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The warehouse at 85 Wythe may soon become an office space (Screenshot via Google Maps)WILLIAMSBURG – Permits filed with the Department of Buildings this week are clearing the way for the demolition of the warehouse on Wythe Avenue, which usually signifies the first step in some serious development. The roughly
Greenpoint
GREENPOINT – The old Kosciuszko Bridge ended with a bang, not a whimper, early Sunday morning. The old span was dropped by an “energetic felling,” conducted by Controlled Demoltion, Inc. Two sections, composed of more than more than 3,000 feet steel on either side of Newtown Creek, fell onto piles
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2442 Ocean Avenue between Avenues T & S. (Rendering via Eran Birnbaum Architect) Two St. Edmund’s rectories, built in 1925, are slated to be demolished, and in their place could rise a 7-story medical and apartment complex — mirroring the look of surrounding Ocean Avenue blocks [/long-blighted-ocean-avenue-lot-become-28-unit-residential-development-sheepshead-bay/] . Brooklyn-based developer Yaacov
Central Brooklyn
1921 Cortelyou Road. (Photo by Liena Zagare/BKLYNER)Applications have been filed for a nine-story, 76-unit mixed-use building at the home of Baptist Church of the Redeemer, 1921 Cortelyou Road and Ocean Avenue. The project would encompass 70,321 square feet and rise 95 feet to its rooftop, reports YIMBY
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(Photo by Tom Prendergast)When news broke that The Pavilion was bought by Williamsburg’s Nitehawk Cinemas, we thought we were saying goodbye to the gum-spackled, rat-infested-yet-beloved theater [/exploring-the-pavilions-dark-secrets-one-last-time/]. But now it looks like the theater we love to hate is getting chewed out once again, this time by union
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909a Cortelyou Road. (Photo by Ditmas Park Corner)Demolition has started this week on the single-story stucco shed at the corner of Cortelyou Road and East 9th Street, a relic of “Eddy’s shoemaker” & watch repair shop. The stone hut was built as a 5-car garage in 1923, and
Central Brooklyn
909a Cortelyou Road. (Photo by Ditmas Park Corner)Demolition has started this week on the single-story stucco shed at the corner of Cortelyou Road and East 9th Street, a relic of “Eddy’s shoemaker” & watch repair shop. The stone hut was built as a 5-car garage in 1923, and
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Photo via Google Maps.Applications have been filed by the Brooklyn-based real estate company, TNE Buildings, to build two three-story apartment buildings at 2416-2418 E 15th St, in Sheepshead Bay., according to New York YIMBY. [http://www.yimbynews.com/2016/09/two-three-story-two-family-residential-buildings-coming-to-2416-east-15th-street-sheepshead-bay.html] The buildings will measure at 3,388
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Photo via Google Maps.Applications have been filed by the Brooklyn-based real estate company, TNE Buildings, to build two three-story apartment buildings at 2416-2418 E 15th St, in Sheepshead Bay., according to New York YIMBY. [http://www.yimbynews.com/2016/09/two-three-story-two-family-residential-buildings-coming-to-2416-east-15th-street-sheepshead-bay.html] The buildings will measure at 3,388
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Photo via Google Maps.Two of the last remaining houses on Ocean Avenue between Avenue U and Avenue T will be biting the dust to make room for a six-story residential building. Permits for the demolition of the houses were filed in June, and permits for the building were filed
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Photo by South Slope NewsJust when you thought it was safe to put in your earplugs. Back in 2013, we reported that Lafayette Glass [http://www.lmgny.com/]— which at the time was located at 715 6th Avenue (between 21st and 22nd Streets) — moved out to Long Island, leaving a
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After 40 years of serving up burgers and breakfasts to Sheepshead Bay residents, the iconic building that housed El Greco Diner has been demolished. Crews arrived this morning and began tearing away at the structure, with most of it turned into a heap of metal, wood and plaster by 10: