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Public Place Warehouse Demolition Porn: Possible Lies & a Serious Threat to Public Safety

February 17th, 2009 · 15 Comments

[All photos for GL courtesy of Nathan Kensinger Photgraphy] Boy, we’ve been writing a lot about the warehouse on the Public Place site in the last week. But the hell with writing, GL Contributing photographer Nathan Kensinger, along with a couple of other famed Brooklyn photographic adventurers, got into the site over the weekend. Mr. […]

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Tags: Carroll Gardens · Gowanus · Public Place

Gowanus Green Update: Warehouse Not Part of Plan

February 13th, 2009 · Comments Off on Gowanus Green Update: Warehouse Not Part of Plan

When we screw up, it’s always nice to do so in a big way. So, we were pretty bummed to learn that we’d put some bad information out there the other day regarding the fact that the Gowanus Green project had doubled in size to 1,500 units with the addition of the warehouse that is […]

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Public Place Update: Warehouse Demo Starting Soon?

February 10th, 2009 · 3 Comments

The warehouse occupying a huge portion of the Public Place site between Smith Street and the Gowanus Canal, which was quietly added to the project after a developer was chosen, doubling the size of the development on the toxic site, has been approved for demolition. Word came via an emai from Council Member Bill de […]

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Reminder: Comments Can Still Be Submitted About Gowanus Green

January 14th, 2009 · Comments Off on Reminder: Comments Can Still Be Submitted About Gowanus Green

The Department of Housing Preservation and Development crew, which managed to tick off a lot of Carroll Gardens residents by holding an important hearing in the middle of the holiday and with little prominent pubic notice, has send out another email noting that the period for public comment was extended. It says: We wanted to […]

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Comment Period Extended on Pubic Place Document

December 23rd, 2008 · Comments Off on Comment Period Extended on Pubic Place Document

There was some unhappiness last week that the Department of Housing Preservation and Development scheduled a key hearing in the middle of holiday party season, but more importantly, failed to make sure that work got out in the community about the meeting. The department has extended the public comment period for the draft scope of […]

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Tags: Carroll Gardens · Public Place · Uncategorized

Public Place Asbestos Removal Spurs Concern, Anger

July 29th, 2008 · 4 Comments

The Public Place project has led to new concerns in Carroll Gardens. Yesterday, we got a flurry of emails from several people about asbestos removal work that’s been going on a 455 Smith Street, which is a huge warehouse that was quietly added to the Public Place project after a development team to build Gowanus […]

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Tags: Carroll Gardens · Public Place · Uncategorized

Upcoming: An Update on the Big Public Place Plans

June 25th, 2008 · 1 Comment

There’s an update meeting coming up on the Public Place site between the Gowanus Canal and Smith Street, which will be developed into a large mixed use project called Gowanus Green by a development team that includes the Hudson Companies,the Bluestone Organization, Fifth Avenue Committee and Jonathan Rose Companies. It will take place on Thursday, […]

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Tags: Gowanus · Gowanus Canal · Public Place · Smith Street

Public Place Goes Green. Literally.

May 16th, 2008 · 2 Comments

We were a little surprised to see Public Place painted green when the F Train came around the bend from Smith-9th Street toward the Carroll Street stop. (Insert joke here about how this is why the Hudson Companies called their winning proposal to develop the property Gowanus Green.) We’d shot a photo of the site […]

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Tags: Gowanus · Gowanus Canal · Public Place

Watching the Place: Crushing Machines on Site

May 7th, 2008 · Comments Off on Watching the Place: Crushing Machines on Site

This is the Public Place site between Smith Street and the Gowanus Canal that is under going some preliminary site prep work while remediation plans are formulated for the contaminated land. (Public Place was the site of a Manufactured Gas Plant and left over toxins are deep underground and must be cleaned up by National […]

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Tags: Carroll Gardens · Public Place

Pre-Gowanus Green, They’re Really Digging Public Place

April 21st, 2008 · Comments Off on Pre-Gowanus Green, They’re Really Digging Public Place

After last last week’s excitement about the selection of the Hudson Companies to develop the toxic Public Place site as Gowanus Green, we swung by to check on the progress of pre-cleanup work there. Concrete is being dug up and removed from the site, leading to neighborhood concerns about what will happen if/when contaminants are […]

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Tags: Carroll Gardens · Environment · Gowanus · Public Place

Breaking: Hudson Companies to Develop Public Place

April 16th, 2008 · 7 Comments

The city has picked the Hudson Companies development team to build ‘Gowanus Green‘ at Public Place between the Gowanus Canal and Smith Street. Rogers Marvel is the project architect. The development will include 774 apartments, 38,000 square feet of retail and 100,000 square of open space. A big cleanup of the toxic site has to […]

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Tags: Carroll Gardens · Gowanus Canal · Public Place · Shortlink

City Responds to Public Place Worries, Downplays "Fugitive Dust"

March 31st, 2008 · Comments Off on City Responds to Public Place Worries, Downplays "Fugitive Dust"

The city has responded to concerns about work underway at the Public Place site in a letter sent to City Council Member Bill de Blasio saying that the current preliminary work doesn’t pose a threat, but that a water truck and other steps will be taken to contain “fugitive dust” when concrete removal gets underway. […]

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Tags: Carroll Gardens · Environment · Gowanus · Public Place