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G'Night Remnants

Are left all over the Burg...This one I especially like.  Peace to my very good friend.  G'Night.

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Berry Street Bend

Berry Street Bend, originally uploaded by jUSTINYC.

This woodframe house is definately something else...from

Williamsburg's passed life.

southside slide

southside slide, originally uploaded by jUSTINYC.

I especially like the way the colors came out on this pic from the Burg. Somehow everything seems to look better to me in reverse.

Pleasing the Beverly Hillbillies on Roebling and a Field guide to Williamsburg

So, Williamsburg made it into Gawker yesterday- they published a "field guide!"  For the most part, its pretty accurate.I suppose this means the Burg has finally arrived.  Brownstoner linked it up, along side a few listings from my buddy LoftNinja.

Meanwhile, over at Gowanus Lounge, there's a bit of talk today about the "Roebling Oil Field" at 223 N. 11th Street.  Forget black gold and texas tea, its a bonified slick fest over there!  The Beverly Hillbillies could certainly be a gang of potential buyers, if someone tracked them down....


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The Cover of the Latest L Magazine "Fitness Issue" and justiNYC Shot It

Be sure to swing by one of those orange bins, located on just about any corner in NYC and pick up the newest copy of The L Magazine.  I, justiNYC shot the cover shot! 

I find it very interesting (albeit, very NYC) to use a photograph of street art to demonstrate the "Fitness" theme that The L is going for this time around.  Even moreso, the irony of this particular piece (by internationally known UK artist, Banksy) on this particular North 6th Street wall (currently slated for development) is especially interesting. To be precise, this Banksy work is gone already. [Curbed] First, it seemingly had a new tenant, then it was gone.[Test of Will]  It just goes to show, everything in NYC does start and end with real estate-even cover photos on entertainment guides.

Few might see it this way- but could it be said that Williamsburg is "shaping up?"  It is a fact that many (if not most) of the Burg's blocks are "losing weight," yet only to double, triple or even quadruple in size in the places where pounds are being shed. Hmmm...  a little real property philosophy to ponder. Don't lose any weight over it.

As many of you may know, this isn't the first time justiNYC has had the pleasure of decorating  L Magazine covers.  The thrill of having around a hundred thousand New Yorkers carrying around your photograph in their back pocket is enough to feel all warm and fuzzy inside....well, maybe not but one damn sure feels as though they have "made it" in NY when it happens.  Here are a few of the other covers and stories I've worked on with the L Mag:

the brooklyn issue [cover/NYC Profile]

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		The Fall Art Preview Is the UN Doomed? Sept 28- Oct 11, 05 volume iii issue 18 [Cover/NYC Profile "Fulton Fish Market"]

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The Love Issue February 01-14 [Profile/Various restaurants]

Put one in your pocket- The L Magazine knows whats up!

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Big Ass Crane Still Gone, Finger Building Goes Black

 

Why does it always have to be a black thing?  At least its better than a crane thing, i suppose.  The in-famous Finger Building on North 7th continues to stay in flux, as the exterior gets covered in black-ness.  Now that's HOT!

Finger Building Getting Hip Black Exterior [Curbed]


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Panoramic Spaces in NYC

Above you will see a Picasa slide show of some of the spaces and places that I've photographed panoramically in the past couple of years.  As a real estate agent, you can imagine the stuff that i get to see.  Well, now you can let your imagination rest.  If you are interested in more, write me.  I have hundreds.  I just thought i might try out this little Picasa hack i figured out.

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55 Berry's Bosom Buddy Gets Bigger

Back in May, justiNYC had a few renderings of buildings that would soon to grace the corner of North 10th and Berry in Williamsburg (and a bit of graffiti archaeology that once graced the walls of the former building that sat there). Today, Curbed showed us the latest update on 55 Berry's bosom buddy- AKA 125 North 10th Street.  I wonder what kind of schemes they have cooked up to sell/rent these beeotches.


It sure would have been nice if someone would have put some effort towards saving this art:



justiNYC had to break into the site after the break down in order to steal a brick.  Its amazing, the lengths to which this rezoning has forced some of us to go to.


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Sorely Missed Street Art in the City that Always Creeps

I just have to say (and I've said it before) that one of the things that I miss the most about Brooklyn (while down here in the Dirty South on break) would have to be graffiti and street art.  When you are as ingrained into a neighborhood as I am, watching buildings and streetscapes change like blinks of an eye, it is the art that keeps even the shortest of walks interesting.  From across the street, I will without fail notice the arrival of any new sticker or scribble, the fresh presence of a new poster and ahhh...the smell of wheatpaste in the morning.  Today, Curbed made me a little nostalgic for my neighborhood route, actually showing me a couple of things that have been added to the streets, undoubtedly within the last 2 weeks.


[apparently freshly posted on the outside of the barrier attached to the "See Through Building" on Bedford and N4th Streets (future of "Williamsburgh Square."-maybe)]

You just can't avoid the truth of the streets!

