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Upcoming: Film shoot in Greenpoint 5am - 11pm on Franklin Street on 4/30/08.  No parking.  [Gowanus Lounge]   Community Board #1 meeting Transportation Committee Meeting 4/30 6:30PM @  435 Graham Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11211 (Corner of Frost Street)   >

The eye on Williamsburg shows us the following "developments": 40 & 44 Berry Plans designed by Perkins Eastman include 220 new apartments, indoor pool, 7 floors, at least 8 retail spaces on ground level. [Curbed] 85 North 3rd Street/The Mill Building >

Not quite Williamsburg, but of Williamsburg interest, in nearby Queens the House of Yes had a fire this weekend.  Culprit:  Toaster.  Accomplice: five foot paper puppet goblin head.  Up in flames. Brooklyn Vegan heard about it & did all the leg >

To illustrate how stop work orders can impact Williamsburg (of which DOB Commish Lancaster had handed out 10,000 partial or full Stop Work Orders last year), we'd like to point to the Curbed report of construction resuming at  Urban Green >

This is bigger than Williamsburg, but it will impact us here with development decisions.  The Dept of Buildings Commissioner, Patricia Lancaster, has resigned after a 6 year tenure. There's quite the buzz in the blogsphere. Read what Curbed has to >

Sunday night an electrical fire damaged a portion of Zebulon, located on 258 Wythe Ave between Metropolitan Ave. and N. 3rd St.  They are hoping to reopen by May 1st.  Extent of the damages is yet unknown.      >

Dept of Buildings recently disapproved a new filing for the Domino Sugar Factory plans. According to Brownstowner: Previous reports about the developer's plans for the structure have not included mention of a hotel, but a CPC filing that the DOB >

Activists held a protest of Exxon's financial involvement in McCarren Parks' Earth Day yesterday.  The organizers of the event weren't too happy. Read more here.   >

Around 2am one night last week, members of the Williamsburg Shomrim (that's volunteer Jewish civilian patrols)  noticed a suspicious forklift during a routine patrol. WSPU units proceeded to follow the forklift which soon started driving very aggressively, and then started >

Southpaw owner Matthew Roff has plans to sign a lease on the Galapagos space.  Galapagos is relocating to DUMBO, sometime. The name: Natural Selection. "We're all fans of Darwin, obviously," says Roff, who will partner with the owners of popular >

Kellogg's Diner is closed for renovations.  They've also closed for DOH reasons.  Do you wonder what type of pheonix will rise from the ashes? So as the sticker here indicates, Kellogg's was shut down on 9 April with 77 violation >

It appears that the plans for the rooftop garden at Studio B isn't approved by the Department of Buildings.  New York Shitty had this to say: Plans were filed March 31 of this year. They were disapproved.  Plans to change >

TreeTop Development is selling & stopping.  Here's the current scoop: Whether things have been going well for TreeTop Development in Williamsburg, we suppose, depends on one's point of view. The company did get $7.95 million from Dermott Company for its >

Do you hear about all these plans for more greenspaces in Williamsburg and want to know more about it?  Here's your first stop in becoming informed and possibly involved.  Go to the PUSH FOR PARKS meeting sponsered by GWAPP. Find >

Groundbreaking for the new park is planned for 2009 with a pricetag of 10 - 12 million dollars.  It is expected to take 1.5 years to build it all, complete with pier & bird gardens. Read more about the meeting >

There's progress again at 136 Metropolitan Avenue! Curbed breaks it down this way: There had been a Stop Work Order for several months at the site of the Metropolitan Cinema & Apartments, the Burg's someday-to-be indie film palace with condos >

Doesn't everyone in Williamsburg love bikes?  Thankfully, so does Community Board 1, at least by looking at the recent 39 - 2 vote that places a bike lane instead of parking spots. According to Streetsblog Two other community boards had >

Seriously, there's this event at Union Pool every month that's free (but RSVP required) on teaching the "creative class" the finer points of buying a home.  The Brooklyn Paper quotes the event host: "There is so much information people just >

