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October 9, 2009
After initially being listed at $850,000 last spring (when it was an Open House Pick), the four-story brick house at the southeast corner of Putnam Avenue and Irving Place in Clinton Hill sold last month for $695,000. The new...
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October 5, 2009
Admiral’s Row, the 19th-century, Second Empire-style officers' quarters at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, has been receiving attention from preservationists for some time now. The Fort Greene Association, for example, has been campaigning for at least four years to save these...
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July 28, 2009
So much for that momentum we wrote about a couple of weeks ago! Weak community support is threatening the viability of the new Malcom X Farmers Market within the first month of its life, according to an email being...
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July 10, 2009
With the fate of Admirals Row all but set in stone, the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp. moved ahead yesterday with its plans to find a developer to build a 40,000-square-foot supermarket and an additional 60,000 square feet of additional...
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June 19, 2009
One of the ten former officers residences along Flushing Avenue known as Admirals Row began collapsing from water damage yesterday, and the fire department was brought in for safety reasons to finish the job. Luckily for those concerned with preserving...
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June 16, 2009
One of the most enduring motifs in pattern is that of entwining foliage. Leaves and vines have been popular since the Egyptians, and a study of ornament shows a complex history of intertwining vines and foliage of different species, often...
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May 28, 2009
Despite the best efforts of preservationists, who generated a number of proposals detailing how the Admiral's Row structures could be maintained while also allowing for the construction of a supermarket, most of the historic buildings on the Navy Yard...
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May 27, 2009
The Municipal Art Society has put together the video above in advance of a meeting representatives from the group will attend tonight to advocate for the preservation of the Admiral's Row buildings at the Navy Yard. The organization, which...
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May 13, 2009
Almost five and a half years after construction began on Flushing Avenue, normal traffic patterns were restored yesterday. At some point in during the afternoon, eastbound traffic resumed in front of the Admirals Row and flyers announcing the return...
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May 8, 2009
At the Real Estate Roundtable on Tuesday, Red Apple chief (and Gristedes owner) John Catsimatidis revealed some interesting (if you're into that kind of thing) details about his development at 202 Myrtle (currently at risk of becoming the most...
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April 20, 2009
Ringling Circus to Raise a Tent in Coney Island [NY Times] W.P.A. Projects Left Their Stamp on the Region [NY Times] Send In the Clowns, Coney Island-Style [NY Times] Man Sells in P. Heights, Buys in Midtown [NY Times]...
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April 10, 2009
Yesterday was a big day at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, with Mayor Bloomberg and numerous other officials in attendance to cheer a number of initiatives that have taken form or been announced in recent months like the Perry Building,...
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April 1, 2009
We wish this were an April Fool's joke but it's not. Despite protracted efforts by the preservation world and a number of alternative proposals, one of the most important pieces of Brooklyn's history may be destined for destruction. According...
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February 18, 2009
Photo by Gothamist New Restaurants for Red Hook Gothamist asks: "Will Van Brunt Street be Home to a New Restaurant Row?" It's a question that the press has been asking for a long time, but now Gothamist shares photos...
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February 4, 2009
Over the weekend, Gothamist's Jake Dobkin photographed the interior of the Admiral's Row houses inside the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The shots are incredible so we encourage you to click on each one above to see the full-size version. We...
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October 30, 2008
Brooklyn's industrial waterfront was named one of the 11 most endangered places in America by the National Trust for Historic Preservation last year. "A Civil War-era graving dock in Red Hook was paved over and is now a parking...
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October 22, 2008
Every day this week, we're going to count down Brooklyn's Top 50* most influential people who have shaped Brooklyn neighborhoods by building new structures, preserving older ones, influencing property values and quality of life, speaking for thousands, or changing the...
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October 21, 2008
Every day this week, we're going to count down Brooklyn's Top 50* most influential people who have shaped Brooklyn neighborhoods by building new structures, preserving older ones, influencing property values and quality of life, speaking for thousands, or changing the...
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August 20, 2008
Earlier today, the Municipal Art Society presented six different plans to the U.S. National Guard that would allow for both the preservation of Admiral's Row (which includes 10 19th-century houses and a timber shed from the 1830s) and the...
