Thursday, July 30, 2009

Manhattan District Attorney announces the indictment of a concrete lab director and a building materials testing laboratory

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Manhattan District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau announced today the indictment of a concrete lab director and a building materials testing ...
Thursday, July 23, 2009

Nasty Rash of 311 Building Complaints.

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Shared party walls. Highly contagious rash of 311 complaints strikes contiguous South Slope properties. Armory Heights Plaza seems to be i...
Friday, July 10, 2009

Demo permits for Windsor Terrace Anomaly.

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Last Remaining 17th Street Sleeper Shell to be Put Down. Demolition permits for decades vacant 534 17th Street have been approved. Just a...
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Thursday, June 18, 2009

Who's going down at the Armory Heights Plaza?

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Photos courtesy C.C.G.H. Parking. Parking. Parking. Lots of parking related questions concerning the brand spanking new underground parkin...
Saturday, June 13, 2009

Architectural Voyeurism #22

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Eleventh Street Priorities . Transom Threesome. New coat of saint paint.
Thursday, June 11, 2009

We South Slopers anticipate drinking our $14 glasses of wine from hand made ceramic mugs.

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Two for four. We lived, it was just the two of us back then, for five years in the early Nineties on Eleventh Street, just above Sixth Ave...
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Tuesday, June 09, 2009

Block Hole

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182 15th Street a.k.a. "The Katan Towers" before Board of Standards and Appeals July 2006 reversal of fortune. ...
Wednesday, June 03, 2009

Squatters move in after $16 million Park Slope Armory renovation remains unused.

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14th Street Derelicts in Residence This tip comes to us from our good realtor friends at Acorncoran , whom apparently have an exclusive on ...
Tuesday, June 02, 2009

Getting out in front of the problem... "The challenge before us is primarily one of compliance."

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Breaking news: Independent engineering consultants have determined that NYC developers, contractors, and engineers, are failing to comply w...
Monday, June 01, 2009

Architectural Voyeurism #23: Fourth Avenue Veiled.

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"3 DOORS DOWN FROM THE ABOVE ADDRESS STYROFOAM IS BEING BLOWN THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE NEIGHBORHOOD. ...

Out of the hole. 1638 8th Avenue raises its iron.

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Started in 2001 , now eight epic years in the making, The Bobker Groups 1638 8 th Avenue has finally begun to erect its iron skeleton w...
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Thursday, May 21, 2009

"Grasso" Bill to Prohibit Permits

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Bill to derail deadbeat developers BY Brian Kates DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Thursday, May 21st 2009, 4:00 AM Responding to a Daily News probe,...
Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Planned Obsolescence

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I guess the bloom is off the rose. Found this up on the Buildings Departments BIS web page describing the following complaint... "Re...
Monday, May 18, 2009

Wrecking Brooklyn MMG Style

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L ate night mechanical demolition of 406 15 th Street by our gang over at the Armory Heights Plaza. This audaciously unsafe job was signed...
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Thursday, May 14, 2009

Knitta Please! Brooklyn Craft Gang Tags in Prospect Park

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Crotchet Bomb left on chain-link fence under Prospect Park's Nethermead Arches. Does the gang color Dusty Rose signify the "Knit...