Afternoon Links: BQE Reconstruction Update, Brooklyn Could Be the Next Hollywood for TV
ABC’s ‘Quantico’ is being filmed in Greenpoint, Spike Lee hosts a Prince celebration in Fort Greene and more.
Brooklyn Museum. Photo by Mary Hautman
In the News
Galleries Scramble Amid Brooklyn’s Gentrification [NYT]
TV as Brooklyn Growth Industry: ‘Quantico’ Is Coming to Town [NYT]
Brooklyn Board of Elections Official Suspended Amid Investigation [WSJ]
Spike Lee Gets Fort Greene to Party for Prince [NYDN]
Bushwick Locals: We Won’t Vacate for MTA’s Track Repairs [BK Paper]
First Domino Sugar Refinery Tower Now Rising Above Williamsburg [6sqft]
BQE Reconstruction Won’t Start for at Least Five Years, DOT Says [DNA]
Comment of the Day
I am glad that they didn’t do a Norman Foster on it, by gutting it and having a modern tower erupt out of it like an architectural “Alien” creature. It is ridiculously tall, however. But from the renderings, the marriage works pretty well on the main level.
— montrosemorris in Landmarks Greenlights Brooklyn’s Future Tallest Tower, Praises Design
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