City Planning Hears Application for Last Building of Ongoing Broadway Triangle Project

This is kind of amazing. The original ULURP review for Broadway Triangle was in 2009, and community meetings were in 2007 or 2008. Since then, it has gone through litigation and happily reconciliation, and now is getting built out. (By last, I assume they mean last affordable site.)

We do need to get developers to stop naming projects like they are on mews in Olde Nieuw Amsterdam – Bartlett Crossing? Please.

East Williamsburg, Queens

05/16/2013 | 1 Comment

PS71

PS 71, East Williamsburg, L. I.
Photo: via ebay
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Last week, Gothamist had some fun with a Kalmon Dolgin real estate listing that purported to be in East Williamsburg when it was in fact in Ridgewood, Queens.

I’m sure Kalmon Dolgin was just fluffing their listing, as Gothamist said, but, there is a bit of historical accuracy to the moniker. Historically, there was a village just over the Queens border that was called East Williamsburg (Long Island!), as the above postcard will attest. This was completely distinct from the enlarged area of the town (and later city) of Williamsburg east of Union Avenue, which was annexed to the original town of Williamsburg (west of Union) in 1835.

Bushwick Mall

Bushwick Daily has pictures from a Massey Knakal brochure marketing a proposed “Bushwick” Mall on Bogart Street in East Williamsburg. It’s not really clear if Massey Knakal is marketing the property (i.e., trying to entice someone to develop it) or if they are trying to market the project (i.e., someone is already planning to build this and is looking for tenants). Either way, this project seems to be more about the Bushwick Hotel than the Bushwick Mall.

East Williamsburg Foodways Tour

Urban Oyster, which runs some of the more intelligent tours in Brooklyn and beyond, is adding a “foodways” tour centered around Moore Street Market and the Latino foods around Graham Avenue.