I would like to also share with all of you an album i have posted on PicasaWeb, jam packed with Street Art from Williamsburg, Greenpoint, Bushwick, DUMBO, etc.  Enjoy!

Street Art

Before the Bedford Ave. Highrise, the See-Through Building [Curbed]
· Peevish Williamsburg Graffiti #1 [Curbed]
· Pevish Williamsburg Graffiti #2 [Curbed]

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An image of Yesteryear

An image of Yesteryear, originally uploaded by jUSTINYC.

I ran across this photo that I took in early 2005- a nice piece of art

that once sat on the corner of Metropolitan Ave and Roebling, in

Williamsburg.

A good reminder, i thought, of how fast things change.

I thought all of you might enjoy. Now, the wall is occupied with new

art and the entrance to Roebling Tea House.

Current View of entire wall.

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The End of 2006 and the beginning of Lucky '07

As 2006 comes to a close, I, justiNYC would like to both thank everyone for all of their nice comments and participation with the blog and share a few of the Flickr albums and concepts that I've devoted to change.  Currently, I am down south working on the organization of a book that I will be publishing sometime early in the new year. I am very excited about the book project and cannot wait for all of you to see it!  Also, I intend to begin my final stretch of school in the up and coming year.  It is my hope that sometime within the next 3 years, i will acquire a "Dr." in the front of my name.  Urban anthropology and gentrification have become an obsession and a passion which I cannot ignore.  As a real estate agent, I have had the rare opportunity to participate and observe while applying anthropological methodologies, hitherto unexplored in such ways.  As an artist, I have come to appreciate the ways in which change can be expressed and the effect that visual representation can have to those far removed from the process. 

I have learned a lot about change in the past year and even more about the effect that real property can have on families, culture and neighborhoods. In Brooklyn, situations become different so fast, that it is hard to imagine anyone being able to totally keep up.  In many ways, I have purposely kept up with the ways that streets and landscapes get altered, by matching them (to the best of my ability) with the intentions of developers, landlords and the tenants that are in a perpetual state of shift.  I have mindfully captured instances that reflect the alarming rate which change can alter the dynamic relationship shared between people and buildings. I hope that so far, all of you find that i have done a somewhat adaquate job of doing so- yet, it will not be until you have the book in your hand that you will see the full scope of what i have set out to do.

In the real estate industry, the "active deal" makes it quite difficult to broadcast certain information to the public, as a real estate agent's paycheck will most always (at least in NYC) depend on that information remaining confidential and only shared among priviledged minds.  When you have no system of MLS to shared across professional platforms, the deal hinges on the fact that such information remains confined to the buyer, seller and the broker.  I am (as most of you are aware) far from being your average real estate agent. Believe me when i say that if i could tell you everything about every deal i have been in the middle of, i would.  However, my own shelter and diet depend on a certain amount of secrecy.  In other words, if i could just be an anthropologist, i would. 

Over the past five years, I have focused on cultural change in North Brooklyn, brought about by gentrification.  I have had the privilege to work with many of the very artists who made the areas of Williamsburg, Bushwick and Greenpoint desirable- enough to excite affluent  Manhattanites on high enough levels to where they would finally leave their blessed borough and explore a side of New York City that (for the most part) had hitherto never been appealing for reasons other than saving money and survival.  Now, Brooklyn has become widely recognized as an epicenter of cultural assent- a place of color and an extension of the New York City that non-natives are no longer warned about, but rather encouraged to hunt.


Goodbye to 2006!

We have seen the fall of the Old Dutch Mustard building at 80 Metropolitan Ave, in Williamsburg



  Pass the Hot Dogs [Cuozzo/Post]

· The Final Days of Williamsburg's Old Dutch Mustard [Curbed]

· Dutch Demolition Porn: The Money Shot [Gowanus Lounge]

· The Rubble That Was Old Dutch Mustard Building [jUSTINYC]
 condomeant [Brownstoner]
 Curbed Found out Old Dutch Sold [justiNYC]
 A Peek Inside Old Dutch Mustard Building [justiNYC]
Condomeant Buildings- Hold the Cheese [URbanfoto]
Williamsburg's Old Dutch Mustard Building- Inside and Out [Curbed]

The conversion of many of the war age buildings along the waterfront in Williamsburg and Greenpoint due to rezoning plan.




The 10 alarm fire at Greenpoint Terminal rocked the very foundations of the waterfront as we knew it.  It dem




· Greenpoint Burning: End-o'-Day Rumor Wrap [Curbed]

· When Smoke Clears, Greenpoint Towers Set to Rise [Curbed]

A few albums for you to check out from my various explorations throughout North Brooklyn:

greenpoint

1758 photos

Changing Williamsburg

2881 photos

Bushwick, Brooklyn

361 photos

Queens

343 photos


Happy New Year New York!

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