While part of the Broadway Triangle is still tied up in a hotly contested debate over rezoning and racial politics, developers are quickly moving to build on the remaining lots in the former industrial ‘hood at Williamsburg’s southern edge, like 221 Middleton Street, where plans were just filed to construct a six-story apartment building.
The Department of Buildings recently approved plans to transform a humble three-story brick storefront with apartments in Williamsburg into this metallic-looking six-story building. The century-old building at 555 Grand Street will expand from two apartments to 12, and gain 3,000 square feet of residential space for a new total of 8,668 square feet.
Years ago, a design for a new infill residential building in Northside Williamsburg, at 76 North Sixth Street, was revealed. Designed by Bureau V, the design featured a blinding white façade, apparently made out of…
When industrial buildings are redeveloped into housing, the normal course of action is to raze the old structure and erect a new one. But when the old building has a layout conducive to residential conversion…
If there’s one building type that defines East Williamsburg, it’s the vinyl-faced wood-frame building. Built long ago as modest workers’ dwellings, whatever the original façades were, whether clapboard or brick, have since been refaced with vinyl,…