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July 24, 2008
Lefferts House Wagon. Photo by heightsfidelity. Intriguing Loft Condos Between Myrtle and Park [Clinton Hill Blog] Tour B'klyn Community Gardens This Saturday [Flatbush Gardener] Grimaldi's Pizzeria Seized By Taxman [Gothamist] Construction at Old Jimmy's Deli [Kensington Blog] Images From...
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July 23, 2008
Following up on last December's public meeting, the National Guard held another informational forum last night at Borough Hall to solicit public input about the future use of the site; since the Guard has already determined that the row...
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July 22, 2008
Tonight the long-awaited follow-up to last December's public hearing on the future of Admirals Row takes place at Borough Hall. All we can say in advance of the meeting is that we hope that the spirit of creativity and compromise...
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July 18, 2008
Pratt Institute architect Brent Porter and his students have designed a plan for Admiral's Row that would involve preserving the 10 old buildings and also constructing a supermarket and a parking lot. The design would result in the restoration...
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July 16, 2008
Coucilmember Letitia James has modified her position on the preservation of Admiral's Row, the group of ten historic houses along Flushing Avenue, according to an article in The Brooklyn Paper. James had previously advocated razing the structures to make...
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April 23, 2008
Hot Nuts, Crown Heights. Photo by alison_will. City’s Buildings Chief Resigns as Outcry on Accidents Grows [NY Times] Officer Killed in Possible Brooklyn Robbery [NY Times] Geometrics: A Couple Photos of Admirals' Row [NY Times] Will Lancaster Resignation Hurt...
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April 16, 2008
The Army National Guard held its first consulting meeting yesterday on the transfer of the Admiral's Row houses to the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation. National Guard spokesman Rick Breitenfeldt said more than 30 groups were represented. "We have...
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March 13, 2008
Urban guerilla photographer Nathan Kensinger recently found his way into the Admirals Row houses and came out with some interesting photos and observations: However, some of the buildings are in remarkably good condition. Their staircases, light fixtures, plasterwork, shelves,...
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March 5, 2008
Finally, an article in the mainstream media about Admiral's Row that considers the possibility that the decision over the future of the site isn't an all-or-nothing one, something that the blogs have been saying for some time now. Per...
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February 26, 2008
The Fort Greene Association spent much of its monthly meeting last night promoting the position (which we share) that Admirals' Row is a "valuable historic asset" that can and should be preserved without having to forego the creation of...
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February 25, 2008
Yesterday’s Times article on redevelopment plans for Admirals' Row more or less presented the issue at hand in the same old black-and-white terms: Either the 10 dilapidated 19th century rowhouses behind the Farragut Houses get demolished and a supermarket...
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February 25, 2008
FGA Meeting The Fort Greene Association holds a general meeting today. In conjunction with the Fort Greene Park Conservancy, the FGA is revealing plans for the Centennial Celebration of Fort Greene Park, which is scheduled for November 14-16, 2008....
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February 13, 2008
The Tillary Street Associated's days may be numbered. The supermarket's lease is up soon and, according to a tipster, the Concord Village Co-operative Board is looking for a replacement. This news adds another layer of uncertainty to the Downtown...
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January 18, 2008
The controversial plan to demolish ten 19th century houses owned by the federal government in order to build a supermarket at the Navy Yard has been "delayed indefinitely," according to an article in this week’s Brooklyn Paper. Federal officials...
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January 17, 2008
Greenpoint/Williamsburg Parks Meeting Today, the Greenpoint Williamsburg Association for Parks & Planning hosts a town hall meeting at Warsaw, the Polish National Home, to discuss parks and waterfront development. The meeting will provide updates on the status of open spaces...
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January 11, 2008
An article in Monday's Brooklyn Eagle ostensibly about Myrtle Avenue may have had more significance for the debate currently underway about the future of Admiral's Row, the row of 10 historic but deteriorating houses at the southwest corner of...
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December 21, 2007
In the Brooklyn Eagle this week, Kristin Leahy, manager of the National Guard Bureau Cultural Resources Program, sought to clarify the federal government's role in the potential preservation of Admiral's Row: The buildings along Admiral’s Row are both eligible...
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December 14, 2007
Another little birdie emailed us with some of the costs that the consultants hired by the Feds are projecting for restoring the Admiral's Row houses. As you can see from the chart, there were some later additions to the...
