North 11th Street Rising
After playing tennis in McCarren Park on Sunday and hitting the Renegade Crafts Fair, we noticed this building going up at 178 North 11th Stret for the first time. Anyone know anything about it? GMAP P*Shark
After playing tennis in McCarren Park on Sunday and hitting the Renegade Crafts Fair, we noticed this building going up at 178 North 11th Stret for the first time. Anyone know anything about it? GMAP P*Shark
It’s a shame, they are developing 3 lots right there and putting up 2 6 story buildings within the zoning restrictions (including what will be a really oddly shapped building on the n10th street side, it’s a long narrow lot). They are all prefab housing that’s being put up by a crane, it will be interesting to see if they sell with the glut of better housing coming on the market along mccarren park.
Brownstoner plays tennis. What’s next golf, and a move to Westchester?
Well, “Williamsburg” may have shifted south over time, but the proper geographical boundaries are the numbered streets which were laid out between Division Avenue (the old Brooklyn city limits) and Bushwick Inlet. The inlet represented the dividing line between the village/town/city of Williamsburg and Greenpoint. The tennis courts are actually on fill in the middle of what was once Bushwick Creek.
Today, the Hasidic section south of Division is routinely called Williamsburg, but just as with the southward shift of Greenpoint, that is all pretty recent. Psychically, I have always thought of the south end of McCarren to be the Greenpoint/Williamsburg border, with McCarren as a shared no-man’s land between the two…
I’ve got to chime in on Guiles comment;
I moved to Williamsburg in 1979 (sold out in 2003-thank you very much) but I remember very well that way back then folks tried to stretch the boundries of Greenpoint Southward, hoping they could say they lived in Greenpoint rather than Williamsburg. Who woulda thunk it?
Haldne, the neighborhood of Greenpoint has traditionally be bounded to the south by N. 7th st. though the influx of hipsters tend the carry the “williamsburg” moniker whereever they go.
3:25 – don’t be stealing our courts! The tennis courts are between N13 and N14, which is Williamsburg, not Greenpoint.
The correct address is 270 North 11th, between Bedford & Driggs. This was filed as a variance before the rezoning, but I suppose is now (mopstly) as of right. The permit lists the architect as Gene Kaufman, and the building as a 6-stories and 28 units.
Its across the street from the giant empty lot, which was given its own special zoning. The lot was zoned higher to compensate for supposedly onerous remediation issues – it used to have a lead paint factory.
Tennis courts are technically in Greenpoint, not in Williamsburg.
This is the one right next to the giant empty lot on the northern end of bedford, before you get to the park.
and while im at it, what’s with the giant empty lot?