Forgotten NY's Visit to East Williamsburg
The Forgotten NY crew set out on one of their group tours las month. Destination: East Williamsburg, a neighborhood whose boundaries not everyone can agree on. Forgotten NY proposes a clean solution: “Anything south of the BQE, north of Flushing Avenue, and east of Humboldt Street is East Willie,” writes Kevin, though he admits that…
The Forgotten NY crew set out on one of their group tours las month. Destination: East Williamsburg, a neighborhood whose boundaries not everyone can agree on. Forgotten NY proposes a clean solution: “Anything south of the BQE, north of Flushing Avenue, and east of Humboldt Street is East Willie,” writes Kevin, though he admits that there’s a reasonable argument to be made for making Maspeth Avene the northern border. Among other interesting finds on the walking tour was the Greenpoint Hospital. Built in 1914, the group of buildings in located on Maspeth between Kingsland, Jackson and Debevoise Avenues. These would make much better condos in our opinion than anything new that’s getting built in the area. Lots more good stuff on the link.
East Williamsburg Part I [Forgotten NY]
East of Humboldt? Don’t you mean west?
That area over there is very interesting…i did a walk through (foTOUR)a couple months back..
http://justinyc.typepad.com/justinyc/2006/12/the_old_casket__1.html
HPD has issued an RFP for a part of the Greenpoint Hospital site (the parking lot in the lower left photo and the former nurses residence, which I don’t think shows in these photos). The RFP is for afordable housing, as part of the the public component of affordable housing promised under the waterfront rezoning. The RFP states a preference for projects that preserve the nurse’s residence, but does not require it.
Complicating matters, local groups have long fought for the site as a nursing home, and the City’s RFP would kill that effort.
I believe the large building behind the parking lot is used for homeless housing.