Not all that long ago, before the Brooklyn waterfront became a must-do on seemingly every tourist’s list, Dumbo’s converted warehouses and Belgian-block streets were inhabited by artists and young families, drawn by cheap rents, postindustrial architecture and relative isolation.
But over the last decade, Dumbo’s once desolate landscape has transformed to a teeming waterfront playground. And its now familiar acronym, which stands for Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass, has become synonymous with some of Brooklyn’s most expensive real estate, with a median sales price of $1.5 million through July, according to Streeteasy.com.
Weekdays, Dumbo’s burgeoning media and tech hub brings a steady torrent of jean-clad, Warby Parker-wearing 20- and 30-somethings streaming out of the subways each morning and into converted warehouses that house the headquarters of start-ups like the dating site HowAboutWe, the digital agency Huge and Etsy. On weekends, hordes of tourists descend on Brooklyn Bridge Park and Dumbo’s nearby streets.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/21/realestate/transforming-a-brooklyn-neighborhood-with-new-condos.html?_r=0
September 19, 2014
Unidentified woman crushed by bus in Brooklyn had a crack pipe in her bra
The woman — who is said to be Hispanic and in her 50s — was killed when she was run over by a bus while trying to retrieve a cellphone she dropped. No criminal charges have been filed against driver James Maxwell, who said he did not see her before moving the vehicle.
The woman who was crushed to death while trying to retrieve her dropped cell phone from under a bus in Brooklyn had a crack pipe in her bra, police sources said Thursday.
She had just stepped off the B44 bus about 1:30 p.m. Wednesday in Bedford-Stuyvesant when she fumbled the phone. Just as she went to retrieve it, the bus pulled away from the curb, trapping her under the right rear wheels.
The woman, who appeared to be Hispanic and in her 50s, wasn’t carrying any identification and cops said the phone was too damaged to provide any information.
But cops are hoping several distinctive tattoos will lead them to her identity, police sources said.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/cops-identify-woman-crushed-bus-brooklyn-article-1.1944513
The woman who was crushed to death while trying to retrieve her dropped cell phone from under a bus in Brooklyn had a crack pipe in her bra, police sources said Thursday.
She had just stepped off the B44 bus about 1:30 p.m. Wednesday in Bedford-Stuyvesant when she fumbled the phone. Just as she went to retrieve it, the bus pulled away from the curb, trapping her under the right rear wheels.
The woman, who appeared to be Hispanic and in her 50s, wasn’t carrying any identification and cops said the phone was too damaged to provide any information.
But cops are hoping several distinctive tattoos will lead them to her identity, police sources said.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/cops-identify-woman-crushed-bus-brooklyn-article-1.1944513
NYPD: Police helicopter has near miss with drone over Brooklyn
NEW YORK -- Police say a man has been arrested after an NYPD helicopter had a near miss with a drone in Brooklyn.
CBS New York reports it happened early Wednesday morning over Greene Avenue in Bushwick.
The chopper was helping to search for a missing person when police said the drone came within 50 feet of the aircraft. That's when the helicopter had to suddenly change course, police said.
Isaac Rosa, 34, was arrested for illegally operating the drone, which was equipped with a GoPro camera, police said. He's charged with reckless endangerment and obstructing governmental administration.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/nypd-helicopter-has-near-miss-with-drone-over-brooklyn/
CBS New York reports it happened early Wednesday morning over Greene Avenue in Bushwick.
The chopper was helping to search for a missing person when police said the drone came within 50 feet of the aircraft. That's when the helicopter had to suddenly change course, police said.
Isaac Rosa, 34, was arrested for illegally operating the drone, which was equipped with a GoPro camera, police said. He's charged with reckless endangerment and obstructing governmental administration.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/nypd-helicopter-has-near-miss-with-drone-over-brooklyn/
Police find girl who disappeared from Brooklyn special needs school
Nashaly Perez, 15, was last seen Monday when she sneaked out of Public School 371 in Sunset Park through an unguarded door. Her mother, Sandra Perez Rodriguez, says Nashaly has attention deficit disorder and a history of mental problems. Rodriguez has been in contact with lawyer David Perecman, who is representing the mother of Avonte Oquendo, an autistic boy who fled his Queens school in October and died. http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/police-strongly-found-girl-disappeared-brooklyn-article-1.1944108
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July 29, 2014
Abuse suspect dead; NY policeman and 2 marshals hurt
A California man who skipped town after being accused of molesting a boy was killed and three officers trying to arrest him were hurt in a daytime shootout inside a small smoke shop in one of New York.
The shootout Monday between Mozdir and members of the New York/New Jersey Regional Fugitive Task Force happened just after 1 p.m. in Greenwich Village not far from New York University in a highly trafficked tourist area bounded by jazz clubs, restaurants, a subway station and a basketball court.
July 28, 2014
Brooklyn's Sunset Park Is Hefty Bet for Developers, New York City
Investors Want Neighborhood to Return to Thriving Industrial Area of Yesteryear...
