We’ve shown this Greenpoint building before, but in a different context. Now, our Greenpoint correspondent reports a commotion at the site and sends along new photos. She writes: When I walked by there, a bunch of firemen were milling about. Two engines had even condoned off traffic on the block. Don’t know why they were […]

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There’s something special about the wide-open demolition site at 296 N. 7th Street, owing to the particularly nasty and dangerous conditions inside the building that is open to the public. On the other hand, it looks like a really cool place for an edgy late-night party. We found the fence so poorly secured on Sunday […]

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Our Greenpoint correspondent sent along the photo of 996 Manhattan Avenue, because she was taken by the steel bracing that extends from said building to the sidewalk in front. She writes: I found this modern-day example of a buttress next door to Pio Pio Riko. As you can tell, it takes up almost the entire […]

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We featured some night shots of this building at N. 10th and Berry, courtesy of our Greenpoint correspondent last week, and had a look ourselves in daylight this weekend. It does not disappoint. The sidewalk has been undermined, the fence is now out in the street and could take your eye out if you’re not […]

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The Empire State Development Corp. has temporarily halted the demolitions on the Atlantic Yards site following yesterday’s “parapet collapse” at Ward Bakery. Curbed reported the development a few minutes ago, and a release from the ESDC is now circulating. Here’s the text of the release: The partial collapse Thursday at the Ward Bakery building created […]

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Truth be told, we hadn’t thought much about parapets before 10:15 yesterday morning, nor had much opportunity to use the word in our writing. Ever. In any case, here’s a little Ward Bakery before and after comparison, to give an indication of just how much parapet would have landed on your head had you had […]

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[Photo courtesy of Brit in Brooklyn] We don’t know if the collapse of a parapet at the Ward Bakery–which is being demolished by Forest City Ratner in its effort to clear blocks of property in Prospect Heights–was a harbinger of things to come or not. What we do know is that (a). it’s fortunate no […]

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The Council of Brooklyn Neighborhoods is holding a noon press conference today at Ward Bakery, which suffered that parapet collapse yesterday, to call for a halt to demolitions for the Atlantic Yards development in Prospect Heights. The group wants an immediate suspension of activity until a “thorough investigation as to the cause of the collapse […]

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We don’t mean to fixate on micro issues like block-by-block construction issues, but the way that a development can come along and do violence to quality of life for its neighbors is fascinating in a car crash sort of way. These days, when we run into someone that we know lives near a construction site […]

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For a development that’s selling itself as offering suburban greenery and a “landscaped oasis,” Urban Green seems to also be creating a hazard to children, pets and moronic adults with impaired judgment on North 6th Street. Why? Its gate on N. 6th is often left open wide enough for a child to stroll through and […]

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If 1504 Eighth Avenue in the South Slope ever collapses into the construction site next door that destabilized it, it will really become a symbol of collateral damage in the Great Brooklyn Land Rush of the Early 2000s. Blogger IMBY notes that the project that has turned life for its neighbors into a small Brooklyn […]

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