“Opponents of a controversial residential tower proposed to rise next to the Brooklyn Bridge brought their case to Borough President Markowitz on Tuesday night, bitterly describing developer Jed Walentas’s project as bad public policy and a disastrous way to treat the fabled and legendary span.” (via The Brooklyn Paper) [Notable among the opposition was two-time Pulitzer [...]
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DUMBO Dock Street Project – Update
Posted in Architecture, Brooklyn, DUMBO, New York City, Urban Affairs on January 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Wondering if a New School in Brooklyn Is Worth Blocking the View
Posted in Architecture, Brooklyn, DUMBO, New York City, Urban Affairs on January 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In the years since the felling of the World Trade Center towers, the Brooklyn Bridge has taken on an increasing symbolic importance to New Yorkers. The bridge is now used as a backdrop for almost every local television news broadcast while the adjacent state and city parks along the East River in DUMBO, Brooklyn are [...]
Brooklyn Redux
Posted in Brooklyn, DUMBO, New York City on October 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A year ago August, Beth and I bought a condo — a “pied-a-terre” — in the gentrifying Brooklyn neighborhood known by the Disney-esque acronym, “DUMBO” (Down Under The Manhattan Bridge Overpass). Having returned to my roots (sort of), albeit part-time, after 26 years of happy exile in New England (I was born in Brooklyn but [...]
