise.org Citynoise.org has a lot more here, here, here, and here.
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Conover Cottages
Down in Red Hook, one of my favorite anachronisms may not go the way of the condo: Tina Fallon, a broker with Realty Collective, a Red Hook-based real estate company, said she came up with the idea for a design competition to restore the cottages in hopes of saving them so that they won’t be…
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Retail and Housing Complex Coming to Williamsburg – Or Maybe Not
351 South 1st Street in its gas station days Photo: PropertyShark (via RealDeal) Brownstoner reported earlier this week on the potential development of the former Shell station on the four-sided triangle at Grand, Keap, South 1st and Borinquen. The developers of the property are saying that they will build a two-story “retail strip center” in…
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Montagues and Capulets of Brooklyn Development
The Observer’s Eliot Brown has an article out today about the warring factions on either side of the Rose Plaza rezoning. The basic thesis of the article is that the objections to the rezoning are all about politics and nothing about land use – that developer Isack Rosenberg just wants “to do the same to…
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St. Paul’s on Path to Landmark Designation
Aerial view of St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church The Sunday School is the to the left in the photo and the rectory to the right Photo: Brooklyn Public Library Last week, the Landmarks Preservation Commission held one of its designation hearing days. The day included public hearings for two Coney Island landmarks, the Shore Theatre…
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Illegal Hostel at 112 North 6th Closed Down
There seems to be a trend developing. Just the other day, Miss Heather reported on a potentially illegal hostel operating (or about to operate) out of a former glove factory at 300 Graham Avenue. A few minutes ago, I received a press release from Assemblyman Joe Lentol’s office saying that another illegal hostel – this…
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Without Transit Improvements, NYC Growth Will Stagnate
Over at the Huffington Post, John Petro looks at the transit impacts of the “New Domino”: It is estimated that an underground parking space in New York City costs between $30,000 and $50,000. Even at the lower estimate, that’s $50 million dollars that the developer plans to spend building underground parking. What if instead of…