Friday Links
Politically Connected PPW Bike Lane Foes Fighting Own Neighbors [Streetsblog] Complaints From Tenants as Cobble Hill Towers Go Condo [CG Patch] Board Seeks Crackdown On Illegal Bay Ridge Driveways [Eagle] Dennis Holt Has Something to Say About Nabe Boundaries [Eagle] Design Competition for City Point’s Outdoor Market [Eagle] Shelter Use Again Mulled at 400 McGuinness…
Politically Connected PPW Bike Lane Foes Fighting Own Neighbors [Streetsblog]
Complaints From Tenants as Cobble Hill Towers Go Condo [CG Patch]
Board Seeks Crackdown On Illegal Bay Ridge Driveways [Eagle]
Dennis Holt Has Something to Say About Nabe Boundaries [Eagle]
Design Competition for City Point’s Outdoor Market [Eagle]
Shelter Use Again Mulled at 400 McGuinness Blvd [Brooklyn 11211]
Are Next-Gen Architects Really Ready to Build? [Capital NY]
West Williamsburg: Hipsterville to Collegeville? [Observer]
west williamsburg is anything I’d guess from berry/bedford to the water?
i don’t really understand that Observer article. poorly written, and has almost no point.
the new buildings like NSP 1,2 and the Edge were built where nothing had existed, so they didn’t displace anyone, and they actually added low income housing. there’s tons of stores and another supermarket just opened. several clothing stores and other shops have opened – several in the last year. many many restaurants exist. what the heck is the guy referring to? department stores like bloomingdales not being in williamsburg? in our family, we can all find clothes, food, haircuts, drug store items, dentists, doctors, specialists, hardware store items, children’s classes and play rooms, gym, parking, liquor!, i mean anything one could think of within walking distance.
if this is an article about rising prices in gentrifying neighborhoods, well,then “yawn.” seriously lazy journalism.
I agree, Stargazer, it’s time to remove the transfat from the parking rules.
Dennis Holt needs to get his head out of his gowanus.
Not only does he mistake the directionality of neighborhood creation (city/CBs eventually recognize what the neighborhood already knows) but he also spends half the article nitpicking about smith street boundaries in a way that mirrors the problems he cited earlier around the former Boerum Hill boundaries.
Blindly following city planning dictates in naming a place is probably the laziest journalism of all.
A parking problem in Bay Ridge and they need experts to examine the problem?????
make the bus stops smaller, get rid of the non working fire hydrants. let us park in front of all houses of worship….
so many of the no parking anytime signs are so old and out of touch with todays standards….
is there really a reason why you cant park in front of a church at 4 am????
really….
and all of the metro area needs to re-evaluate our parking rules…..why cant the dumb ass mayor do something about that?????
What is West Williamsburg? Is that anywhere near East Bushwick, the place where the Cornell student had such a good time visiting?
What is West Williamsburg? Is that near West Bushwick, the place where the Cornell student had such a good time visiting?
Once again Dennis Holt has got it wrong. Hasn’t he paid off his mortgage already? Can’t he just retire?
It is absurd to call northern Smith Street, his example being the location of Char No.4, as “Gowanus.” In fact, I don’t see how any of Smith Street north of Third is in Gowanus.
And although the City Charter does create co-terminality between community districts and, again his example, police precincts, there is no exact relationship between community districts and neighborhoods. The Department of City Planning does list what neighborhoods are in a certain community district, but in many cases neighborhoods straddle boundaries. Holt has the tail waggin’ the dog here.