If you weren’t around on New Year’s Eve or weren’t paying attention, you might want to check out our year-end coverage. Here are the links: · GL’s Top Ten Brooklyn Stories of 2008 · 2009 Will Change Brooklyn’s Development Vocabulary · GL’s 2009 Brooklyn Deathwatch: Five Rotting Corpses??? · Thanks to Our Readers and Contributors […]

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If you weren’t around on New Year’s Eve or weren’t paying attention, you might want to check out our year-end coverage. Here are the links: · GL’s Top Ten Brooklyn Stories of 2008 · 2009 Will Change Brooklyn’s Development Vocabulary · GL’s 2009 Brooklyn Deathwatch: Five Rotting Corpses??? · Thanks to Our Readers and Contributors […]

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Last year, we went out on a limb and predicted the Gowanus Whole Foods project wouldn’t happen. It hasn’t. Yet. This year there are oh-so-many projects that one can predict will be scaled back or do the Dance of Death. Here are a few to chew on: 1. Atlantic Yards. We think there is a […]

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What a difference a couple of years makes. When we were wrapping up 2006, we were calling it the year Brooklyn changed forever. Atlantic Yards had been approved. The Williamsburg construction boom was underway. Industrial landmarks all over the borough were threatened. Those are not the kinds of things we expect to be talking about […]

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Here is our selection for the Top Ten Brooklyn Stories of 2008: 1) The Boom Goes Bust. Parts of Brooklyn–Downtown, Williamsburg and Greenpoint–to name a few, will turn out to be Ground Zero of the spectacular Development Crash of 2008. The city’s awful failure to plan for growth will be replaced by its failure to […]

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