Another One Bites the Dust in Williamsburg
There was a very efficient razing on the corner of North 10th and Berry in Williamsburg yesterday, caught on film by the ever reliable justiNYC. What building was there before? More pics on the jump.
There was a very efficient razing on the corner of North 10th and Berry in Williamsburg yesterday, caught on film by the ever reliable justiNYC. What building was there before?
More pics on the jump.
Whoops- just read further down and apparently I should have caught up on my Brownstoner before posting. (Just for the record, I’m not an idiot, I was just outta town for a couple weeks.)
Wait, they’re tearing down the Old Dutch Mustard Building? The brick building with the amazing lettering? Don’t tell me they’re going to put up some glass and steel modern-strosity that looks like a Fisher Price “My First Apartment Building” approach to design. I go running by that building every weekend and the ‘for sale’ sign has been up for at least a year. Every time I pass by I fantasize about buying it, renovating it with preservation of original details, and renting it out to legitimately broke, hard-working, non-douchebag Williamsburgers. Guess that’ll never happen.
it used to be a zipper company. I lived just down the block at 111 n 10th for 2 years. used to be a great place to live. the waterfront had an amazing set of brick buildings that were slowly burned down to make way for the awfulness that is to come. Arson. fun.
I think the portion of the corner in the first shot basically shows what was there. It was a two (one and a half really) story warehouse, brick, and probably early 20th century. Don’t remember who was in there most recently.
JustiNYC should get over to Dutch Mustard – today they started on the brick portion of the building itself (the water tower structure and penthouse came down over the past week). A full-size backhoe has been on the roof for a week and a half now, and today I noticed two bobcats had been added. From their progress last week, the brick should come down pretty easily, but the concrete not.