We don’t know what’s up at City Point, the once grand development planned at a property originally owned by developer Joe Sitt–the Galleria Mall that he promised to turn into the “Belaggio” of shopping malls. (Guess “Bellagio” is Italian for sell it and tear it down?) In any case, what’s signficant about this, other the […]

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This is by no means a new addition to the graveyard of abandoned projects. This sucker has been a member of the Dead Pool for as long as we can remember. Permits for the thing (a vertical enlargement and renovation) to bring it to four stories were filed in 2002. We think work may have […]

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Meet 385 Fourth Avenue, which is not the most solid member of our Dead Pool for project that may be dead in the water, but is start to gain that stench of death. This is supposed to be an 11-story building with 51 units from the shop of Richard Bienenfeld Arcitects in New Rochelle. Now, […]

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This overgrown field was the site of a bakery before it was demolished. Then foundation work was so frantic that it was going on until 4AM some nights and neighbors were calling the Department of Buildings. Now, nothing’s happened on the site for close to a year. It was being developed as a rental building […]

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We’re reluctant to buy a plot for it yet in Green-Wood Cemetery, but if we were to put a wager on 544 Union Avenue, which was supposed to be a huge Gene Kaufman building at 544 Union Avenue in Williamsburg on the site of a former factory, we’d say it was looking a little corpse-like. […]

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