The Brooklyn Paper: SNA Newspaper of the Year, 2007

The current issue
Neighborhood Map
Bay Ridge
  • Bensonhurst, Dyker Heights
Brooklyn Heights
  • Downtown, DUMBO
Carroll Gardens
  • Cobble Hill, Red Hook, Boerum Hill
Fort Greene
  • Clinton Hill, Crown Heights
North Brooklyn
  • Williamsburg, Greenpoint, Bushwick
Park Slope
  • Prospect Heights, Windsor Terrace, Greenwood Heights
GO Brooklyn
Brooklyn Cyclones
Not Just Nets
Police Blotter
Perspective
Parenting
Politics
Transit
Media archive
The Brooklyn Bride
Brooklyn Boom
Classifieds
Merchant news
About The Paper
RSS Feeds
Brooklyn Boom

Williamsburg–Greenpoint Waterfront

Saturday, Dec. 15, 2007

Council sweet on landmarking

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. Comment.

Survey says: Nabe wants low-rent units

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. Comments (1).

Saturday, Nov. 17, 2007

Bloomy sludging it in Greenpoint

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. Comment.

Saturday, Nov. 10, 2007

New name, mission for preservation group

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. Comment.

Saturday, Oct. 13, 2007

Apple to Billyburg?

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. Comments (1).

Saturday, Oct. 6, 2007

$weetest deal for Domino lobbyists

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. Comments (1).

Saturday, Sep. 29, 2007

Domino plant landmarked!

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. Comments (1).

Saturday, Sep. 1, 2007

One tall building gets nod, other could get ‘no’

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. Comment.

Saturday, Aug. 25, 2007

This time, it’s Guttman under fire

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. Comment.

Saturday, Aug. 4, 2007

Domino fight lights up hood

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.” Comments (2).

Scarano cries foul as Billyburgers blame him for problems on L-line

Williamsburg Waterfront: Activists claim the controversial architect is the reason a hole was accidentally drilled into a subway station. Comment.

Sharp division over Domino plans

Williamsburg Waterfront: Residents, pols debate future of massive sugar plant site. Comment.

Saturday, July 21, 2007

‘Domino’ falls?

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. Comment.

Everyone in the … skate park?

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. Comment.
Buffalo Wild Wings
Rico
Corcoran
La Bagel Delight