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11 Spring Street Art Scraps

justiNYC has slightly elsewhere and unfortunately found himself unable to make it inside the Wooster Collective Art show at 11 Spring Street over the weekend.  Nevertheless, these shots were taken last night of the outside during a brief excursion into Manhattan with buddy, M. Sayyid.  Here's some of the leftover 'scraps' we saw.

Sayyid chillin

Closing time at 11 Spring.  Sayyid and I just missed it.
DAMN!

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11 Spring Street has been a Wooster Art Collective open format show of the work from (at least) 45 internationally known street artists-with of course heavy representation from NYC. At the end of the show, the building is being converted into condos.  Enjoy (while you can)!
Check out Wooster

Here are some videos:
11 Spring Street
Cheeky Signs Piece at 11 Spring St., New York
11 spring street, line walk (sunday afternoon)
11 Spring Street
11 Spring Street - Final Explosion of Street Art
Wooster on 11 Spring, just a quick walk through
Art House

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Williamsburg will soon have nice racks

 
According to a draft plan (above) that the Streets Blog acquired, Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg is undergoing some major changes. As the Streets report

"the plan calls for the elimination of five motor vehicle parking spaces
on N. 7th Street at Bedford Avenue, alongside the subway station
stairwell on the southeast corner (see the corner at the bottom of the
diagram)." 

We will have to wait for the Department of Transportation for an official press release for more information. The plan is expected to remove 5 parking spaces on North 7th Street in order to widen the sidewalk, making room for more bike racks.  Great! So now, Williamsburg will have more room for weekend junk hustlers. Besides, how easy is it to park around that N7th/Bedford madhouse anyway? Fuggitaboutit! But, how many Wall Street kids ride bikes to work? Hmmm
Just last year, the cops were sawing the locks off of bikes that had been secured to the Bedford Ave Station entrance.  A buddy of mine had his impounded for obstructing the sidewalk-(the very sidewalk that is planned for widening).

Gothamist asks the question of whether or not the DOT adding more G and L service would help the (totally packed) chaotic commute to this area brought on by the ridiculous numbers of new residents migrating to the area.  Last year's rezoning is expected to bring 40,000 newbies in this Brooklyn hood within the next decade. Hope they bring bikes!

Will this help the Car Free Bedford initiative? I suppose we'll have to wait for that as well.

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Williamsburg Movie Theatre Update- Rated "R" for "Really dirty"

Remember the Williamsburg Movie theatre that's being built at 136 Metropolitan?  All seeing Brownstoner does, of course.  Its gonna be a blockbuster for sure.  Caught this shot of the interior as it stands presently, from the soon to be back entrance on North 1st a couple of days ago.
and the front:



Williamsburg Movie Theatre Update [Brownstoner]
Catching Up in the Burg: Movies and Manufacturing [Brownstoner]

The Future Home of Cinema in W'burg [justiNYC]

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New way to demo a property- hire your "hipster" tenants

This is what happens when you tell your tenants that A) they have to
move out of their $5000+ per month Brooklyn "loft" because B) you are
planning to tear the building down to make way for space elevators and
starbucks.

Sure, it costs a lot of money to demo a building these days (brick by
brick), but it looks like with a little help from the hipsters, you
might be able to get off pretty cheap.  Perhaps Gutman should have
just hired the "Hipster Wrecking Crew"...

[this place is/was 3 blocks to Bedford L train in Williamsburg]

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The Rubble that was Old Dutch Mustard Building

What you have before you is the site where the Old Dutch Mustard Building once sat.

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Black Opz at the Bowery Poetry Club

Want to see the next stage of HipHop evolution?  Black Opz blends drum-n-bass, ill freestyle and stylized rhymes, dub and experimental rhythm to form some of the most interesting music you've heard in a while!  Check out the videos that i took last friday (the 13th) at Bowery Poetry Club in Manhattan.  Stop by and see my buddies Hired Gun and MC Aero for some tracks that  are sure to leave you spinnin in your seat on your head!  Are you ready?

