Wednesday evening, I’ll be introducing a panel discussion at MAS on the reuse of industrial buildings in NYC (for industrial purposes and otherwise). The panel should be very interesting (even if the introduction is not).
The Esquire Building suspends its Domino saving for some Obama advocacy.
Two guys got together and decided to create a “Williamsburg and Greater Greenpoint” tote bag. The map on the bag calls out the Russian Orthodox Cathedral at North 12th and Driggs as “the Mosque”. I wasn’t going to bother linking to this inanity until I noticed that the bag’s designers were defending their mistake by saying that “*everyone* calls it that”.
Everyone who? Does anyone know anyone who calls this building “the Mosque”? (Or at least anyone who remembers this building with green domes who calls this building “the Mosque”?) Or are these people just so unhip that they can’t tell the difference between Russian architecture (you know, onion domes, the Kremlin and what not) and Islamic architecture (minarets, Hagia Sophia, minarets).
Williamsburg Is Dead calls out examiner.com for its rave review of a long-closed closed restaurant.
To paraphrase Yogi Berra, no one goes there anymore, its closed.
Shop local.
While the median price for a Brooklyn apartment dropped 5.6% last quarter (vs. same quarter 2007), prices in Greenpoint and Williamsburg managed to increase 6.9%.
Still, this does not mean that the laws of gravity (or supply and demand) have been suspended in North Brooklyn.
Sunday afternoon, Domino developer CPC is opening the site to the public. The wharf area, which is slated to become a waterfront esplanade under CPC’s rezoning plan, will be open to the public from 2 pm to 6 pm.
Not coincidentally, CPC’s rezoning application is about to certified by City Planning. Which means that the real public review for CPC’s proposed massive rezoning of the Domino site will probably begin in early December.
In the meantime, whether you are pro, con or indifferent on the Domino rezoning, this Sunday may be your only opportunity to see the Domino site and enjoy some free hospitality.
