Tag: waterfront
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State Won’t Fund Kayak Center on Newtown Creek
The Newtown Creek Boathouse proposal, which was the top-ranked project for funding under the State-administered fund established to mitigate the City’s ongoing pollution of the creek during the construction of the Newtown Creek Waste Management plant may run aground because of the Federal designation of the creek as a Superfund site. Got that?
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Reversal on Plans for Williamsburg Park
The Daily News reports today that the City is reneging on one of the key components of the 2005 Greenpoint/Williamsburg rezoning – the 28-acre Bushwick Inlet Park. The park – which would straddle Greenpoint and Williamsburg – was the centerpiece of the City’s open space plan under the rezoning. In the six years since the…
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Rose Plaza Now a Conversion?
Rose Plaza: Not Coming Soon to a Waterfront Near You?? Brownstoner reports this morning that 484 Kent Avenue has a DOB permit to convert the top two floors of the building to 30 residential units. The ground floor will remain as warehouse use. Presumably, this means that the grand plans for Rose Plaza – and…
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Sizing Up the East River Ferry
Like everyone else in the known universe (or so it seems), I’ve been riding the East River Ferry a lot this week. I was a long-time user of the NY Water Taxi, which ran the East River commuter route until the beginning of May1, and I plan on using the ferry when I can to…
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Edge Selling More Units
http://therealdeal.com/newyork/articles/the-edge-by-jeffrey-levine-chairman-of-douglaston-development-selling-more-units-than-any-other-nyc-building-including-be-schermerhorn
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Williamsburg, Rocked
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/29/nyregion/gentrification-brings-discord-to-williamsburg-brooklyn.html
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Bushwick Inlet Park Update
Bushwick Inlet Park – Someday. Curbed has a post today headlined “Long-Delayed Bushwick Inlet Park Now Planning for 2012“. What they mean is that the big pile of dirt on Kent Avenue between North 9th and North 10th Streets will become the headquarters for North Brooklyn’s Parks operations will open in “winter 2012”. Curbed mistakenly…
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New East River Ferry Launches June 13
East River ferry service map As reported in the Brooklyn Paper this morning (and on Brownstoner), the new East River ferry service is set to begin service in mid June. I met with the operators of the new service a week or so ago, and am very excited about the new service. As you may…
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The Day the Music Was Turned Down (But Not Really)
http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/34/18/wb_concerts_2011_5_6_bk.html
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City Sues Gutman Over Street-Blocking Fence
http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/34/16/wb_noblefencesuit_2011_04_22_bk.html