Greenpoint's Pencil Factory Shut Down
As blogged by Vanishing New York and picked up by Curbed, the Pencil Lofts site at 122 West Street in Greenpoint has hit a wall; VNY noticed that the DOB permits had been removed from their plexiglass protection and in their place was scrawled a note saying “Job Shut Down 5/5/09.” (To be fair, DOB…
As blogged by Vanishing New York and picked up by Curbed, the Pencil Lofts site at 122 West Street in Greenpoint has hit a wall; VNY noticed that the DOB permits had been removed from their plexiglass protection and in their place was scrawled a note saying “Job Shut Down 5/5/09.” (To be fair, DOB records show no action on that date.) This leads the blog to ask, “But can luxurification really happen in the shadow of burnt-out warehouses, in the deep hole of the New Depression?”
Greenpoint: Post-Apoc [Vanishing New York] GMAP
Magic Marker Spells Trouble at Greenpoint’s Pencil Factory [Curbed]
Photo from NY Shitty
The whole inside story about my Pencil Factory Condo unit buying process and other people’s stories.
http://www.thepencilfactory.blogspot.com/
I think excuses like that tend to be to make the owners feel better: ‘We’re not going away, we’re just re-aligning’ when in fact there is no more financing and they’re about to go under.
Yea, really, why do they even bother with an excuse that lame.