On Friday, April 18, 10:00 AM at the Committee Room in City hall, the City Council's Parks & Recreations subcommittee have on the floor a Local Law to amend the administrative code of the City of New York in relation >

From Gowanus Lounge: In case you care about the G Train and didn't make it to last week's City Council Meeting, here's another chance to speak your mind. New York City Transit President Howard Roberts will be appearing at a >

From Gowanus Lounge: We see dozens of fliers posted every week for lost pets all over Brooklyn and they always sadden us--both for the people that have lost a friend and the creature that has been lost or (in some >

From Gowanus Lounge: We hadn't checked on the site of the Karl Fischer "Monster Tower" at Grand Street and Driggs Avenue, which had been the scene of an earlier demolish & dig frenzy as the controversial neighborhood downzoning was being >

From Gothamist:  New York water consumers (i.e. everyone) are about to take a bath once the City's Water Board follows through with its recommendation to raise rates by 14.5%, which it was scheduled to propose Friday. The rate hike proposal >

The displaced residents of 475 Kent Ave. have a new show at the Queens Museum of Art.  New show at the Queens Museum of Art from the residents of 475 Kent.  About three months the residents of 475 Kent were >

More building activity on Bedford and Broadway A long stalled building for the corner of Bedford Avenue and Broadway, south of the Williamsburg Bridge, appears to be getting underway. The first application for the building was filed in 20002 and >

They used to be called Tweenkees, but Brooklynite and organic culinary creator Sarah Magid has changed the name to: The Goldies. Magid tells us they're made from "organic dark chocolate sponge cake filled with organic vanillla or espresso whipped buttercream, >

The city Health Department is reporting progress in the war on the pests. A department study found nearly 30% of all city households report having cockroaches, but the agency noted the problem is concentrated in low-income neighborhoods. In the past, >

Those who follow news of the Williamsburg waterfront will know that the big proposed TransGas power plant on the Bushwick Inlet was dealt a fairly decisive blow in Albany a couple of weeks ago. (TransGas will likely appeal, but has >

Gowanus Lounge and Curbed have published renderings of the planned Bushwick Inlet Park on the Williamsburg-Greenpoint waterfront, which the Parks Dept. says it's going to start working on this fall. The drawings are for the first phase of the project, >

Weather permitting, one of our favorite Northside Williamsburg haunts - Grand Ferry Park - will reopen in late April, according to the NYC Parks Department. The tiny waterfront park at the foot of Grand Street on the East River has >

This is 66 N. 1 Street in Williamsburg, a renovation with growth on top designed by Robert Scarano. It's across the street from the townhouse part of 80 Metropolitan. The building has been named Factory Lofts and the first listings >

The recent crop of condos in Greenpoint is starting to bloom and one of the more interesting ones is 143 Huron Street, which manages to cut quite a profile. New York Shitty writes of the intended effect: "If I had >

A Brooklyn jury on Monday returned a guilty verdict in the trial of a 23-year-old man facing murder charges for the shooting death of an acquaintance last February in the East Williamsburg section of the borough. Read more here.   >

There was much progress in Williamsburg last night on two major waterfront plans, that for the big Bushwick Inlet Park and for the Greenpoint-Williamsburg portion of the Brooklyn Greenway. Community Board 1 voted in favor of the Greenway in a >

This past Thursday afternoon, NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly made a personal visit to the Satmar Rebbe from Williamsburg, Rav Zalman Leib Teitelbaum Shlita to wish the Rebbe and all Satmar Chassidim a safe and secure Yom Tov of Pesach. The >

Pedestrian Struck in Williamsburg April 9, 2008 1:25PM EST: Williamsburg Hatzolah is on the scene of a pedestrian struck by an auto in front of 157 Wallabout Avenue (near Lee Avenue). Unknown extent of injuries. Source here. >

Starting April 8th, The Music Hall of Williamsburg will be open for happy hour.  From 6pm until the opening band starts all well drinks and draft beer will be $3. It says so on their website! >

