There was a fatal accident yesterday at a 13-story building under construction at 525 Clinton Avenue. A worker plunged 13 stories to his death when scaffolding collapsed and another was seriously injured. A third worker was unhurt. Brownstoner had both an early report and a follow up yesterday. An early eyewitness report said a worker […]

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Last week, we had some photos of workers doing what appeared to be asbestos removal on the building at the corner of N. 9 and Roebling. Today, we feature this lot at 261 N. 9 because it is such a wretched mess. The fence is down and the lot has been used for dumping…for a […]

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This empty lot at 14 Bayard Street was the site of the Beauty Addiction Building until it came down last year and is the future site of a five-story building that will fill in the last hole on Karl Fischer Row. It was last noted when the demolition left the building next door a little […]

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That was quick. The Department of Buildings pounced on what looked like a very unsafe excavation operation at the Minerva Building site (614 Seventh Avenue) in Greenwood Heights yesterday. We posted photos yesterday sent by Concerned Citizens of Greenwood Heights. By afternoon, the group had sent word of a Stop Work Order and new photos […]

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We had some photos of the mess outside the so-called Minerva Building site at 614 Seventh Avenue in Greenwood Heights, but were not going bother with them since the real mess appears to be inside the construction fence. Concerned Citizens of Greenwood Heights sent out an email last night that seem to show some dangerous […]

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After several weeks of work removing asbestos at the Clarett Group’s 340 Court Street in Carroll Gardens and a host of reports of bags of unknown substances being tossed from the roof after midnight, asbestos removal signs have finally appeared. Our correspondent notes: This sign is at 340 Court street on the Union street side. […]

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Followers of construction-related mayhem in the South Slope might recall the South Slope Crack Building. It’s formally known as 406-408 15th Street and has caused an exceptional amount of upset among neighbors as well as such severe damage to a neighboring building that it had to be evacuated in the summer of 2006. Well, the […]

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It would appear that 355 Union Avenue, which is next to 365 Union, a building going up in the booming Union Corridor, ended up as collateral damage. This photo was filed by our intrepid Greenpoint Correspondent, who ranges far and wide. The building that caused the problem comes from the studios of Robert Scarano and […]

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First, the interesting development related news: Work appears to be getting underway to make way for a new Karl Fischer building at the corner of Roebling and N. 9 Streets in Williamsburg. Now the rest of it: We know this because on Sunday, a big crew of workers was up on the roof of the […]

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The Clarett Group’s 340 Court Street development has generated some controversy over its asbestos removal in terms of (a). neighbors saying that they weren’t adquately notified when it started, (b). the big inflatable rat it attracted last week and (c). work going on until midnight and later, including reports that workers are tossing bags of […]

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We got three emails yesterday from three different people last night and in the very early hours of this morning about goings on at 340 Court Street. It appears that workers doing asbestos removal continue to toil late into the night. One neighbor reports five men “tossing construction debris” off the roof into a dumpster […]

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If only Anthony “Tough Tony” Anastasio were around to have seen the big inflatable rat outside the former International Longshoreman’s Association Building on Court Street yesterday that once bore his name. (Mr. Anastasio, who died of natural causes in 1963 and kept his position with the ILA even after his brother Albert Anastasio was killed, […]

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This is 2 Marcy Avenue, which is currently a mess, at least, in terms of its fence falling down. This photo is about a week old, and since we took it, most of the fence on Metropolitan Avenue has come down too. It’s unclear what’s going on with this lot, which is actually the more […]

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Today’s featured construction site comes to us from Carroll Gardens and it’s one that the Department of Buildings has actually noted. Like all our favorite construction sites, the fence at this one has apparently come down a bunch of times, but we haven’t gotten any photos of it opened up. DOB issued a Stop Work […]

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We got a call from a neighbor of The Modern, the controversial development on N. 7th Street in Williamsburg that work crews were busy working yesterday when they shouldn’t have been. (The photo at right was taken in mid-afternoon.) The building has caused much unhappiness in the hood due to some of the damage it […]

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We’re a day late and dangerously close to a dollar short in posting this, but we figure that it’s still worth pointing out that the Union-Sackett Block Association is having a meeting today (1/12) at 11:30AM at the Carroll Gardens Library. Representatives from both State Sen. Martin Connor’s office and Rep. Yvette Clarke’s office will […]

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There something interesting looking about 210 N. 10 Street in Williamsburg as it come down and its walls briefly look like those of a burned building that has partly collapsed. The chairs in the lot next to it with the rubble also add a nice touch and we also like the upright vacuum in front […]

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[Photo courtesy of Union-Sackett Block Association Blog] The other day, Carroll Gardens blogger Pardon Me For Asking, posted some photos of the mess outside 340 Court Street. Meanwhile, the new Union-Sackett Block Assocation has a post about asbestos removal at the building. (A document filed with the Department of Environmental Protection shows that the asbestos […]

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The Modern, the Robert Scarano-designed building on N. 7th Street in Williamsburg, is ready to rock again. We got a call from neighborhood activist Phillip Depaolo who noted that construction equipment was arriving at the site and that the Stop Work Order that was slapped on the site in the summer had been lifted. Fans […]

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After all the drama associated with the ugly demolition of 5 Roebling, aka the Giant Fart Cloud Building, we can report that everything is down and has been carted away. In fact, we can confidently report that the site is clean because part of the fence is down and the site has been left open, […]

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We return to the formerly nasty demolition site at 568 Union Avenue, which was the Manhattan Chocolate Factory, due to the fact that its construction fence seems to be demolishing itself. The site–which still has dumpsters full of debris–is open to the public and the fallen fence itself offers up rusty nails. The Department of […]

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We swung by the atrocious demolition site at 5 Roebling Street in Williamsburg formerly known as the Giant Fart Cloud Building and found a busy situation. Workers were patching a wall of a neighboring building that had been damaged during demolition. We watched a huge trailer pull in and hoist a dumpster until it stood […]

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In contrast to most site around Williamsburg yesterday, which were buzzing with weekday construction work, 568 Union Avenue was quiet. (This is slightly ironic in that when demolition was going on some neighbors stuck “No Weekend Work” stickers on the fence.) That was then, however, and this is now. For now, 568 Union is quiet. […]

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For a symbol of everything that is wrong with the system regulating demolition, construction and development in New York City and Brooklyn, look no further than 5 Roebling Street, aka the Giant Fart Cloud Building. Demolition work was stopped temporarily last month after a neighboring building was threatened. The demolition is back in full swing […]

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Work is underway at the big site between Bedford Avenue and Berry Street and N. 3rd and N. 4th Streets in Williamsburg. Part of the property is the site of a big Quadriad development. There are several parcels with different owners on the block and there have been a variety of safety issues, like the […]

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