Tag: gentrification
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Greenpoint is Over
“MarieBelle’s flagship store [is] in New York’s famous Soho District […and it] has a rustic-style Cacao Market in trendy Greenpoint, Brooklyn”. Based on this press release, I think that we can put February 19, 2019 down in the calendar as the date that Greenpoint officially jumped the gentrification shark.
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CB4 Might Have Approved Rezoning of Rheingold Brewery Against the Law
http://bushwickdaily.com/2013/08/community-board-4-might-have-approved-rezoning-of-rheingold-brewery-against-the-law/
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Atlantic’s Credibility Crisis
Wow – Atlantic Cities let someone with no clue about development in Brooklyn write about development in Brooklyn. The basic premise of the article is that zoning (both use and FAR limits) is making housing more expensive by restricting the amount of new housing that can be constructed. In other words, the classic libertarian argument…
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Williamsburg Home Prices up 174% Since 2004
http://www.propertyshark.com/Real-Estate-Reports/2012/12/27/booming-neighborhoods-in-brooklyn/
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More on the Sweater Factory Lofts
I linked briefly to the New York Times article on the ongoing Sweater Factory saga. Herewith, some more thoughts: “It’s not crime and disinvestment that’s the enemy of the working-class jobs here anymore,” said Leah Archibald, the director of the East Williamsburg Valley Industrial Development Corporation, a nonprofit entity that administers the Industrial Business Zone.…
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As Brooklyn Gentrifies, Some Neighborhoods are Left Behind
In its continues discovery of this place called Brooklyn, the Times learns that this is a big, diverse borough that (contra Brian Williams) does not have artisinal cheese on every street. “Here, everything remains the same,” [said Theresa Scavo, chairwoman of CB15 in southern Brooklyn]. “They don’t want Trader Joe’s. They don’t want sidewalks crowded…
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Wythe Hotel
80 Wythe Theobald Englehardt (1900) Morris Adjmi Architects (2012) Photo: brooklyn11211 Matt Chaban in the Observer: This was, is and will be the greatest thing Williamsburg has ever seen. It is the pinnacle, the acme, the end. The story of gentrification, at least in this oft-buzzed about corner of Brooklyn, is over — checked at…
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338 Berry Tenants to be Evicted?
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/burg_has_art_attack_cB6biSayA1jif5dSOcD5jN#ixzz1sJ5Y8bii
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Stapleton is the New Williamsburg
Correction: March 18, 2012 In an earlier version of this article, a timeline misidentified a Williamsburg diner in a photo from 2000. The restaurant was Relish, not Miss Williamsburg Diner.
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Domino for Sale
In news that should surprise no one (but is surprising nonetheless), the Observer reports that the Domino site is on the block. Apparently, the Katan Group and their development partner CPC Resources have been shopping all or part of it to potential buyers. A spokesman for CPCR told the Observer: We are pursuing various options…