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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“The management of N. 11th has been very responsive anytime we (as neighbors) have had a complaint. All you have to do is call them and talk to them (I know, a novel idea). When neighbors of ours complained about the tiny styrofoam the offered to come over and clean it up. When another person [...]

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There is progress to report about the “Third World Dump” created by a development mess on long-suffering N. 11 Street and Roebling in Williamsburg. (In fact, there are so many construction sites in the area that some days several pile drivers are going at once at sites a few blocks apart creating a most interesting [...]

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Once upon a time, neighbors of the construction site we used to call the Roebling Oil Field were worried about the pools of oil that bubbled to the surface as the property was dug up. Then, the oil was cleaned up and the Roebling Oil Building rose (very quickly) on the site. It’s now known [...]

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The tear down on Driggs Avenue between N. 10 & N. 11 Streets to make way for Phase II of the former Roebling Oil Building, which is a Karl Fischer building called Warehouse 11, continues. The name of the new project on the sign is Driggs Place, but it’s an extension of its neighbor. The [...]

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The demolition of what we’re calling the Roebling Oil Field West, aka the expansion of Warehouse 11, the building perched atop our beloved and cleaned up Roebling Oil Field, is coming along nicely. The photo above is from earlier in the week when the Church of the Transfiguration a block away was being framed nicely [...]

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Someday, if City Council Member Peter Vallone’s new proposal to fight construction site graffiti has its way, messages like this one at the Roebling Oil Field and Roebling Oil Building could be things of the past. For now, however, they are still very much with us. The Warehouse 11 site has remained free of graffiti [...]

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The Roebling Oil Building, aka Warehouse 11, is disliked by some for architectural reason. Very disliked, in fact. Assuming one thinks that calling it “Stalag 11″ is not a good thing. “I thought ‘That looks like a great balcony for a fascist declaration.’ I was pretty sure that the structure would get progressively weaker [...]

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Our old and dear friend the former Roebling Oil Building, now Warehouse 11, looks elegant and alive with spring starting to bloom, yes?

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As we noted last week via an email we got, work has started on an expansion of the Roebling Oil Field project, aka the Roebling Oil Building and/or Warehouse 11. We found the pile driver on scene on Sunday and a petroleum-like smell wafting from the scene, though as far as we could tell the [...]

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A little over a week ago, we noted that a rat poisoning campaign was underway at 475 Driggs, the property immediately to the west of the Roebling Oil Building Warehouse 11. We’ve waiting for something indicating that the property has been sold or that the buildings were going to be demolished. As it turns out, [...]

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Generally, the rats are the first to know that something is up with a property. So, we were fascinated to find that 475 Driggs, the building that shares much of the block to the west of the Roebling Oil Field Warehouse 11 now has a bunch of those big black rat poison things and rat [...]

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This downed sign, which was felled by some sidewalk digging in the last few days, comes from Roebling Street and N. 11, right across the street from our friend, the Roebling Oil Building. Presumably, it’s only down until they stop digging and fix the sidewalk, unless they’re looking for oil…

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The former Roebling Oil Building, now Warehouse 11 or W-11 on N. 11 Street at the site of the former Roebling Oil Field, keeps moving along. We were wandering past the other day, reminiscing about what the construction site still looked like a year ago when oil was oozing from the ground, when we noticed [...]

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While the Department of Environmental Conservation has sent a letter saying that the contamination of the Roebling Oil Field / Warehouse 11 site was confined to that property before a clean up took place, some local residents are skeptical and want to see all the documentation. GL has been told to expect at least one [...]

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The Queens Ledger published a story yesterday that has some good news and bad about the former Roebling Oil Field, which is the site of the new condo called Warehouse 11. The good news is that Department of Environmental Conservation head Pete Grannis sent a letter to Assem. Joe Lentol saying, “Based on our analysis [...]

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Is the Department of Environmental Conservation stonewalling and not turning over reports about all the test wells it drilled adjacent to the Roebling Oil Field (as recently as this fall) where luxe condos are now on sale? That is what a neighborhood activist who’s been working through a State Assembly Member and a City Council [...]

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We could hardly contain our joy at finding banners officially proclaiming the Roebling Oil Building at the former Roebling Oil Field site at N. 11th and Roebling Streets in Williamsburg as Warehouse 11 (or W11 for short). This means the marketing and sales push are full speed ahead in 2008 for the luxe condo that [...]

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The building that we’ve been waiting for–having been photographing and posting about the building site for more than year–is upon us. The Roebling Oil Building Warehouse 11 is on the market. It is “modern industrial design redesigned.” There are eight apartments listed so far and the opening screens of a website, a couple of screen [...]

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With the Roebling Oil Building coming to market as Warehouse 11 in “North Williamsburg,” we’re feeling nostalgic for all the time we spent at the site shooting photos of oil oozing up through the ground as the clean up process was underway. All traces of the oil were gone by late spring as a “protective [...]

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The Roebling Oil Building, now known as Warehouse 11, as it enters the marketing phase (although the banners outside the building and the website haven’t gone up yet), is getting windows. This is exciting to us as we have followed every development at this building since it was just a construction site with a big, [...]

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This is the Roebling Oil Building development known as Warehouse 11 in Williamsburg. We believe it looks especially fetching in green with fall colors.

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There is news to report about the Roebling Oil Building. No, there is no new smell of oil coming from the property or test well being drilled. The building now has a name: Warehouse 11. The news was in a New York Magazine story yesterday looking at some new condos and who will buy them. [...]

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Our weekly check in on the Roebling Oil Field & Building found more evidence on the sidewalks that test wells on N. 11th Street are still giving up Black Gold. We also, interestingly, found barrels lined up marked “Non-Hazardous Waste” that appeared ready for shipment to some entity, possibly the Department of Environmental Conservation. One [...]

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At least one more test well has been sunk to check for oil on N. 11th Street adjacent to the Roebling Oil Field and Roebling Oil Building in Williamsburg. It bring the total number of test well in the immediate area to about a dozen. The lastest well was so new when we came across [...]

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