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Blight Me: South Slope Icy, Gaping Hole Edition
We firmly believe that developer blight is going to emerge as one of the THE issues of 2009. We’re talking about construction sites that are either abandoned or left to fester for so long that they...
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Blight Me: Williamsburg’s Withers Street
This is the foul scene that greets those walking down Withers Street in Williamsburg to dine at Bamonte’s, an icy sidewalk and crap-ass fence that surrounds the construction site at 544 Union Avenue,...
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Blight Me: Kensington’s 23 Caton Place
[Photo courtesy of Shannon Wagner/Picassa] This abandoned hulk is 23 Caton Place in Kensington. It represents another Blight Me category: the semi-finished abandoned buiding that has gone into...
View ArticleBlight Me Mega-Edition: Burg’s N. 9 Street
[All photos by a GL Reader] We are no strangers to 318 N. 9 Street in Williamsburg. We’ve posted about the crappy and dangerous condition of the construction site more times than we count. For...
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Blight Me: The Chetrit Group’s Gateway to Williamsburg
Every time we walk past the Chetrit Group’s so-called “Gateway to Williamsburg” development behind Kellogg’s Diner, we wonder if we should put toss it into our dead pool because nothing has happened...
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Dead Pool or Stalled Pool or Blight Me? City Point Not Moving
We don’t know what’s up at City Point, the once grand development planned at a property originally owned by developer Joe Sitt–the Galleria Mall that he promised to turn into the “Belaggio” of...
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Blight Me: Added Streetscape Value in Greenpoint
[All photos courtesy of Miss Heather] The horror show you are looking at is 126 India Street in Greenpoint and could serve as a textbook example of developer blight that is increasingly out of control...
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Blight Me: Mr. Scarano Does Burg’s S. 3rd Street, Finds Religion
[All photos courtesy of Miss Heather] First off: We didn’t go into this knowing that 351 S. 3 Street in Williamsburg was a Robert Scarano building. He’s had enough notice. This series of photos for...
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Blight Me: Alleged Starbucks Site at 3rd St. & Fourth Ave.
As we were shooting these photos of the wretched conditions at the corner of Fourth Avenue and Third Street a little African-American boy stopped and asked us, “Mister. Do you know what is going to go...
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