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Back in 2005, Mayor Bloomberg and the City Council rezoned a large swath of Williamsburg and Greenpoint to spark a boom in residential construction, and developers immediately raced in to begin work on luxury high rises. Then the economy curled up into a fetal position, and north Brooklyn is now littered with half-finished development. A team of building inspectors have found 143 stalled construction sites around the city, with the highest concentration in Brooklyn, which boasts a total 63 vacant lots and rusting steel building frames—18 in Williamsburg alone. Residents are increasingly outraged about the degentrication, which is attracting squatters and creating a fin de siècle atmosphere of urban blight. Philip DePaolo, who moved from The Bronx to Williamsburg in 1979, tells the Post his adopted neighborhood now reminds him of his old neighborhood: "It looks like I never left." And it's true—the artisanal cheese, the American Apparel, the burning buildings; life on the mean streets of Williamsburg these days makes the '70s-era Bronx seem like Greenwich, CT.
Nondo Waterfront: Many Brooklyn Construction Projects Stalled
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"....life on the mean streets of Williamsburg these days makes the '70s-era Bronx seem like Greenwich, CT."
Somebody obviously has no clue what the 70's era Bronx was really like.
It was really nice until people fled-the Grand Concourse had amazing apartments. They were soon reduced to rubble... While elected officials did nothing-hmmm
Elected officials did plenty; mostly by raising property taxes to the point where the owner was better off torching the place for insurance.
Somebody obviously has no clue what sarcasm is.
Well if that was sarcasm it was badly done.
I'll bet dollars to donuts the author never stepped foot in the Bronx in the 70's.
If you have a problem with that comparison, blame Phillip DePaolo who made it, not JDS. He's mocking it with the artisanal cheese & American Apparel remark.
And, the guy who made that statement not only set foot in the Bronx in the 70's, but used to live there.
I remember visiting family in the Bronx when I was younger. No way is Willy-B close to the Bronx from back in the day.
I have a friend that was a fire dispatcher back in the seventies and he was always kept busy with all the alarms coming in from the south Bronx. And then all of sudden they stopped coming in. He wondered why until he took a drive up there. The reason they weren't coming in was because there were no more buildings to burn.
I have a friend that was a fire dispatcher back in the seventies and he was always kept busy with all the alarms coming in from the south Bronx. And then all of sudden they stopped coming in. He wondered why until he took a drive up there. The reason they weren't coming in was because there were no more buildings to burn.
If Gothamist ever gets any money I would suggest going out and finding someone who knows how to run a website. Between the slow refresh time and the error messages saying you must sign in after signing in and the double postings that the poster can't edit. It needs some serious work.
Other than that everything is fine and enjoyable.