Category: Noted
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Northside Pier – Weekends Only
So much for silver linings. Seems like it was only last week that the opening of the pier at Northside Piers* was blunting the impact of the seasonal closing of East River State Park. Then, suddenly, the pier was closed again. Now its reopened, but only on weekends (and presumably only until dusk). * And…
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$444.44
East River State Park – 4 January 2009 Photo: NAG Via NAG, above is a photo of Williamsurg’s East River State Park in hibernation. By keeping East River State Park open for geese only, the State saved $444.44 today. Below, via Flickr, is a photo of Empire-Fulton Ferry Ferry State Park in Dumbo – which…
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NAG Town Hall Organizing Meeting
Last night, NAG had a packed house at its town hall organizing meeting. The meeting drew about 150 area residents to hear about and discuss the critical issues facing Williamsburg and Greenpoint. In the latter part of the meeting, the crowd was broken up into groups to brainstorm about the issues they would like to…
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Williamsburg, NJ
Via commenter #4 on this Curbed post, here is a screen shot from the Northside Piers website. This is the purported “West View” from your luxury waterfront condominium (rental?) in hip-hip-hip Williamsburg. And what a view it is – the Empire State Building to the right, the Chrysler Building to the left. Which is pretty…
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Bike Rack
At Seven Berry, evidence of what happens when luxury condos are built without bike racks balconies. On a related note, Seven Berry is yet another example of the folly of glass houses. Most of the units on the upper floors facing Berry look to be occupied, and they are hodgepodge of window treatments. This was…
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Melrose Place
Photo from BushwickBK of 326 Melrose, used in here conjunction with a blog post commenting on a blog post at BushwickBK. Over at BushwickBK, Jeremy has gotten himself into a “hep of poop” – sorry, “HEP OF POOP” – over the posting of this picture. Seems the broker, one Janet Corona of Flushing, did not…
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Urban Green Needs a Dictionary, Too
Pretty soon, the marketers are just going to run out of words. Case in point – Urban Green (as far as I can tell, not a “green” project), which is the new development going up on North 5th and North 6th between Bedford and Berry. The broker’s website includes the requisite “Neighborhood” tab, which describes…