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 […]

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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 […]

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Not much is known about the rather large under-construction development on 4th Avenue between Douglass and Butler streets, and there’s a good chance details about the project will remain obscure for the near future, at least from street level. The site is now fronted by a tall aluminum fence instead of the standard-issue wood construction-site […]

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Ah, The Edge. The development site as a huge pit on the waterfront as environmental remediation and removal of debris from the old Eastern District Terminal was done, but now, after a massive foundation job, the buildings between Northside Piers and East River State Park are going up fast. The structures closest to the street […]

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Urban Green in Williamsburg is one of those projects that has taken ages to get moving. But it’s definitely moving. Its sales office on N. 6 Street is now closed and the building is rising on both the N. 5 and N. 6 Street sides. Early on, we nicknamed Urban Death early on in the […]

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