This is Berry St. at N. 9 in Williamsburg. An industrial building stood here until virtually the entire block was leveled for a development more than a year ago that we’ll be adding to our Dead Pool. Developer blight is what happens when developers mess up a neighborhood worse than the normal process of urban deterioration ever could. It makes the neighborhood unsafe, unfriendly and ugy. Maybe the city can come up with a solution, like it painted windows on abandoned buildings in the South Bronx in the 1970s. The was supposed to be a Hot Karl Fischer mega-treat, but we’re betting against it.
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1 ccgh // Jan 28, 2009 at 2:21 pm
Check out all the shells and demo’d vacant lots in Windsor terrace, South Slope and Greenwood Hts. if you want a real treat.
We just loved the sites where they illegal rushed to demo and now the sites have sat vacant for months, if not a year or more. That’s progress, right?