Category: Noted
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Did the City Miscalculate Value of Bushwick Inlet Park?
Short answer – yes. Yolane Almanzar of the fledgling New York World has a very thorough rundown of why Williamsburg and Greenpoint may never see a park at Bushwick Inlet. The article is mostly about how grossly the city underestimated the value of the properties – by an order of magnitude, as it turns out.…
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Oh Look, @archdaily Fell for the Oppenheim Hotel
It looks like Oppenheim Architecture + Design has been sending out more press releases about the “international competition” to design the hotel for the vacant site next to the Williamsburgh Savings Bank. In the past few days, ArchDaily and other sites have suddenly picked up on this month-old “story”. Like I said before, the design…
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Surf’s Up at Slick’s
I tweeted a week or so ago about the transformation of Slick’s old place into the new home of Mollusk Surf Shop. Brownstoner has a another view of the cleaned up storefront here. I can’t imagine a better store to replace Slick’s – hopefully they’ll be taking up all the street parking with used surfboards.
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Brooklyn Brewery WAREHOUSE Sold
Regarding the earlier confusion (mine and others) as to exactly which part of the Brooklyn Brewery recently sold, I received the following from the Brewery’s PR: BROOKLYN (29 Nov 2011)—Recent reports have misleadingly indicated that The Brooklyn Brewery building in Williamsburg, Brooklyn has been sold. The Brooklyn Brewery operations are housed in two locations: one…
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Signal Problems
How was your commute today? According to the MTA, the software problems (caused by the weekend work that shut down the line all day Saturday and Sunday??) that ruined your morning ride to work are still going on this evening. In fact, it’s so bad that @NYC_L_trains hasn’t even bothered tweeting its daily “L train…
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Mille Bornes, Curated
Rules of the road.via Codex 99 Codex 99 on the classic French card game Mille Bornes. The graphics on the original (mass-produced) sets from the 60s and 70s are wonderful, but I’d never seen the original (hand-lettered!) sets from the 50s nor the very abstract “edition spécial” of 1960 that Codex 99 found. In a…
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Tower Day #2: Klein May Move Forward in Greenpoint
Greenpoint Waterfront: The Future (Rendering by City Planning) More tower news (it’s Greenpoint’s turn)! Matt Chaban in the Observer has a piece on the imminent launch of phase one (at least) of the 10-tower project at the very north end of the Greenpoint waterfront. The project would be completely as of right, thanks to the…
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Tower Day #1: Williamsburgh Savings Bank Hotel Tower
WilliamsburgHotel, proposed The Architects Newspaper has the winning renderings from an “international design competition” for a hotel on the parking lot to the west of the landmarked Williamsburgh Savings Bank, which look pretty amazing in a 40-story sort of way. Brownstoner wonders how theoretical this project is, and the answer is probably “extremely”. The developer…
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Brooklyn is the Coolest City on the Planet
GQ validates our lifestyle choices by calling out Brooklyn as the coolest city on earth for its food. Even Alan Richman is on board – proclaiming the chef’s table at Brooklyn Fare to be the “most exciting restaurant in New York“. Meanwhile, Fucked in Park Slope is not entirely impressed (and most of their comments…
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BushwickBK Shuts Down
BushwickBK, last night: For many reasons, it’s not working out. It takes too much money and time to do this, so BushwickBK is shutting down for some period of time, and possibly forever. Turns out, sadly, we were never in the pockets of The Developers ™ or anyone else. The site and all its resources…