Here’s an up to date shot of one of the buildings going up at the booming intersection of N. 10th Street and Berry in Williamsburg. The building you are looking at–125 N. 10th Street–is next to our old friend, 55 Berry Street. (In case you’re going to wonder what it’s going to look like and […]

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Something tells us the city may not be following its own rules when it comes to repair work on a sewer line in Park Slope. A GL reader emailed at a very late hour to say: For the last three weeks, the city has been working on a sewer repair project in Park Slope, almost […]

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Don’t look now, but our old friend The Modern on N. 7th Street in Williamsburg, to which we’ve devoted much space (for instance, here, here and here), has been hit with another Stop Work Order. You’ll note the image above about workers apparently drilling into, or coming close to drilling into, the L Train subway […]

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Were there warnings before the roof collapse at that building at 90 First Place in Carroll Gardens on Sunday night? Brownstoner has details on the collapse and the Department of Buildings response, including a Stop Work Order. A look at the DOB website, finds 6 complaints lodged against the building since May, including ones for […]

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What you are looking at is the rapid progress being made on 525 Union Avenue, the luxury condo going up behind Our Lady of Mount Carmel, the Giglio church on Havemeyer Street in Williamsburg. One of the reasons that the building has gone up so quickly is that there had been a great deal of […]

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We keep returning to these properties whose official addresses are 157 and 173 Kent Avenue and 224 Wythe Avenue because the demolition process of both the cement plant that originally occupied the site and the building you see reduced to rubble above, has been so weird. About 2/3 of this full block in Williamsburg–across the […]

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Perhaps you’ve followed the tale of the hydrant being used for water by The Modern on N. 7th Street in Williamsburg. If you haven’t, all you really need to know is that neighbors complain the luxe condo building has been a huge pain in the ass and that, now, a water leak threatens possible problems […]

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No, not that kind of Gawker. This kind of gawker. Our Greenpoint correspondent forwarded these images she’d captured in the neighborhood during a morning constitutional on Huron Street, where a crane is hard at work lifting material for 143 Huron, which may be one of the most glared at construction sites in all of Brooklyn. […]

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We’re not saying The Modern on N. 7th Street is better or worse than any other development in Brooklyn in terms of the way it’s upsetting the neighbors, only that we’re getting detailed information about the problems related to it. In the last several days, we’ve had water leaking from a hydrant that could become […]

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Our Greenpoint correspondent found this scrawled on a (pretty crappy) construction fence on Meserole Street in East Williamsburg. We find the message compelling in its way.

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Apartments at The Modern, which is under construction on N. 7th Street in Williamsburg between Driggs and Roebling, are selling for an average of $1M, with one of them priced at $1.8M. Neighbors, however, have been complaining that its construction is causing major problems. On Saturday, we ran a post about the contractors using a […]

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The development known as “The Modern” on N. 7th Street in Williamsburg between Driggs and Roebling continues to be a source of joy to its neighbors. There are serious concerns that it is destabilizing adjoining buildings and that no shoring has been put in place. On Sunday, we took another photo of the way the […]

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So, we were walking in Greenpoint north of McCarren Park when we saw a very familiar piece of machinery standing tall over the local buildings. It turns out the big thing that bangs North Brooklyn was on the scene. Specifically, our friend the prodigious Empire Pile Driver, which torments people all over Greenpoint and Williamsburg […]

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It looks like our good friend 128 N. 10th, the Williamsburg building that has suffered from any number of interesting conditions and that we featured yesterday, has gotten some scaffolding. This could make walking by the building a bit less of an adventure. Or not. In any case, our dedicated and attentive Greenpoint correspondent captured […]

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Our old friend 128 N. 10th Street in Williamsburg earned itself a Stop Work Order recently due to conditions at the work site. We’re no building inspectors, but we believe the situation captured above by our Greenpoint correspondent would be one of the reasons for the order, specifically “No permit obtained for scaffold that exceeds […]

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Now, we’re not structural engineers, but we’re not entirely morons either and what you are looking at, which was submitted to us by the tireless and very attentive Dog Shit Queen of Greenpoint, does raise some alarm bells. It’s the front of a building at 176 West Street in Greenpoint. Miss Heather writes, with uncharacteristic […]

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We love oddly posted building permits, like these, which we found at 53 Hope Street in Williamsburg. The permits in question are posted about nine or ten feet (give or take) off the ground. We had to use our telephoto lens to zoom in on them to figure out what they said. You can find […]

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Ah, Greenpoint. We’ve seen windows being blocked by new construction and, now, we bring you air conditioners being rendered useless by new construction. This latest twist on quality of life augmentation, Greenpoint-style, comes to us courtesy of our very, very attentive Greenpoint correspondent. The building doing the covering is 112 Greenpoint Avenue. The overheated victims […]

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What you are looking at is 224 Wythe Avenue It’s part of a group of properties that includes 157 and 173 Kent Avenue, making up about 2/3 of a Williamsburg block. The building has had two gaping holes punched in it and the entire property has been serving as a locale for photo shoots. The […]

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We’ve had our fun with this construction site, which we’ve dubbed Urban Death because of the questionable way in which it has been secured. And, truth be told, even though it’s improved, we simply can’t understand why there’s still a big gap in the fence and why they refuse to close it completely. On the […]

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We call this gentleman, whose photo was captured and passed along to us by our Greenpoint Correspondent, The Thinker of Huron Street. Here, we find him practicing the Greenpoint Stare while gazing upon his rising neighbor at 143 Huron Street. We are given to understand that he actually has many things to think about including […]

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We came across our favorite North Brooklyn pile driver again. Now, the Empire Pile Driver–Brooklyn’s best bang–has resurfaced at Union Avenue and Ainslie Street, which the epicenter of much Williamsburg construction east of the BQE. Those who’ve heard this baby banging away say that it’s got both size and staying power. That sweet sound of […]

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The building pictured above is 544 Union Avenue. The holes in the roof are new. The building was sold in December for $13.1 million to the Coby Group LLC and ocuments also identify the new owner as McCarren Park Condominiums. Now, what’s interesting is that only one permit (that we can find) has been issued […]

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Williamsburg’s Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church on Havemeyer Street–known for its Giglio Feast in July–is still contending with Sunday construction. A neighbor told GL that repeated calls to the Department of Buildings about illegal construction have failed to produce a visit from the department. (They may produce a visit from one of the local […]

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We have been down this road before with 98 Clay Street in Greenpoint, so we thought a “Now & Then” sort of comparison would be useful. There’s good news–the gaping hole in the fence we showed in March has been plugged up. And there’s bad news–now, the gate is open. Whoopee. Our Greenpoint correspondent who […]

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