Category: Noted
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Gowanus Lounge is Back (in Little Italy)
My RSS and Twitter feeds are suddenly alive with new posts from Gowanus Lounge. If you go to the site, you’ll see that it has a new design and all new content. (If that picture of Little Italy at the top of the page seems a bit familiar (and yet a little unBrooklyn), you may…
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291 Bedford Avenue
291 Bedford Avenue Rosenbaum Design Group, Architects This building has been going up on the corner of South 1st and Bedford for some months now (one of many green shoots on the Southside). Textbook example of how a small building can be completely out of context. Not surprising given the architect’s speciality – shopping centers…
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McCarren Pool Groundbreaking
l to r: Assembly Member Joe Lentol; Marty Markowitz; Mike Bloomberg; Brooklyn Parks Commissioner Jules Spiegel; NYC Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe; David Yassky; and OSA’s Stephanie Thayer. Photo: BP Markowitz’s office Progress at McCarren yesterday – Mayor Bloomberg and others “broke ground” on the renovation of the McCarren Park Pool (work has been underway for…
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Rose Developer is “Bankrupt”
I use quotes in the headline here because contrary to the Brooklyn Paper’s headline, it’s not Isack Rosenberg himself who is bankrupt, but rather one of his other development projects. Rosenberg is trying to raise money by seekign a city rezoning of his lumber yard site from manufacturing to residential — a move that would…
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Rose Plaza: Then
Mollenhauer Sugar Refining Co. (between South 10th Street and Division Avenue) Source: King’s Views of Brooklyn, 1905 The photo above (click for a larger image) shows the Rose Plaza site as it looked 105 years ago. The building the “M” on the smokestack is the main refinery of the Mollenhauer Sugar Refining Company, and was…
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Broadway Triangle Vote Postponed
Juliet Linderman has the latest on the Broadway Triangle – which is that it is still stuck in Council subcommittees. This is datelined yesterday, so it is possible that there was a vote today (Thursday). If so, I haven’t seen anything yet. Basically, the Council is still negotiating with itself, choosing sides over the issue.…
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Forgotten by Time and Termites
Hyde & Co. Insurance Map of Brooklyn, 1898 Plate 34 Source: NYPL The Times profiles life in New York City’s wood-frame houses – a building type that definitely has its charms and pitfalls (I live in a 175-year-old wood house, so I know both). But while they are rare in Manhattan and brownstone Brooklyn, north…