Last month Brownstoner reported that a huge housing and retail complex was coming to a plot of land in Williamsburg, by Keap Street, Grand Street and Borniquen Place. Today the Brooklyn Paper takes a closer look at the development, using the dreaded M word—and not just any mall, either: a strip mall. more ›

While it may not be opening until the Spring of next year, the Limelight Marketplace invited us over today to take a look at the space as it transforms yet again. Photographer Katie Sokoler reports back that, "although it's just a bunch of mini stores, they don't want to be known as a mini mall! It's a market." The folks there also told her that it would be very family friendly (but no club kids), and "Saturdays it will feel like a carnival because they'll have clowns and mascots walking around." Terrifying! more ›