Domino Lights Up the Sky
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Archives for: May 31st, 2007
A Peek At Some Ideas for Governors Island
From New York Magazine Fantasy Island: Five teams compete to make Governors Island an urban paradise. Only one will survive.By Alexandra Lange SEE ALSO:■The Grid■ The Necklace■ The Path■ The Shell■ The Nest Tooling around the outer edge of Governors Island on a glorious spring day, it hardly seems like it would be difficult to […]
Friendraiser Concert in Williamsburg
BENEFIT FRIENDRAISER CONCERT DON’T DEMO DOMINOJUNE 3, 20072 pm to 8 pmGrand Ferry Park, Williamsburg Contact: Mikki Halpin917 860 [email protected]@gmail.com Williamsburg, Brooklyn: Community leaders and local rock bands will gather on the Williamsburg waterfront on June 3, 2007, to participate in a benefit “friendraiser” concert to save the historic Domino’s Sugar Factory from demolition. Concert […]
Domino Calendered
From the NYT Empire Zone Blog May 22, 2007Brooklyn’s Sweetest Landmark?By Sewell Chan The city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission voted today to schedule a hearing on whether to designate the former Domino sugar processing plant in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, as a landmark. The decision today, which was made in a unanimous vote, is the first of three […]
Eulogy for the Purchase Building
From the New York Times May 20, 2007Streetscapes Old Fulton Street, BrooklynFrom Ghost Town to Park GatewayBy CHRISTOPHER GRAY At the foot of the street, a boisterously ornate ferry terminal went up in 1865, but the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge in 1883 drew away much of the traffic. Merchants gradually left, and in 1891 […]
Domino Sugar To Be Considered By LPC
So it will be protected at least in part…. Notice is hereby given that pursuant to blah, blah, blah on Tuesday, May 22, 2007, at 9:30 A.M. in the morning of that day, a public hearing will be held in the Conference Room at 1 Centre Street, 9th Floor, Borough of Manhattan with respect to […]
DUMBO Designation Efforts Continue to Gain Traction
From the Brooklyn Daily Eagle At DUMBO Meeting, Encouraging Signs of Historic Designation by Dennis Holt, [email protected], published online 05-17-2007 The issue of historic designation for DUMBO has been almost an obsession with the DUMBO leadership since its neighborhood association was created 10 years ago.With a strong whiff of success finally in the air, City […]
Opposition to Hudson River Development & Support for South Village Landmarking
From the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, www.gvshp.org GVSHP OPPOSES ‘VEGAS-ON-THE-HUDSON’ PROPOSAL: GVSHP has come out against Related Companies’ proposal for a 600,000 sq. ft., 10,000-seat, nearly $700 million multi-venue mega-entertainment complex on Pier 40 at Clarkson Street. Dubbed “Vegas-on-the-Hudson” by critics, GVSHP believes that Related’s ‘Performing Arts Center’ (PAC) proposal, which they describe […]
Call To Preserve Domino Sugar
From Alice Rich, (917) 612-3284, [email protected] The Waterfront Preservation Alliance of Greenpoint & Williamsburg announced today that it has submitted over 1,500 signatures requesting that the Landmarks Preservation Commission hold hearings to designate portions of Williamsburg’s Domino Sugar refinery City landmarks. WPA is requesting the Landmarks Commission designate the main refinery building, the Adant house […]
Town Hall Meeting Discussing Brooklyn Bridge Park and why it's not really a park
From Bob Stone ([email protected]) This is a last-minute reminder about our Town Hall Meeting:Tuesday night, 7 PMat Founders Hall, St. Francis College, 180 Remsen Street, Brooklyn The issues: – OUR PLAN FOR A TRUTHFUL PARK BUDGET WHICH WON’T REQUIRE HUGE, PRIVATIZING CONDO CONSTRUCTION – RESTORATION OF THE SEASONAL, YEAR-ROUND, INDOOR AND OUTDOOR RECREATION THAT’S BEEN […]