[Black Opz] justiNYC Google Page

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Non-Profit Real Estate Group GMDC Buys Factory Building East of Williamsburg

Last week, Greenpoint Manufacturing and Design Center bought this beauty at 221 Mc Kibbin with a $4million grant.  GMDC plans to tranform it into at least 25 spaces for small manufacturers, creating more than 100 jobs for local folk.  They hope to be finished with this big boy in the latter part of 2007.  The Brooklyn Borough President's Office is even pitching in- a cool half million! Gotta love help from the pres...

[Real Deal] Williamsburg Factory gets $4M grant
[Crains] East Williamsburg Plant gets $4M grant   [I love how Crains made this rhyme..haha]



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The Future Home of Cinema in Williamsburg

Thats right...movies! 136 Metropolitan Ave [between Metrop. & North 1st] will soon be the premier place to go
and (after taking out a mortgage on your hole in wall in NYC) afford (maybe) a descent flick in the theatre. It doesn't look like much now, but it is destined to be BIG, expensive and (as Curbed promises,
"indie"). As to exactly how big....its hard to say, considering the fact that the building is already 2,108sf over F.A.R [link].

It won't be hard for Wburgers to remember this building as it currently is, as the gigantic FOR SALE sign has been dangling out front since before Bushwick was a place to move to.  Even harder to forget will be the sign that came after if was sold, as I believe it must've been the crowning achievement in that agents life- the SOLD sign still hangs to this day.  For a while, a few of us in the hood have wondered whether he might take private little walks over to the building in the middle of the night, just to see if it was all a dream.  Ahhhh...real estate and its hidden pleasures.

[Curbed] Curbedwire: Williamsburg, Warts and All
[Curbed] Storefronting: Time for a Name Change?

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Old Dutch Mustard Gets the BIG "D"

Curbed (finally) reports that the Old Dutch is being demolished.  It is.  That netting is to keep the mustard dust off of the tourists and those so called "Hipsters" I keep hearing about.  Here are a few of my shots:

...in Williamsburg, D stands for ....D E M O L I S H

For the record, asbestos was removed from Old Dutch 30 yrs ago, according to a reliable source.  Nevertheless, she will be missed.

Here are some links to cry to:

[URbanfoto] The View inside Will Most Definately change too
[Curbed] Williamsburg's Old Dutch Mustard Building, Inside and Out
[URbanfoto] A Peek inside the Old Dutch Mustard Building

· A Peek Inside Old Dutch Mustard Building [Urban Foto]

· View from Old Dutch Mustard Building [UrbanFoto]

· Old Dutch Mustard Building on Block for $25m [Brownstoner]
Salvaged Items from Old Dutch Mustard [Brownstoner]
[Curbed] The Most Expensive Mustard Ever
[justiNYC] Old Dutch Mustard Building Ready for the Ball

and finally, A Flickr Set by justiNYC Old Dutch Mustard Reveiled

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West Indian Day Parade 2006 in Crown Heights Brooklyn

This year's West Indian Day Parade 2006 was of course off the hook!  I traveled down to Crown Heights via G train [transfer C] and stopped by a buddy's [you guys might know him as RunsWithScissors] new house for some BBQ before venturing over to the Carribean Eastern Parkway.  I always enjoy this parade!  The colors are like nothing else that happens in a year- unless of course you are in the Caribbean.  The food [jerk chicken, corn, etc.] was terrific of course, but the music was the highlight.  There's just something about reggaeton and roots that can transform a crowd into a wave of motion- fully body pulse factory.
I most enjoyed Crown Heights today, as i have had only a little experience with the neighborhood.  Its truly remarkable and some of the homes that I saw today look like any idea of brownstone Brooklyn that you might have floating around in your head.  Many, i would say, belong in a book.  Perhaps, I'll just put a few in mine.
Here are a few of the shot i got from the parade.  Lemme know what you think!  The full set [to and from] is here

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