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North Brooklyn archive

Williamsburg–Greenpoint–Bushwick

Saturday, March 8, 2008

What’s wrong with this picture?

Williamsburg Waterfront: The city is apparently not sweet on a developer’s plans to build a five-story glass addition atop the landmark Domino Sugar refinery building along the Williamsburg waterfront. Comments (2).

Now leaving Little Poland

Williamsburg: On the shelves of Polish grocery stores in Greenpoint, bottles of Mountain Dew and Diet Coke are beginning to crowd out liters of Zywiec Zdroj and Nateczowianka. Comments (1).

School daze

Williamsburg: Two schools were burglarized last week, in incidents that netted criminals thousands of dollars in cash and electronics. Plus all the other crime news from Williamsburg and Bushwick’s 90th Precinct. Comment.

Jaw broken

Williamsburg: An assailant broke a pedestrian’s jaw in multiple places on Feb. 24, after a woman started a conversation with another man. Plus all the other crime news from Greenpoint’s 94th Precinct. Comment.

Muggings! This train is ‘L’ on riders at Bedford Ave.

Williamsburg: A hard week for twenty-something men using the Bedford Avenue L station ended with hard time for one teenager. Comments (2).

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