Our weekly check in on the Roebling Oil Field & Building found more evidence on the sidewalks that test wells on N. 11th Street are still giving up Black Gold. We also, interestingly, found barrels lined up marked “Non-Hazardous Waste” that appeared ready for shipment to some entity, possibly the Department of Environmental Conservation. One […]

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At least one more test well has been sunk to check for oil on N. 11th Street adjacent to the Roebling Oil Field and Roebling Oil Building in Williamsburg. It bring the total number of test well in the immediate area to about a dozen. The lastest well was so new when we came across […]

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We don’t often post about property that’s on the market, except when it’s particularly interesting land. For instance, one of the properties next to our old friend, the Roebling Oil Field and Roebling Oil Building. Here’s what we have: Look out for 475 Driggs…adjacent to the Oil Field, it’s For Sale. The octogenarian seller is […]

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Another test well was drilled yesterday on N. 11th Street across the street from the Roebling Oil Building. One of the technicians working on the project–who is very familiar with the spill area–called the underground spill “huge,” according to a resident who had a long conversation with the workers. “It’s much bigger than just a […]

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It’s not that we intended to do daily posts about the Roebling Oil Field this week, it’s simply working out that way. First, we had new test well drilled and some documents passed along to us. Then, we had an email from DEC that was forwarded. (Not to mention the illegal Sunday construction work.) Now, […]

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There’s a “localized plume” of oil at the Roebling Oil Field, according to a Department of Environmental Conservation official. The description is in an email that was sent yesterday after our post on new test wells being drilled on N. 11th Street in Williamsburg to several Williamsburg and Greenpoint residents as well as a variety […]

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New test wells have been drilled on N. 11th Street in Williamsburg across the street from the Roebling Oil Field. The latest wells are in front of 213, 215 and 217 N. 11th Street, which is across from the Roebling Oil Field/Roebling Oil Buildling. In July, the Department of Environmental Conservation hired a contractor to […]

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We went over to the Roebling Oil Building, aka 204 N. 11th Street in Williamsburg, yesterday morning to get some photos of new test wells that have been drilled. As a bonus, we discovered a Sunday Construction Symphony coming from inside. (For a long time last fall, as the builders rushed to get the building […]

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Our old friend the Roebling Oil Building, which has sprouted atop the Roebling Oil Field, stopped growing some time ago. Now, it is adding new details every week. We found a wall covered in green, this weekend, clearly being prepped for what is likely to be the building’s exciting exterior. Is it us, or has […]

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A special GL correspondent with a sharp eye for detail, sent us this photo of a Department of Environmental Protection vehicle parked next to the Roebling Oil Field/Roebling Oil Building. He writes that “It isn’t the easiest to tell from this photo but he is actually sleeping. Sound Asleep! Kind of symbolic, huh?” Very. We […]

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We will preface this by saying that we have not personally smelled the oil which is alleged in the following email that was passed along to us, nor have we personally seen evidence of it. However, given that the email comes from the office of a New York City Council Member, we think it is […]

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It’s time for one of our regular check ins on our dear old friend the Roebling Oil Building, which sits atop the gone, but not forgotten, Roebling Oil Field. As the R.O.B. has taken shape and reached its maximum state of expression, its full height and scale has become quite clear. This baby, which is […]

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All hail our guest blogger Bad Advice for reporting in with news of a retail opportunity at our favorite site in Williamsburg, the Roebling Oil Field, which is now home to the Roebling Oil Building: Anyone who’s familiar with the wealth of Texas Tea floating under the Roebling Oil Field will agree with the realtors […]

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From time to time, we’re going to be checking in on our old, close friend, the Roebling Oil Building (formerly known as the Roebling Oil Field). Construction progress has been swift. There are buildings in Williamsburg that stay in the excavation and foundation stage for a year or more. Not our friend, however. This is […]

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We didn’t know there was a Wikipedia entry on the Roebling Oil Field until we got an email telling us that it had been deleted. So, we only know that an entry called “Williamsburg Oil Spill” is gone. What we find amusing, though, is some of the logic for killing it that was voiced by […]

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It seems like it was only yesterday that we were sticking our nose through gaps in the fence around the Williamsburg development site we named the Roebling Oil Field to shoot photos of the oily ooze coming out of the ground. It provided us with so much joy–not to mention a collapsing sidewalk that almost […]

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The old industrial and warehouse blocks of Williamsburg around Driggs and Roebling Avenues from Union Avenue to N. 6th Street and being redone with new buildings. Most will rise 6-8 stories and some will take up significant portions of entire blocks. The latest such project that is coming together is on N. 9th and N. […]

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The Roebling Oil Field Building at Roebling and N. 11th Streets in Williamsburg may be one of the only condos in New York City to come with a pump that will have an oil separator. GL has learned that the building, which is on a site on which significant quantities of oil were found during […]

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We were sniffing for oil…well, actually we were taking note of how quickly the building we call the Roebling Oil Field is rising at N. 11th Street and Roebling in Williamsburg. Then, we looked up and saw that they’d decapitated a stop sign and turned it into another one of those that more suited to […]

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For months, the big blue trailer type thing from which exuded a strong smell of oil, has been parked on N. 11th Street next to the Roebling Oil Field site where McCarren Park Mews is (quickly) rising. It was part of the site clean up effort and, now it’s gone, so we can only assume […]

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One of our readers who is thinking of buying a condo on the near the Roebling Oil field site at N. 11th Street and Roebling in Williamsburg wrote in with some information he had obtained from state Department of Environmental Conservation officials. He wrote in part: I am considering the purchase of one of the […]

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One of the things that has astounded us about the Roebling Oil Field, the development site with oil at N. 11th and Roebling Streets in Williamsburg, is the difficulty of getting public information and of the curious role that the Department of Environmental Conservation has–or hasn’t–played in responding to community concerns. As we have noted, […]

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We were amused to come across this gentelman in Williamsburg shooting video of the Roebling Oil Field, the building site at N. 11th and Roebling Streets that has been oozing oil since last fall. We don’t know if the vids had anything to do with the oil or if he just found it a picturesque […]

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Sorry, readers, we really thought we were done with Roebling Oil Field photos–for the uninitiated, it’s our favorite development site, at N. 11th Street and Roebling in Williamsburg–given that the entire site is nearly covered in concrete. That was before a neighborhood source called us over the weekend and directed our attention to the space […]

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This impossibly cute kitten was rescued from the corner of N. 11th Street and Roebling yesterday, in front of the Roebling Oil Field by the blogger who brings us Bad Advice. She found him a home, then the person who was going to take him apparently didn’t, so as of last night, it looks like […]

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