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The Landmarks Commission continues to pay attention to industrial architecture in North Brooklyn – they are getting ready to designate the Ulmer Brewery in Bushwick.

The Northside… has firmly entered the Age of the Condo

The Times gives the Northside the “Living In” treatment.

[Such] a mixed-use development requires a creative massing concept for the overall design.

Creative, I’m sure. We’ll see if its any good. With Duane Reade as an anchor tenant (14,000 sf!), a certain amount of skepticism is warranted. Duane Reade has an uncanny knack for making the shiniest, newest retail space look dumpy and worn out. At least Kellog’s will have a compatible neighbor.

Caroline has lunch at Cono’s.

(So much for optimistic theories.)

Greenpoint-Williamsburg is one of a handful of outer-borough neighborhoods that play host to waste transfer stations. These are the privately-owned places where city sanitation trucks and commercial garbage collectors dump all their loads — 50,000 tons, every day — so that this trash can be placed in long-haul trucks and driven to distant landfills…

When [the City marine transfer stations open], city garbage trucks will no longer trundle through Greenpoint-Williamsburg to drop off their loads at private waste transfer facilities. But commercial garbage haulers, servicing the city’s businesses, will still be making those same runs. The bulk of the city’s garbage — 38,000 tons a day — is commercial waste, primarily from Manhattan. That trash will still be headed for the outer boroughs, before going to landfills… There’s no plan to divert that stuff to the city’s new marine waste transfer stations.

A big turnout to protest HPD’s cut in anti-displacement funds for North Brooklyn. The funding was one of the benefits promised in the 2005 rezoning. The zoning itself has happened, but many of the promised “points of agreement” (put in place to soften the impact of the rezoning itself) have not been implemented.

And what is up with Eagle’s quotation marks around “huge”? Maybe their reporters should stick to “reporting”?

Big Sky Brooklyn takes a walk through East Williamsburg’s IBZ and comes back with some great photos.

Is Studio B on the block?

The Times does an editorial on the murder of José Sucuzhañay.

The City Concealed: Newtown Creek from Thirteen.org on Vimeo.

The City Concealed is a new project from Channel 13. Its a blog of sorts that takes in-depth looks at obscure or unknown places in the city. The first installment is this video on Newtown Creek. Its very well done, includes a lot of great old photos and maps, and is, well, kind of gross.