Tag: southside
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Prime Northside Rents $1,600 Higher Than Neighborhood’s Southside
http://gothamist.com/2013/05/06/prime_williamsburg_rents_1600_highe.php
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Schizo Skyline
Stephen Jacob Smith is back, this time arguing that Two Trees’ Domino plan is somehow flawed because the upland zoning in Williamsburg is not dense enough. Where to begin – again? But despite the best efforts of SHoP and Two Trees, the plan does not succeed in aping the natural parabolic shape of an organic…
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Williamsburg Slab Hotel “Unlikely”
http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/34/45/dtg_hotelproposal_2011_11_11_bk.html
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Southside Firehouse to Close?
First they came for the teachers, now it’s firefighters (or at least firehouses) that are on the budgetary chopping block. There are 20 firehouses on the City’s list of potential firehouse closings released today, and 40% of them are in Brooklyn. Three of the eight Brooklyn houses slated for closing are in North Brooklyn: Ladder…
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A Better Look at Triangle Court
Triangle Court (proposed) Architect: KOH Architecture Photo: KOH Architecture via Curbed Yesterday, Curbed posted a better image of Triangle Court. Here it is in all it’s glory. The building will occupy the former gas station site on the western half of the triangle formed by Grand, Keap and Borinquen. The future of the rest of…
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First Look at Triangle Court
Triangle Court, proposed design Architect: KOH Architecture Photo: nycmayorsoffice Via Azi Paybarah, I came across this photo on the Mayor’s flickr stream (and also learned that the Mayor had a flickr stream). Azi (and others) seem to be interested in the political ramifications of the photo (that’s Vito Lopez’s head cropped out at the top…
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PS 84 Revisited
I am way behind on a lot of things, but high on the list is linking to this excellent Capital NY piece on the past and future of P.S. 84. Written by Greg Hanlon (an article Matt Chaban called the “first good article [he’s] read about gentrification in a while“. It covers old ground –…