The second part of the Roebling Oil Field development, well Warehouse 11, which is on the cleaned up former Roebling Oil property, is underway and the good old Empire pile driver is banging away on the property. The interesting thing is that it looks like they’re not digging down too far below grade for part [...]

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On the left we have the Shaft of Fourth Avenue, a rental building, from Bricolage Designs. On the right, we have a boxy thing designed by Armand Quadrini that was originally a Robert Scarano product. The Quadrini is 12 stories and will have 44 units. Comparison between the two versions here.

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This is 246 Bedford Avenue, a development that we’ve featured many times, and never for a good reason. We poked our camera inside to take a look at progress, and there has been some since this time last year when the front door open to a two-story deep pit we dubbed “The Door of Death.” [...]

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We’ve been watching this development at N. 10 and Berry for nearly two years when the building that originally stood there was demolished. In a neighborhood that has many contenders for the title of Slowest Building in Brooklyn, this project is definitely a in the Top Ten. This is 70 Berry, designed by Armand Quadrini [...]

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We noted this development near Restoration Plaza in Bed-Stuy on Curbed yesterday, but figure we’d post the rendering of the Nzinga Townhomes from Garrison Architects as part of our overall interest in really stepping up our coverage of Bed-Stuy, Fort Green and Clinton Hill. The developer is hoping to break ground in early 2009 on [...]

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Looks like the Surf Bar on N. 7 Street in Williamsburg between Bedford Ave. and Berry is about to get a new friend. It’s not exactly clear what that friend is going to be, athough a document filed in 2004 read:
PROPOSE TO EXTEND & CONVERT THE EXISTING ONE STORY COMMERCIAL BUILDING INTO A MIXED [...]

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This is the building that is starting to rise at 137 Fifth Avenue, which is the corner of Fifth Ave. & St. John’s Place. It is one of the rare new buildings going up in that part of the North Slope. Back in June, Brownstoner reported that it would be a five-story building with four [...]

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Oh, the joy of a Robert Scarano building. This is the big one on Fourth Avenue (right next to the big KFC for the expensive condo fried chicken lovers out there) and it’s definitely more and more on view. Brownstoner had checked it last week when there was just a little peeky-boo showing. We [...]

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So, here’s our question: Who wants to live in a spot that is arguably one of the more gaping assholes of Brooklyn? Clearly the developers of this building whose official address is 235/237 Gold Street are betting there will be takers. (Or saying prayers there will be, at least, if the prices and/or rent are [...]

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This building project has been going on at the corner of Hope & Havemeyer Street in the Burg for a while. (For a long while, actually.) It’s formally known as 99 Havemeyer Street and it’s noteworthy for one reason in particular: it’s one of the dwindling number of Robert Scarano buildings under construction in Brooklyn. [...]

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An old liquor store on Lorimer Street near Grand, east of the BQE, is going vertical in a major way. The store had sat there quietly for years, selling booze and lottery tickets to the locals and the (increasingly) the newly-arrived hipster. Ah, but no longer. They’re still selling PBR’s and Vladimir Vodka, but they’re [...]

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This is the Karl Fischer building rising at Union Avenue and Ainslie Street in Williamsburg, whose actual address is 405 Union. This particular Hot Karl, which is centrally located right behind a Getty Gas Station and with a heartburn distance of the soon to re-open Kellogg’s Diner, not to mention the Gateway to Williamsburg, will [...]

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Looking for action at the corner of Grand Street and Berry Street in the Burg where some old buildings came down last year? Keep looking. Nothing’s happening. Whether this ends up being one of the Burg’s many (future) abandoned building sites remains to be seen. The only thing we know is that 130 Grand, which [...]

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We think it may be safe to call this the slowest Karl Fischer building going up in all of Brooklyn. The building is at N. 8 & Roebling, only a few blocks from the architect’s master work on Karl Fischer Row, and work has been going on since late 2006 (a basement was never excavated). [...]

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Work is moving ahead at 40 Berry Street, which will be a seven-story, 142-unit rental building from the studios of Perkins Eastman. The site has had its issues both with oil on the site from ruptured tanks and with dangerous conditions at the site itself, which led us to dub it the Mud Pit of [...]

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This is 111 Kent Avenue, which is known as (gasp) 111 Kent. It is rising across the street from East River State Park. The building has 62 units and has been designed to make the most of views of Manhattan that won’t be blocked. There will be a rooftop pool, two sundecks, a gym, a [...]

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There is much competition for the Slowest Building in Williamsburg title, but one of the Top Five Contenders is this building going up at the corner of N. 10 and Berry. If it seems like it has been under construction forever, it sort of has. Work has been underway for more than a year and [...]

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This is 268 Wythe Avenue in Williamsburg, which is going up at the corner of Wythe and Metropolitan in Williamsburg. It comes from MDIM Architects. The building will be seven stories tall and have 17 condos. It shouldn’t be long before we’ll be able to tell whether the exterior will actually match the rendering (below).

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This is another building come to the increasingly popular stretch of Metropolitan Avenue in Williamsburg between Berry Street and Kent Avenue. The new building at 135 Metropolitan will be five stories tall and have ten unit, according to the Department of Buildings. The architect on the job is Armando Porto.

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By this time next year, the Williamsburg waterfront will have four residential towers in some stage of completion–two at Northside Piers, which is a Toll Brothers venture, and two at the Edge, the big complex to the north. Phase I of the Edge will have 575 luxury units and 347 affordable units. There will also [...]

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This is 155 N. 4 Street in Williamsburg, a Karl Fischer building that we’ve called the meat in the sandwich because of its position between two other new buildings. This new Hot Karl is going up between Gene Kaufman’s Rialto (on the left) and Mr. Fischer’s own Nforth condo. Sadly, there are no renderings available [...]

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[Photo courtesy of Rubys Host/GL Flickr Pool]
The white buildings in the background is the development known as The Breakers, a Sheepshead Bay project that has garnered its share of attention, particularly because it’s a gated community that has cut people off from waterfront access. There’s a long post about here on Sheepshead Bites. There are [...]

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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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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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[Photo courtesy of Adrian Kinloch/Brit in Brooklyn]
This is the (temporary) new look Fulton Mall, with ongoing demolition work and buildings rising in the background. This space will eventually be filled by the huge mixed use complex called Citypoint with condo tower is due to rise there including 525,000 square feet of retail, 360,000 square feet [...]

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