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December 13, 2007
A tipster who must have a day job as a stenographer passed along some highlights from the "Assessment of Admiral's Row" report that was prepared by Beardsley Design Associates and Crawford & Stearns for the National Guard and was...
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December 12, 2007
For an event that was whose main purpose seemed to be to present the destruction of Officers' row as a fait accompli, last night's public hearing had just the opposite effect. A study by the Army Corps of Engineers...
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December 12, 2007
Borough Hall Station in the '80s. Photo by Coverage Photography. Credit Crisis Prompts Fed to Roll Back Rates Again [NY Times] Wait Until 2010, Nets Say of Brooklyn Arena [NY Times] Doctoroff Looks Back on Atlantic Yards [NY Observer]...
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December 7, 2007
With a large, and potentially contentious, public hearing about the future of Officers' (or Admirals', if you like—and while we're at it, why can't anyone agree on where the apostrophe should go or whether it's needed at all?) Row...
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December 6, 2007
Crown Heights. Photo by nrvlowdown A Lot of Digging, Shaking at 340 Court in Carroll Gardens [Gowanus Lounge] Admiral's Row Issue Makes the Rounds in Brooklyn [Curbed] Destination Dumbo: An Evening of Cheer Tonight [Dumbo NYC] Brooklyn's Best Bust...
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November 15, 2007
Robert Goldstrom Opening Reception Today, Underbridge Pictures hosts an opening reception for new work by Brooklyn painter Robert Goldstrom. His third annual exhibition at Underbridge Pictures includes oil paintings of Williamsburgh Savings Bank, Admiral's Row in Brooklyn Navy Yard,...
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November 9, 2007
As the Daily News noted yesterday, Wednesday's announcement of the preservation of the Navy Yard's Building 92 in conjunction with the creation of its $15 million Historical Center was bittersweet news for preservationists in light of the seemingly inevitable...
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February 14, 2007
Until the Navy Base at Wallabout Bay was closed in 1967, if you were a married officer, you got a chance to shack up in one of the ten historic row houses looking out over Flushing Avenue (drawn here...
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February 2, 2007
Admirals Row. Photo by silk cut. Spitzer Concerned About Starrett City Sale [NY Times] City Agencies Subsidizing Slumlords [NY Times] Jeffries, Green Against Barclays Deal [NY Times] Moses and The Mighty City [NY Sun] Resistance to Walmart in Brooklyn...
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October 25, 2006
Selling the public a giant shovel-ful of b.s., Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp. President and CEO Andrew Kimball yesterday claimed that he has"no option" but to tear down the ten historic residences for naval officers that line Flushing Avenue...
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October 17, 2006
Admirals Row, Brooklyn Navy Yard. Photo by Calla Lillie Congress Members Seek Action on Newtown Creek [NY Times] Feds Scrutinize Title Insurers [NY Times] How to Beat Parking Tickets [NY Post] FTC Targets Real Estate Brokers [CNN/Money] Friday Plumbing...
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October 12, 2006
Before the movie studios and office buildings, before Admiral's Row was allowed to go to pot, the Brooklyn Navy Yard really was used by the Navy for, among other things, building ships. In this footage from 1958, the aircraft...
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March 27, 2006
We were driving through Cobble Hill on Sunday morning when and had to pull over to take a moment to admire this beautiful limestone and brick mansion building at the corner of Amity and Henry that is now the...
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October 4, 2005
Threshhold, Brooklyn. Photo by Forota My House, My Piggy Bank [NY Times] Heath and Michelle at Home [NY Post] Highest Hopes for Green Roofs [NY Daily News] Setback for Newton Creek [NY Daily News] Zoning Squeeze in Northern B'kln...
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August 22, 2005
Back in July, a plan by the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation to accelerate the demolition of the houses on Admiral's Row gained momentum, with backing coming from Community Board 2 and the Brooklyn borough president. But a group...
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July 15, 2005
The City's planned acquisition of 34 acres of the Brooklyn Navy Yard has put several of its most historic structures in peril. The seven remaining houses on Admiral's Row (partially visible from Flushing Avenue) are located on a 6-acre...
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May 24, 2005
Question: Do you have a favorite townhouse architectural style? Answer: People often ask me that question, and it’s a tougher one that you might realize. To me, it’s similar to asking a parent which one of their children they love...
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