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The Brooklyn Paper / Tony Trezza
Williamsburg Waterfront: The developers of one luxury condo tower in Williamsburg are so confident that you’ll love their building that they’ll drive you to the competition.
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By Ben Muessig
Williamsburg Waterfront: You’ve heard of Hershey Park, but have you heard of Nestle Park?
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By Ben Muessig
Office of the Attorney General
Williamsburg Waterfront: The Environmental Protection Agency revealed on Wednesday that it is considering classifying North Brooklyn’s fetid Newtown Creek as a Superfund site — a designation that would clear the way for a federal clean-up of the filthy waterway.
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By Ben Muessig
Richard Femia
Williamsburg Waterfront: The new owners of Williamsburg’s so-called “Finger Building” have agreed to amputate the controversial North Eighth Street tower, but the size of the cut remains in question.
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By Ben Muessig
Williamsburg Waterfront: Greenpoint and Williamsburg are about the get shorter.
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By Ben Muessig
The Brooklyn Paper / Tom Callan
Williamsburg Waterfront: It’s the parking lot with the best view in the city, but now open-space starved North Brooklynites are demanding that the city make good on its promise to turn the lot into a parkland paradise.
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By Ben Muessig
The Brooklyn Paper / Bess Adler
Williamsburg Waterfront: A Williamsburg man has a Web site and a dream — to fill empty apartments throughout the neighborhood quickly, and reap the discounts.
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By Ben Muessig
Williamsburg Waterfront: The cash-strapped state parks department has reopened Williamsburg’s only waterfront park a month ahead of schedule — and just in time for winter.
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By Ben Muessig
The Brooklyn Paper / Ben Muessig
Williamsburg Waterfront: The economic collapse has claimed another victim — a Greenpoint condo project partly funded by former NBA great Magic Johnson has gone bankrupt.
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By Ben Muessig
Williamsburg Waterfront: In the biggest Williamsburg slashing since last summer’s machete attack, the developers behind the skyscraping Northside Piers development cut the prices on some condos by a shocking 37 percent.
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By Ben Muessig
Beyer Blinder Belle
Williamsburg Waterfront: The developer behind Brooklyn’s second biggest construction project says that he’s doing fine — even though his foes are hoping that the softening economy will do to his oversized project what it did to Atlantic Yards.
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By Ben Muessig
Mean Streets: Fasten your seatbelts, Williamsburg — next week’s community board meeting is going to be a “showdown” over the stunning Christmas Eve dismissal of the chairwoman of the transportation committee, who was deposed because of her vocal support for a pair of controversial Kent Avenue bike lanes.
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By Ben Muessig
The Brooklyn Paper / Ben Muessig
Mean Streets: Opponents of a pair of controversial bike lanes on Kent Avenue have been using school buses to block the street in an act of automotive disobedience — and now they’re publicizing their plans with a billboard blaming the resulting traffic jams on cyclists.
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By Ben Muessig
Williamsburg Waterfront: A historic, Cass Gilbert-designed building on the Williamsburg waterfront will be preserved in perpetuity — no thanks to the city.
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