So much for the big plans to sell Starrett City. They have been killed by a combination of recession, a dead credit market and the delusions of owners that they get a price that won’t fly in 2009. The deal is D.E.A.D. Per the Times: The owners of Starrett City, the country’s largest federally subsidized […]

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Yesterday, Curbed had the Linden Hotel. Note that it has none of that nauseating Gowanus Super 8 puke-colored brick crap. Oh no. Per the Architects Newspaper, “The use of polycarbonate panels, clear glass, expanded metal mesh, and stucco cladding creates a varied composition of translucency, transparency, reflectivity, and opacity, qualities that change over the course […]

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The number of potential bidders for the huge Starrett City complex on Jamaica Bay has increased to four. Interestingly, all the possible bidders identified so far are groups involved in affordable housing or with a commitment to keep the development’s nearly 6,000 units affordable. The complex was the subject a deeply controversial $1.3 billion bid […]

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[Photo courtesy of Nathan Kensinger Photography]Nate Kensinger, who is one of the local photographers with a talent for going places that we wouldn’t crawl or venture into, not to mention climb, takes us into a 1914-vintage abandoned rail tunnel in East New York with his latest post on his Nathan Kensinger Photography photoblog. The post […]

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