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May 18, 2009
As enforcement of building rules has stepped up in recent years, the city has issued hundreds of millions of dollars in fines to developers and contractors; unfortunately, most of it has gone uncollected. Just last year, the Department of Buildings...
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September 2, 2008
Since we last looked at 339 Greene Avenue in Bedford Stuyvesant, the new residential development has risen from four stories to its final height of 12 stories. The slow-moving project will ultimately contain 57 units. (Anyone know how many...
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March 31, 2008
Only the worsening real estate market can save the former Deliverance Evangelicalistic Center now. With the dreaded MMG sign already posted though, the die appears to be cast for this beautiful old two-story brick commercial building at 785 Dekalb...
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December 10, 2007
It's been a few months since we checked in with the construction headache at 339 Greene Avenue. While the demolition process (courtesy of MMG) was a complete disaster with safety and quality of life complaints out the wazoo, we...
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October 23, 2007
Something's afoot at the corner of Franklin Avenue and Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights. The one-story commercial building that stood on the site for years is toast—but no plans have been filed yet for the building that will rise...
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August 15, 2007
When 18-20 Jackson Place collapsed last Wednesday, the day's historic storm was just the straw that broke the camel's back. According to area residents, the building's owner, Mark Zeldin, had been neglecting the three-family walk-up since purchasing the property...
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August 3, 2007
339 Greene Avenue has been a mess since the get-go. Joseph Tyrnauer of WT Construction is proceeding with plans to build a 12-story, 125-foot-high tower on the site, an effort that neighbors and politicians tried unsuccessfully to derail last...
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March 19, 2007
There's a huge development underway on Greene Avenue between Classon and Franklin. The lot's a biggie — 160 feet of street frontage — and the building will be a not-insignificant 12 stories high. We haven't seen any designs yet,...
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September 26, 2006
We were making a beer run pilgrimmage to Greenwood Heights on Saturday when we got an eyeful of the Issac Katan building rising at 162 16th Street. Located between 4th and 5th Avenues, this was supposed to be the...
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August 29, 2006
Following the model of development activism honed by the residents of the South Slope and Greenwood Heights, a group calling itself the Clinton Hill/Bed-Stuy North Neighborhood Improvement Association has been getting the word out about its nascent campaign to...
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August 7, 2006
Haven't we seen this movie before? The contractor responsible for bringing you countless worker injuries and collateral structural damage--Staten Island-based contractors MMG--is at it again, this time on the Clinton Hill/Bed Stuy border. While they haven't even started construction...
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July 17, 2006
It seems like every time you open the paper (metaphorically, I suppose) there's a story about an injured construction at some development or another. This time, a worker at 3360 Shore Parkway (GMAP) fell through a hole and down an...
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April 27, 2006
The second property to be debated at the BSA hearing on Tuesday was 182 15th Street, the massively out-of-scale development being attempted by Isaac Katan in league first with Henry Radusky (Bricolage) and now Robert Scarano. Once again, the...
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November 9, 2005
This week in the Brooklyn Rail, Greenwood Heights homeowner Aaron Brashear describes the experiences over the past year that led him to found Concerned Citizens of Greenwood Heights: Unholy development alliances have formed: Brooklyn mega-developer Isaac Katan teams with architect-of-ill-repute...
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