It's true. Studio B is opening a rooftop garden on May 2, just in time for Spring! To celebrate the event we're planning a blow-out, throw-down featuring Brazilian Girls, Spank Rock, The Rub, DJ Roxy Cottontail and more tba! Tickets >

Last night, Community Board 1 voted to approve the Brooklyn Greenway through Greenpoint and Williamsburg. The plan promises a walking and bike path on or near the waterfront. More details to follow. Gowanus Lounge tells us so.   >

The website HotPads is producing foreclosure heat maps, such as the one for Brooklyn at this link. The data for the maps comes from RealtyTrac, which collects info on foreclosure filings. No big surprises: The site's NYC map show that >

The Skyscraper Museum is presenting a panel discussion about the Williamsburg Waterfront on April 22. It will include Shaun Donovan, Commissioner, NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development; Stephen B. Jacobs, President, The Stephen B. Jacobs Group; Dan Kaplan, Senior >

No longer called the "war on graffiti," but now Mayor Bloomberg's Graffiti-Free NYC removal program through the Economic Development Corporation, a fleet of trucks responds seven days and four nights a week to graffiti complaint reports filed with community boards >

Allie Shaper started out working at Rivendell, and then struck out on her own in 2005 with Brooklyn Oenology, headquartered in an old warehouse in Greenpoint. Last year, Shaper founded the quixotic-sounding Urban Winery Alliance, a fledgling group that she >

Brooklyn officials and activists told horror stories and demanded better service on the much-maligned "G" train, while the MTA, in effect, pleaded poverty based on today's economic situation. That was basically the scenario at the City Council Chambers Tuesday at >

The building we have called the Finger of S. 1 Street in Williamsburg, has gotten a name: It's the Soleil! (Which reminds us in an odd way of a different Burg finger, the Luminous.) The grand opening of 275 S. >

5 reasons to live, visit or stay away from here 1 It's quiet. That's why software developer Rob King, 32, moved here. "I wanted out of Manhattan," he said. "There are bars on Fourth Street." 2 It's getting expensive. "Now, >

New Yorkers are so far weathering the country's economic problems better than folks in most other regions, new government job statistics show. Employment in the city is up 1.3 percent in the last year, more than twice the national rate >

Kennedy Rivera's work is to ensure that he and other tenants on modest incomes can stay living in the neighborhood of "East Williamsburg". He is a housing specialist with Bushwick Housing Independence, a nonprofit group that by its own account >

Assemblyman Vito Lopez (D-Brooklyn) has introduced a bill that would allow the state to take Pfizer's plant in Williamsburg by eminent domain in order to develop affordable housing on the site. Currently, Pfizer plans to shut down the plant and >

New foreclosures soared in New York City in the first quarter, increasing 51 percent compared to the fourth quarter of last year and 65 percent over last year's first quarter, according to a PropertyShark.com report. Queens especially saw "substantial activity," >

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's far-reaching plan to ease traffic in Manhattan died here on Monday in a closed conference room on the third floor of the Capitol. Democratic members of the State Assembly held one final meeting to debate the >

A sneak-peek at 66 North 1st St. in Williamsburg, a 21-unit factory restoration with a Robert Scarano-designed addition (which our friends at Gowanus Lounge have been following), is expected to make its full public debut this week. Read more about >

A group of Williamsburg developers and homeowners say they will sue the city over last week's decision to downzone their properties, which the developers claim will cost them millions in lost revenue that they expected to make from new developments. >

City Council voted last week to downzone a 13-block area along Grand St between Berry St and Marcy Ave and some surrounding streets halting several projects, some already under construction. Downzoning supporters are in favor of preserving the low-rise character >

Yikes: A tractor-trailer crashed into a building at Kent and N. 11th Street in Brooklyn this morning. No injuries have been reported, but the building has been evacuated (there are apartments on the second floor) and the Buildings Department has >

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority played straphangers for the fool, canceling $30 million in subway and bus improvements that were promised in the wake of the fare increase - an abrupt turnaround from promises made by the agency just this month. >