Category: Noted
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Construction of the Williamsburg Bridge, 1896-1903
via retronaut.com A Retronaut.com tour of the construction of the Williamsburg Bridge. Worth a few minutes of your time.
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Douglaston to Develop Third Toll Tower
The Wall Street Journal (via Brownstoner) reports that Douglaston Development, the developer of the Edge condos, has bought a vacant tower site next door at Toll Brother’s Northside Piers development. Douglaston plans to erect a 40-story luxury rental on the site. Both Douglaston and Toll have sites for third towers on their properties – Douglaston…
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Tweak to the Whole Foods Williamsburg Rumor?
Brownstoner, citing an a direct but unnamed source, is reporting that the rumored Whole Foods at Kent and Metropolitan is not going to be at the Monster Island, but instead on the other side of Kent Avenue. The site in question runs along Kent from Metropolitan to North 3rd, the open lot on the corner…
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Nighthawk on ArchDaily
Nighthawk Cinema and Apartments Caliper Studio, architects The Nighthawk Cinema building gets a nice feature (and a lot of nice photos) on ArchDaily.
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Quadraid Fills In
Quadriad’s North 3rd Street infill Another data point for the continued growth of construction in Williamsburg – Quadriad has (rather quickly) moved forward on the infill portion of its North 3rd Street development. The Bedford Avenue piece finished some time ago, and the Berry section is about to come online. Now the in-between bit is…
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Williamsburg Charter High School on Probation
NY1 [via Brownstoner] is reporting that the Williamsburg Charter High School has been put on probation by the Department of Education “for a string of violations”, including “illicit spending” and “misallocating funds”, all of which has left the school with $4 million in debt. According to the Times’ SchoolBook site, which originally broke the story…
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Liu Looking Into Greenpoint Shelter Plans
Things seem to be heating up over 400 McGuinness Boulevard, the loft building that keeps trying to be a homeless shelter. The Brooklyn Eagle reported last week that a “hotel developer” had acquired the property. The quotation marks are there because, while the developer does build hotels, he also builds a lot of homeless shelters…
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111 Kent for Rent
Brownstoner reports that 111 Kent Avenue, the Michael Muroff-designed condo at the prime corner of North 7th and Kent Avenue, is ramping up its sales effort as a rental. The project, which began life as a condo development, had been stalled for ages. Now it is back, as a “boutique rental residence” (boutique would be…
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Movin’ Out
Phil DePaolo may or may not be the mayor of Williamsburg, but he has certainly been a fixture on the neighborhood activism scene. And now he’s leaving town – moving to the suburbs for better schools. I worked with Phil on any number of issues in the neighborhood, didn’t always agree with him 100%, but…