Tag: Williamsburg
While the rest of the city is celebrating that the NYPD slowdown hasn’t given way to a spike in serious crime, robberies are up in one Brooklyn neighborhood. DNAinfo reports that residents of North Williamsburg and Greenpoint have seen a nearly 24% rise in burglaries — the neighborhood’s biggest criminal issue — in the past […]
The grim reaper known as Vice has come for the Glasslands, placing the final nail in Williamsburg’s proverbial coffin. With only eight days left in the converted warehouse, the art space is celebrating what was and what still is and what could be. It’s still adding new art every day, reports BrooklynVegan, and tonight’s free […]
The MTA is exploring the possibility of putting in an entrance at Avenue A for the L train as part of a proposed $300 million dollar plan to improve the overcrowded subway line. According to a press release from the MTA, the L train “runs from Manhattan to the Canarsie section of Brooklyn through neighborhoods […]
Is Vice Media the worst thing to ever happen to Williamsburg, Brooklyn? After spearheading and popularizing the aesthetic commonly known as “hipster,” Vice moved in to Williamsburg more than a decade ago and rent increases followed with the influx of youth and disposable income. The area was on the rise already with members of the […]
The ever changing legal walls on Siegel and White Streets — along the often disputed borders of Bushwick and Williamsburg in Brooklyn — have undergone another round of painting, featuring elaborate new burners by graffiti artists VOR, SEBS, EWOK, GIZ, DUEL, and LOGEK, among others. This latest round of work was sponsored by Evolve spray […]
From The Cloud is a collection of “found footage” internet-based films that will screen at The Spectacle in Williamsburg today, July 15th, and July 18th. The collection focuses on pre-Youtube videos and images, altered by artists Cory Arcangel (Arnold Schoenberg’s Drei Klavierstücke, op. 11-I played by cats on pianos), Hennessey Youngman (“Is beauty still relevant in our future age […]
On Thursday at around 11:00AM, the facade of a commercial building being demolished in Williamsburg partially collapsed, landing on a 32-year-old woman, injuring her. According to eye witnesses, she was taken to Kings County hospital in serious condition. ANIMAL obtained surveillance footage showing the precise moment the wall came crashing down. […]
On the stretch of Graham Avenue between Maujer and Stagg Streets, blocks from the Montrose L Train station, there’s a line of empty storefronts. In a neighborhood as white-hot as Williamsburg, they’re an unusual sight — because they’ve sat unoccupied for at least a year, but also because of their owner: the New York City […]
Yesterday, City Council and Mayor Bill de Blasio agreed on a plan that will allow the redevelopment of Williamsburg’s Domino Sugar Factory to go forward. The deal involved lowering the Area Median Income, which determines who will qualify to rent the new complex’s 700 units of affordable housing. “We came up with a framework that […]
These digital renderings are from an actual pamphlet by a developer who has his sights set on some hot Morgan L-stop adjacent “retail space.” Sent to us by a tipster from Oh, Great, it bluntly and unabashedly features the words “Join the gentrification!” The revolutionary call is complimented with a rendering of the building being split into several […]
