By Adam F. Hutton
Williamsburg Waterfront: The developer planning to transform the long-shuttered Domino Sugar refinery into a vibrant residential community will face increased costs now that the City Council has landmarked three historic buildings on the site — but the company couldn’t be happier.
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By Adam F. Hutton
Williamsburg Waterfront: The developer who wants to build 2,200 units of luxury housing on the Domino Sugar refinery site just north of the Williamsburg Bridge is using its “affordable housing” component — about 660 of the new units — to promote the project in the community.
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By Adam F. Hutton
The Brooklyn Paper / Jeff Bachner
Williamsburg Waterfront: Mayor Bloomberg flushed plans to demolish a seven-story sewage sludge tank on the Greenpoint waterfront last week, and 300-units of affordable housing and several acres of open space went down the toilet with it, local watchdogs say.
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By Adam F. Hutton
Williamsburg Waterfront: The preservationist group that fought to landmark the Domino Sugar refinery and other industrial sites along the Williamsburg and Greenpoint waterfront has changed its name to more accurately reflect its mission.
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By Dana Rubinstein
Williamsburg Waterfront: The Apple Store and a Barneys Co-op are reportedly in talks to lease retail space in the ground floor of the Williamsburg Edge, the mammoth, 1,350-unit development rising on the Kent Avenue waterfront.
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By Adam F. Hutton
Williamsburg Waterfront: Developers who want to line Williamsburg’s shore with nine luxury condo towers lined the pockets of influence peddlers with more than half-million dollars over the past two years to lobby for a city rezoning that will make it possible for them to convert the 11-acre waterfront site into a residential complex.
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By Gersh Kuntzman
Williamsburg Waterfront: Three conjoined buildings at the dormant Domino Sugar factor on the Williamsburg waterfront have been declared city landmarks, though the status does not affect the plant’s beloved sign, which has the misfortune of hanging on a less aesthetically significant, 1960s-era building.
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By Rachel Corbett
Williamsburg Waterfront: A 16-story condo tower at 20 Bayard St. should proceed as planned, Williamsburg’s a Community Board 1 committee voted on Tuesday, but that doesn’t mean a neighboring 22-story proposal will get the same treatment next week.
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By Rachel Corbett
Williamsburg Waterfront: Williamsburg and Greenpoint residents were shocked to learn that Joshua Guttman, the notorious developer whose Greenpoint Terminal Market mysteriously burned down last May, has been pursuing new projects without being held accountable for a host of building violations.
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By Dana Rubinstein
Williamsburg Waterfront: A neighborhood activist who would like to derail plans for a $1.3-billion high-rise development at the old Domino Sugar site has erected a seven-story, red LED sign that screams, “SAVE DOMINO.”
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By Dana Rubinstein
Williamsburg Waterfront: Activists claim the controversial architect is the reason a hole was accidentally drilled into a subway station.
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By Dana Rubinstein
Williamsburg Waterfront: Residents, pols debate future of massive sugar plant site.
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By Rachel Corbett
Travis Harrison
Williamsburg Waterfront: The tilted yellow “Domino Sugars” sign on the old Williamsburg waterfront refinery could still be salvaged even though the building to which it’s attached will likely be knocked down during the site’s impending 11-acre redevelopment.
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By Brian J. Carreira
Williamsburg Waterfront: The Parks Department asked North Brooklynites to “go to town” at a meeting earlier this month to discuss the future of Greenpoint’s long-shuttered McCarren Pool — and residents let their imaginations run wild to envision everything from a sandy beach to summer movies to urban kayaking.
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