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Entries Tagged as 'The Undead'

Dead Pool or Stalled Pool or Blight Me? City Point Not Moving

February 18th, 2009 · 3 Comments

We don’t know what’s up at City Point, the once grand development planned at a property originally owned by developer Joe Sitt–the Galleria Mall that he promised to turn into the “Belaggio” of shopping malls. (Guess “Bellagio” is Italian for sell it and tear it down?) In any case, what’s signficant about this, other the […]

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Tags: Blight Me · Downtown Brooklyn · The Dead Pool · The Undead

The Undead: Ismael Leyva’s Fourth Ave. Masterpiece

February 5th, 2009 · 3 Comments

It’s always interesting to have confirmation that a huge planned project is indeed alive. So it is with big building designed by Ismael Leyva at 150 Fourth Avenue on the Gowanus side of dividing line. For a time the building next store had been vacated because construction work had undermined it, but that too, is […]

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Tags: Fourth Avenue · Gowanus · The Undead