The city and private developers are investing hundreds of millions of dollars to create a thriving industrial area on the Sunset Park waterfront, a throwback to the days when workers streamed from nearby neighborhoods into factories that lined Brooklyn's shores.
Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration plans to pour $100 million into renovating 500,000 square feet of the Brooklyn Army Terminal, the former U.S. naval-supply base the city has been transforming over the past three decades into warehouse and manufacturing space.
Jamestown Properties, Belvedere Capital and Angelo Gordon a year ago bought a 49% stake in Industry City, a 6 million-square-foot complex trying to emulate the success of Chelsea Market. They are leasing space to food manufacturers that have attached retail spaces, in the hope of creating a destination for neighborhood shoppers and eventually tourists.
And Marvin Schein, who owned a medical- and dental-supply company, and partner Sal Rusi have put about $80 million into renovating Liberty View Industrial Plaza. They plan to position the two 1916 buildings, developed as naval-supply centers during World War I, to attract technology companies and tenants priced out of the Garment District.
Sunset Park is an important bet for Mr. de Blasio's administration. As many of the city's faded industrial areas have been rezoned for residential development, the neighborhood has retained a core of massive buildings for commercial uses and a large immigrant workforce living nearby.
The initiative envisions a revitalized community where working-class residents pay rents they can afford, then walk to stable jobs generated by a blossoming small-manufacturing sector.
Making that vision a reality is more complicated.
After decades of neglect, roads in Sunset Park are filled with potholes, some sewer lines are aging and walking from the residential areas to the factories requires a nerve-racking trip across the Gowanus Expressway. Fixing all that will require significant investment.
Residents also complain about poor air quality and that they have little access to the neighborhood's 2.5-mile stretch of waterfront. A park that the Economic Development Corp. promised to create has been delayed by more than a year. It also has been scaled down from what the community hoped to see, including the elimination of a second entrance, children's playground and environmental center. The park is now set to open in about a month.
As more than a million square feet of new space comes online in the area, it could also be a test of whether the city's small-manufacturing sector is primed to become more than a niche part of the city's economy. While food manufacturing provided about 15,000 jobs in the city in 2012, a sector such as construction employs more than 110,000.
However, food manufacturing jobs have increased nearly 8% since 2008, according to a recent report from the city's Independent Budget Office. A number of types of manufacturing saw steep declines, such as apparel manufacturing, where jobs decreased more than 25%.
Read more: http://online.wsj.com/articles/brooklyns-sunset-park-is-hefty-bet-for-developers-new-york-city-1406512061
The city and private developers are investing hundreds of millions of dollars to create a thriving industrial area on the Sunset Park waterfront, a throwback to the days when workers streamed from nearby neighborhoods into factories that lined Brooklyn's shores.
Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration plans to pour $100 million into renovating 500,000 square feet of the Brooklyn Army Terminal, the former U.S. naval-supply base the city has been transforming over the past three decades into warehouse and manufacturing space.
Jamestown Properties, Belvedere Capital and Angelo Gordon a year ago bought a 49% stake in Industry City, a 6 million-square-foot complex trying to emulate the success of Chelsea Market. They are leasing space to food manufacturers that have attached retail spaces, in the hope of creating a destination for neighborhood shoppers and eventually tourists.
And Marvin Schein, who owned a medical- and dental-supply company, and partner Sal Rusi have put about $80 million into renovating Liberty View Industrial Plaza. They plan to position the two 1916 buildings, developed as naval-supply centers during World War I, to attract technology companies and tenants priced out of the Garment District.
Sunset Park is an important bet for Mr. de Blasio's administration. As many of the city's faded industrial areas have been rezoned for residential development, the neighborhood has retained a core of massive buildings for commercial uses and a large immigrant workforce living nearby.
The initiative envisions a revitalized community where working-class residents pay rents they can afford, then walk to stable jobs generated by a blossoming small-manufacturing sector.
Making that vision a reality is more complicated.
After decades of neglect, roads in Sunset Park are filled with potholes, some sewer lines are aging and walking from the residential areas to the factories requires a nerve-racking trip across the Gowanus Expressway. Fixing all that will require significant investment.
Residents also complain about poor air quality and that they have little access to the neighborhood's 2.5-mile stretch of waterfront. A park that the Economic Development Corp. promised to create has been delayed by more than a year. It also has been scaled down from what the community hoped to see, including the elimination of a second entrance, children's playground and environmental center. The park is now set to open in about a month.
As more than a million square feet of new space comes online in the area, it could also be a test of whether the city's small-manufacturing sector is primed to become more than a niche part of the city's economy. While food manufacturing provided about 15,000 jobs in the city in 2012, a sector such as construction employs more than 110,000.
However, food manufacturing jobs have increased nearly 8% since 2008, according to a recent report from the city's Independent Budget Office. A number of types of manufacturing saw steep declines, such as apparel manufacturing, where jobs decreased more than 25%.
Read more: http://online.wsj.com/articles/brooklyns-sunset-park-is-hefty-bet-for-developers-new-york-city-1406512061
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