The East Williamsburg waterfront remains an industrial wasteland, so it should come as no surprise that at least one architect is imagining the neighborhood with a better and brighter future. As part of a design competition, Avoid…
On the western side of Morgan Avenue in Bushwick/East Williamsburg, between Ingraham Street and Johnson Avenue, the only structures of any consequence are a trio of three-story walk-up tenements, faced in vinyl and with a…
285 Grand Street [Brownstoner]: Renderings have surfaced for the planned four-story, two-unit mixed-use building at 285 Grand Street, in Williamsburg. Blue Zees is developing, and David Berridge is designing the project. 357 West Street [The…
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,…