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March 30, 2006
Burg Boomtown: This Is The Edge!
Curbed has the scoop on the million-square-foot development slated for the Williamsburg waterfront between North 5th and North 7th. Guess they weren't kidding about that rezoning stuff. Dig the sailboats.
Wiliamsburg Getting Edgy [Curbed]
Burg to Get Edge-ier [Brooklyn Downtown Star]
The Edge [Douglaston Development]
Comments
wow! really impressive. Just hope they don't block my view.
Posted by: Anonymous at March 30, 2006 11:16 AM
Guess Schvo was right? Looks just like South Beach.
Posted by: walter at March 30, 2006 11:48 AM
Ewww. They look like a couple of big space heaters. Are they really going to be that wildly out of scale with everything else nearby (like the Citi bldg in LIC)?
Posted by: Brenda from Flatbush at March 30, 2006 12:11 PM
so ghetto.
Posted by: Anonymous at March 30, 2006 1:14 PM
Damn! They're HUGE! Those things are going to cast a shadow over the whole nabe. But finally, it looks like I'll have a local place to park my schooner. Phew!
Posted by: Judy at March 30, 2006 1:25 PM
Sweet...40 stories. take that LIC
Posted by: steve at March 30, 2006 2:48 PM
It's all gonna look like the Jersey City waterfront and battery park, in short time, which is not a bad thing. Really nice spot to hang out, jog, take a stroll, even if you don't live there.
Posted by: Anonymous at March 30, 2006 3:30 PM
it does look like the tower in LIC in terms of scale with rest of architecture
Posted by: Anonymous at March 30, 2006 3:31 PM
Yuck. No soul. The waterfront will look just like Toronto or any other big bland city.
Posted by: Whitbo at March 30, 2006 5:09 PM
If you think it's not such a bad thing Anon 3.30, try taking the L at rush hour. Williamsburg does not have the infrastructure (schools, transportation, hospitals, etc) for this kind of development.
Posted by: Anonymous at March 30, 2006 7:19 PM
this is the exact type of development wburg residents feared when the rezoning became official. ugly, souless, tall. garbage development by a garbage developer.
bpc is not something a neighborhood should aspire to.
Posted by: southDub at March 30, 2006 8:26 PM
The irony: They won't let me brush up against my landark the wrong way, but they let this happen.
Posted by: Anonymous at March 30, 2006 8:33 PM
landmark
But landArk makes some strange sense here.
Posted by: Anonymous at March 30, 2006 8:34 PM
don't rent anything at 151 Kent. Your manhattan view will vanish very, very soon.
and we don't even have a f'in decent grocery store. tops is okay, but majorly overpriced. and once every condo is built - looked around mccarren park lately? - where are people going to shop, drop their dry cleaning, PARK? do their laundry?
Posted by: brooklyn agent at March 30, 2006 11:30 PM
R.I.P. Williamsburg.
Oh how promising you once seemed, and how I loved you way back when I first lived there. But it's damn good and ovah now.
Posted by: Woodside Al at March 31, 2006 12:21 PM
Silly, they won't be crowding on the train. They'll be taking their sailboats to work!
Posted by: Amy at March 31, 2006 10:38 PM
Ahhhh. The properly ironic demise to a neighborhood that grew too full of itself.
Posted by: Anonymous at April 18, 2006 10:29 AM
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