New Williamsburg Tall Building Smackdown Coming

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The whole idea of cookie-cutter, suburban high-rises is disgusting for that area. Near the water, fine, let it be. But interdispersed throughout lowrise Williamsburg's northside?? That's irresponsible development, bigtime. Go much lower dense! Protesters get goin...

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i live near here and want to attend the community board meeting!! any info and when/where? who exactly is this 'organized posse'?

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I think the meeting is at the senior center on ainslee street? yes? anyone?

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If you want low-rise, move to the suburbs. This is NYC...

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4: Right on. I live in Williamsburg and I can't wait to see these new developments rise from the slums. Get that foundation going!

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#4, it's called smart development. You could refer to Jane Jacobs "the death and life of Great American Cities." A wonderful read that most city dwellers and developers should all take a peek at.
I sure as hell don't think demolishing low-rise 3 and 4 story buildings in a mainly low-rise neighborhood and replacing them with a 20 story ugly tower is a smart development, nor does it have the neighborhood's best interest in mind.

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fine, build it up. but why make it look like that? this is a suburban building because it assaults the pedestrian. that design belongs in a corporate park surrounded by parking lots. it ain't urban.

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Regarding number four's comment, I wholly agree. Regarding number five's remark, I used to live across the street from this soon to be pillaged corner and my personal feelings on the aesthetic failings and historical inevitability of development aside, I would have to say that it is not a series of pretty buildings going up but a refacing, economic, social, and artistic, of New York City.

My only point is: a neighborhood is small, charming, intimate - it catches on. People move there, it gathers buzz, shops open, it becomes hip, buildings go up, book stores become Subway sandwich shops and the chains move in to make way for the fact that we threw out the people that gave the neighborhood its original appeal in order to build homes for the people who heard it was cool.

It is a dialetic, I realize that, but anyone who thinks a) architecture is without impact and b) real estate is not the most powerful economic demon of New York...

Has never worked in either.

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just build it. who cares. what's the point in fighting. just a waste of energy. this is life. sad but true.

10.

I heart, you need an antidepressent badly.

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#2&3: second Tuesday of the month, Swinging 60s Senior Center, 211 Ainslie Street at Manhattan Avenue. Call 389.0009 for the time. (that's EVergreen 9 for you new comers.)

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actually i have confirmation that there is a land use meeting is at 6:30 at:

Brooklyn Community Board 1
435 Graham Avenue,
Brooklyn, NY 11211
Phone: 718.389.0009
Fax: 718.389.0098

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When did 15 floors become a high-rise? Also, look at what's there right now... I don't live far from the proposed development and personally this isn't an unwelcome addition. If the developer was demolishing a brownstone or rowhouse, I'd probably feel otherwise. But this is trashed out warehouse.

Although- I wish they had increased the height of the street wall... But that's the Planning Department's fault for not zoning for a bulkier building envelope that redistributes square footage from the tower to the street wall.

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i am under the impression that this building was, long ago and faraway, a movie theatre. shucks.

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The building used to have a second story and was a furniture store. Before that, in the 19th century the site housed a bookstore.