Photo: via FreeWilliamsburg So Duane Reade has come to Bedford Avenue and everyone is up in arms. Supporters like Shari Lind (if she exists) think that we need more Duane Reades, Dunkin' Donuts and other chain stores, all in the...
Weidmann Cooperage 80 Wythe Avenue (photo: WPA) The Wall Street Journal reports that Two Trees Management is looking for federal tax-exempt financing for its hotel project at 80 Wythe Avenue. Two Trees, the DUMBO-based development firm, bought the former...
Does TNR Have the Funding to Build Greenpoint Hospital?
The Daily News reports this morning that TNS Development - the group that won the bid from the City to build affordable housing at the Greenpoint Hospital site - may not have the funding lined up to do the project....
In the Greenpoint Gazette, Juliet Linderman recaps the current status of the Broadway Triangle rezoning. The judge hearing the case has continued the stay on the project in light of the ongoing investigations of Ridgewood Bushwick Senior Services Corp., one...
Photo: Joel Raskin for Outside Magazine. Outside magazine, on the waterfront: The next three hours constituted the single most thrilling ride I've ever had in New York—no small boast in the land of the runaway cab. Anthony raced us past...
Gotham Gazette has an excellent piece out about the changes to "fair share" proposed under the City's Charter revision. In a nutshell, it will give neighborhoods like North Brooklyn (home to five or six City Sanitation garages, about half of...
The City's draft waterfront plan calls new public access at Williamsburg Bridge Park (5) and the former BRT power plant site (6). The Department of City Planning has released its draft comprehensive waterfront plan (aka Vision 2020), and it...
City Has NOT Bailed on Greenpoint Hospital Developer
11 Broadway (the latest model) Photo: GreenbergFarrow via Crain's Talk about out of context. In the course of an article on L+M's new proposal for 11 Broadway, the Brooklyn Paper manages to drag up a three-year-old quote of mine on...
Primary Battles Pit Upstarts Against Democratic Party Kingmaker Vito Lopez
Domino Sugar Refinery Photo: Harlan Erskine Photographer Harlan Erskine has posted some beautiful photos of the Domino Sugar site that he took for the recent L Magazine article, Williamsburg's Last Domino (a good read itself). My favorite is above, but...
The memory issue that was wreaking havoc with the commenting here has been fixed. You should be able to leave comments without getting cryptic error messages....
Is Greenpoint Hospital Plan on Hold or Not?
Goldman Arm Revives Williamsburg Project
Greenline (which is not online) is reporting that the Department of Housing Preservation and Development has suspended the redevelopment of the Greenpoint Hospital site in order to review its RFP process. In April, the agency had awarded the development rights...
A New Start-Up Workspace for Williamsburg
Capital New York - a new online magazine - continues to impress on the content side - this time with a look at why Williamsburg is becoming the meat eating capital of NYC. The article covers the history of Peter...
349 Metropolitan's courtyard mural Photo: Curbed Curbed has photos of the now completed (and now for rent) 349 Metropolitan Avenue (a 11211 favorite over the years). The recladded exterior of the building is a huge improvement, though the building...
As I speculated recently, the Brooklyn Paper has confirmed that at least one of the RFPs issued recently by the City's EDC is for the construction of a ferry landing at North 6th Street. Starting sometime around January 2012, residents...
Two new projects on North 8th Street are coming online - an 8-unit rental building at 203 North 8th Street and a 9-unit condo (The Bedford) next door at 205. Both are touted for their proximity to McCarren Park, the...
It has been discussed for ages, but it looks as though the City is really moving ahead with its plans to expand the East River ferry service to all of North Brooklyn. In addition to the action at India and...
Stiles Properties' proposed Java Street (bottom) and India Street piers, as seen in a 2009 rendering. Source: Architects Newspaper Last month, the City's Economic Development Corporation issued an RFP for the redevelopment of the Java Street pier. This is...
Titus Andronicus, Bad Credit, No Credit and Bottle Up & Go are doing a benefit concert for NAG this Wednesday at Glasslands. Tickets are only $15, and there are still a (very) few left. Get 'em while you can....
The Times is out with a quick article on Karl Fisher and the Brooklyn condo boom. Fisher (along with Bob Scarano and a handful of lesser lights) are certainly responsible for changing the face of North Brooklyn. But with "only"...