We checked in on 95 Bedford Avenue over the weekened, the big empty lot that will be the future site of a very large building designed by Karl Fischer. The reason for our interest isn’t so much to plot the progress of excavation work as to see what kind of environmental remediation is being done […]

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The development of the former Robeling Oil Field, which brought us Warehouse 11 springing from its cleaned and capped hole, has begun anew. After some demolition work, land is already cleared for Phase II, on the Driggs Avenue side of the property, which will also be a Karl Fischer work (and we assume on that […]

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We debated between an angry Brooklyn Missed Connection about a Hipster and a Herpster for this August Sunday and a romantic one and opted for the latter. Here it is: Dumont Burger – u in a tube top dress with a smile as big as an ocean – m4w (bedford) looking to craigslist as a […]

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We’ve come across many sentiments scrawled at construction sites, including a fair number in Williamsburg involving obscenities. This one, at 105 Metropolitan Avenue, a new site near Wythe Avenue, is one of the more interesting ones. (The building will be five stories and has claimed space next to the pretty backyard of Relish.) It’s been […]

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Just this morning I noticed windows finally being placed in these big cinderblobs, which had mystified me too. “Luxury rentals,” heh. This place looks for all the world like a college dorm, which I imagine is exactly the purpose it’ll serve if the stream of NYU students rotating annually through my building nearby is any […]

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From Metropolitan Avenue in Williamsburg. They have a few more Saturdays on which to be closed.

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We truly can say nothing about this photo, other than it was shot at the East River in East River State Park in Williamsburg.

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This is one of the latest works by Karl Fischer to come on line in Williamsburg, 525 Union Avenue and is one of the buildings to be completed in the booming Union Avenue corridor both west and east of the BQE. It’s not a condo but a “luxury rental” that started marketing itself a couple […]

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This is the relatively current state of the new Karl Fischer building at Bedford Avenue and S. 4 Street. It was stall for a long time, but was rising quickly since work resumed. (Err…at least until it was hit with a Stop Work Order a week ago.) Click here for the rendering.

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This is 99 Havemeyer, aka the corner of Hope and Havemeyer where The image above is 99 Havemeyer, which is at the corner of Hope and Havemeyer. It’s a four-story Robert Scarano building that’s been going up slowly and will have six units whenever it’s done. It’s next to 53 Hope Street, an old industrial […]

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At some point, the neighborhood around 184 Kent Avenue will be quite crowded and very unlike the unpopulated wasteland that it was six or seven years ago. Northside Piers is immediately to the north and the Edge is north of that. But across the street, the building officially known as 175 Kent Avenue, a Chetrit […]

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This discarded specimen comes to us from N. 8 Street in Williamsburg, where we found it loaded up with other tossed furniture. We call it, Sofa with Drawers.

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This is 439 Metropolitan Avenue, which has been slowly going up across the street from Meeker Avenue and the entrance to the BQE. The building will have a mix of apartments and office space from Helder Design. It’s NYC’s first LEED Platinum rating for a mixed-use buildings and one of several green buildings going up […]

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[Photo courtesy of Glasson/GL Flickr Pool] It was only a few years ago that McCarren Pool was a kind of a scary spot, covered with graffiti and overgrown with weeds. All that’s changed now, but GL Flickr Pool contributor Glasson laid some nice pics on us to recall the good, old pre-hipster, pre-concert days at […]

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[Photo courtesy of Eater] Our friends at Eater have all the riveting details about the prep work on Brooklyn Bowl on Wythe Avenue in Williamsburg. There is a full photogallery of the ongoing interior construction work as well as details on what is to come. A short sample of some of the rich detail: The […]

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[Photo courtesy of Adrian Kinloch/Brit in Brooklyn] Here’s the Williamsburg waterfront from the promenade at Schaefer Landing as captured by Brit in Brooklyn photoblogger and GL contributor Adrian Kinloch.

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Forgotten New York wanders over to N. 10 Street in Williamsburg this week, a spot that we’ve chronicled every inch of and that we know so well that we know when some graffiti changes. Kevin Walsh writes of this street that still blends the old Burg with the new and is still the epicenter of […]

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[Photo courtesy of Curbed; click to expand] Yesterday, Lockhart Steele, the founder of Curbed who is putting up a whole lot of cool posts over there this week, had this exclusive photographic gem of 184 Kent Avenue in Williamsburg, a building and development that we’ve followed quite closely. When 184 is finished, which is promised […]

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Movies Under the Moon actually started last week, but there another showing in the series tonight with The Astronaut Farmer playing. Here’s a bit of the hot description of the series from the press release: This August, as summer draws to a close, Williamsburg’s hottest and soon-to-be largest residential condominium development, The Edge, and the […]

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Fans of odd, abandoned Williamsburg real estate, know the corner of N. 7 & Berry Street well. It’s been the site of an abandoned gas station and services station for a long time, with its peeling, old Mobil sign making an interesting juxtaposition against new condos like Karl Fischers Seven Berry and, of course, the […]

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Here are a couple of nice vids of last night’s 88 BoaDrum performance in East River State Park in Williamsburg featuring Gang Gang Dance. It was, you know, 88 drums starting their performance at 8:08PM on 8/8/08.

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This is based on a post we ran about Holy Trinity Cemetery from the wonderful Ruth Edebohls at CUE a couple of weeks ago who, among other things, supplies us with “History Revealed” posts. In any case, WPGA picks up the thread with more history about the Burg’s Holy Trinity Church. “Now known as Most […]

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Our old friend 80 Metropolitan, which will occupy the entire block between Metropolitan Avenue and S. 1 Street and Wythe Avenue and Kent Avenue, is finished rising and is now acquiring touches like brick. (Well, the main building is done rising. The building along Kent Avenue, which got a later start, is still going up.) […]

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[Image courtesy of acsweet/flickr] Tomorrow (Saturday, 8/9) is the next and final installment of Williamsburg Walks, which is the car-free Bedford Avenue experiment that will be taking place from Noon-7PM between Metropolitan Avenue and N. 12 Street. Check it out. Tomorrow is also the first installment of the city’s Summer Streets program, though that ambitious […]

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We don’t know what happened to the signs at the corner of N. 9 Street and Wythe Avenue in Williamsburg, but it does seem like it was violent. We are guessing they are victims of a vehicular homicide.

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