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The Real Deal New York - Latest News: Bronx fire razes 14 Bainbridge Avenue shops, Rockrose split was settled by a swift coin toss ... and more
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Soft real estate market helps keep Brooklyn Brewery afloat. http://tinyurl.com/yfr49tf 20 days ago |
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glad @brooklynbrewery is staying put... http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/02/nyregion/02brewery.html 21 days ago |
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Bright side to recession, Brooklyn brewery gets to expand - http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/02/nyregion/02brewery.html 21 days ago |
Bronx fire razes 14 Bainbridge Avenue shops, Rockrose split was settled by a swift coin toss ... and more
The Real Deal New York - Latest News —
... at 36 percent discount [NYT]
4. Brooklyn landlord slapped with fine after refusing to install shower for handicapped, rent-controlled tenant [Post]
5. Bronx fire razes 14 Bainbridge Avenue shops [NYDN]
6. West End Ave. may become historic district [Observer] 7. Swanky Connecticut offices of failed hedge fund sit empty [NY Mag]
8. Brooklyn Brewery thrives as gentrification slows in Williamsburg [NYT]
9. Drunken arsonist targets 9-11 Memorial Park chapel that housed ...
Norwood fire razes 14 Bainbridge Avenue shops, Rockrose split was settled by a swift coin toss ... and more
The Real Deal New York - Latest News —
1. Swanky Connecticut offices of failed hedge fund sit empty [NY Mag]
2. Rockrose split was settled by a swift coin toss [NYT]
3. Brooklyn Brewery thrives as gentrification slows in Williamsburg [NYT]
4. Norwood fire razes 14 Bainbridge Avenue shops [NYDN]
5. Drunken arsonist targets 9-11 Memorial Park chapel that housed victims' remains [NYDN]
6. Thompson offers plan to hold line on rents and fares [NYT]
7. Despite Bloomberg's major efforts, Buildings Dept. ...
Monday AM Linkage
Curbed NY —
[Taxi crash leads to scaffolding wreckage at Broadway and 8th Street, via Neighborhoodr.]
· Even if you get approved for a loan, your apartment may not [NYM]
· Navy's new U.S.S. New York, made with WTC steel, sails here today [NYDN]
· Ouroussoff visits the Grand Concourse re-envisioned exhibit, is touched [NYT]
· Slowing Williamsburg gentrification means Brooklyn Brewery will stay [NYT]
· Charity auction item: free rent on ...
Bar Group Assails Varick Street Detention Center
City Room —
... by a BB while standing outside a “haunted house” for Brooklyn kids and their families, authorities said yesterday. Cyanna Watts, 14, was recovering last night from surgery on her right eye’s shattered lens in the wake of the 7:23 p.m. Saturday attack at Marcus Garvey Boulevard and Macon Street. [New York Post] Housing & Economy The Brooklyn Brewery is taking advantage of the softer real estate market to grab a bigger chunk of space before it could be snapped up and converted into another hotel, store or apartment building. [NYT] The sale of two shuttered Queens hospitals to ...
Brooklyn Brewery Staying Put Courtesy of Weak Market
Brownstoner —
... reduced the competition from other uses like hotels, bowling alleys and upscale markets, and a $800,000 grant from the state, Brooklyn Brewery has managed to negotiate a new lease that will let the beer maker stay put for another five years. “When the recession hit in, like, August or September last year, all of a sudden the landlords here in Williamsburg were looking much more favorably on us as a long-term tenant,” Brooklyn Brewery's founder Steve Hindy told The New York Times.
Soft Real Estate Market Is a Key Ingredient at Brooklyn Brewery [NY Times]
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How the Tables Have Turned: Thanks to the recession, Brooklyn Brewery...
Eater NY —
... Thanks to the recession, Brooklyn Brewery in Williamsburg was finally able to expand in its own neighborhood, an outcome that wasn't so certain two years ago: "'They were all hoping to get the next bowling alley or boutique hotel or Whole Foods or a bank,' Mr. Hindy recalled. Indeed, a hotel is being built across the street from the brewery, and the bowling alley-nightclub has opened next door. But the boom that spawned those concerns ended with the implosion of New York’s financial industry last year." [NYT] ...
Recession Keeps Brooklyn Brewery In Williamsburg
Gothamist —
... Though the Brewery is located in one of the city's Industrial Business Zones, the area had faced encroachment from non-industrial tenants like a planned hotel and the bowling alley/restaurant/nightclub combo Brooklyn Bowl that had driven property values sky-high, Brooklyn Brewery founder Steve Hindy told the Times. “When the recession hit in, like, August or September last year, all of a sudden the landlords here in Williamsburg were looking much more favorably on us as a long-term tenant." ...
Recession benefits some businesses
Queens Crap —
From the NY Times: Less than two years ago, the Brooklyn Brewery found itself in a bind that had squeezed many companies out of New York. It wanted to expand, but the rapid gentrification of its neighborhood, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, had pushed rents beyond what it could afford. That was before the recession took hold in the city. Now, the brewery is taking advantage of the softer real estate market to grab a bigger chunk of space before it could be snapped up and converted into another hotel, store or apartment ...
