Our class's exhibit was packed up and relocated to Kingsborough Community College, just a few blocks away from where I live ironically.
It's pretty amazing to know that our work is being reused. In particular, that Guy Ambrosino's steel is being re-installed. I feel proud to have initiated contact with him in March, understood the value of what he was doing and voila, have his piece live a little longer.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Newswalk Condo
1997 - Brooklyn plant of the Daily News closes and relocates in NJ due to inability to print 4 color
1999 - Shaya B. Developers (Shaya Boymelgreen) buys 535 Dean Street with hope to have city pass a zoning revision to have a theater on the ground floor with residential space above.
2002- Condos at 535 Dean Street starts selling. NYTimes art :" To renovate the Newswalk building, Boymelgreen Developers had to convince the city to rezone the site from manufacturing to mixed use, a process that took more than two years.
The 88 apartments in the first offering range from $315,000 for the smallest loft (690 square feet) to $1.3 million for the larger of two penthouses (2,500 square feet, with a 2,500 square foot terrace). Two bedrooms with dens (1,700 square feet) go for $699,000 and duplexes, (1,420 square feet) available only in loftlike one-bedroom configurations, are $499,000 to $519,000. In addition, nine apartments with 30-foot ceilings will be carved out of the first floor.
Community Board 8 granted its approval for the project with some reluctance. ''The problem in the area goes far beyond that building,'' said Dennis Drucker, the board's housing chairman. ''We have a horrendous number of factories there that no longer provide employment. Meanwhile, the residential market is insane. Things that couldn't be given away five years ago are now worth half a million.
''The problem is that very few people who grew up in or now live in the district can afford that, and it means the end of possible manufacturing jobs. Unfortunately, though, we don't have a choice, and that is why our committee with some reservations and requests supported Newswalk. We decided that a live residential building is better than a dead factory.''
1999 - Shaya B. Developers (Shaya Boymelgreen) buys 535 Dean Street with hope to have city pass a zoning revision to have a theater on the ground floor with residential space above.
2002- Condos at 535 Dean Street starts selling. NYTimes art :" To renovate the Newswalk building, Boymelgreen Developers had to convince the city to rezone the site from manufacturing to mixed use, a process that took more than two years.
The 88 apartments in the first offering range from $315,000 for the smallest loft (690 square feet) to $1.3 million for the larger of two penthouses (2,500 square feet, with a 2,500 square foot terrace). Two bedrooms with dens (1,700 square feet) go for $699,000 and duplexes, (1,420 square feet) available only in loftlike one-bedroom configurations, are $499,000 to $519,000. In addition, nine apartments with 30-foot ceilings will be carved out of the first floor.
Community Board 8 granted its approval for the project with some reluctance. ''The problem in the area goes far beyond that building,'' said Dennis Drucker, the board's housing chairman. ''We have a horrendous number of factories there that no longer provide employment. Meanwhile, the residential market is insane. Things that couldn't be given away five years ago are now worth half a million.
''The problem is that very few people who grew up in or now live in the district can afford that, and it means the end of possible manufacturing jobs. Unfortunately, though, we don't have a choice, and that is why our committee with some reservations and requests supported Newswalk. We decided that a live residential building is better than a dead factory.''
Monday, April 20, 2009
Research
These are the buildings for which some information (photos/details, surveys, interviews) has been gathered.
485 Dean Street (Freddys Bar)
495 Dean Street (J Campbell's property)
535 Dean Street (Newswalk)
603 Dean Street (shelter)
636 Dean Street (Soap Box)
648 Pacific Street (firehouse)
545 Dean Street (T. Collins)
182 Flatbush Ave (Triangle Sports)
636 Pacific Street (Atlantic Arts)
800 Pacific Street (Wards Bakery)
In addition, there are general area photos of the subway station, street signs against Ratner, etc)
485 Dean Street (Freddys Bar)
495 Dean Street (J Campbell's property)
535 Dean Street (Newswalk)
603 Dean Street (shelter)
636 Dean Street (Soap Box)
648 Pacific Street (firehouse)
545 Dean Street (T. Collins)
182 Flatbush Ave (Triangle Sports)
636 Pacific Street (Atlantic Arts)
800 Pacific Street (Wards Bakery)
In addition, there are general area photos of the subway station, street signs against Ratner, etc)
If I were curator
These were my notes from the mock-up exhibition/review:
1) The blue line of tape was too thick in proportion to the scale of the streetscape. It did not read as an architectural/zoning line.
2)I think there should be more obvious color coding on the board—like color circle or leader lines (possibly in lines of thin tape) to attach the collected data to the street or map location.
3)Photos (i.e historic photos) should be scaled to one uniform size
If I were curator I would take the critics advice and organize each site into TYPE of development – private, partnership, city initiated, organic etc. In doing so, I think the data of each site can be treated uniquely as per the information we have already gathered. I agree with the idea that each site can be portrayed differently. Atlantic Yards for instance may not need a consistent streetscape to define the present context but could benefit from front elevation shots alongside architectural details that hint to existing usages. BAM perhaps can have streetscape images and playbills or theatre literature.
I think the combination of the past and present on the same board is confusing. If the present occupied the main board with the past mounted onto it on .5-inch thick foam core it would help delineate past/present/future periods better.
I think a timeline in a series of rings per year somehow mapped on the floor including all three sites and perhaps branching off toward each exhibition space would be an interesting way of encapsulating everything.
1) The blue line of tape was too thick in proportion to the scale of the streetscape. It did not read as an architectural/zoning line.
2)I think there should be more obvious color coding on the board—like color circle or leader lines (possibly in lines of thin tape) to attach the collected data to the street or map location.
3)Photos (i.e historic photos) should be scaled to one uniform size
If I were curator I would take the critics advice and organize each site into TYPE of development – private, partnership, city initiated, organic etc. In doing so, I think the data of each site can be treated uniquely as per the information we have already gathered. I agree with the idea that each site can be portrayed differently. Atlantic Yards for instance may not need a consistent streetscape to define the present context but could benefit from front elevation shots alongside architectural details that hint to existing usages. BAM perhaps can have streetscape images and playbills or theatre literature.
I think the combination of the past and present on the same board is confusing. If the present occupied the main board with the past mounted onto it on .5-inch thick foam core it would help delineate past/present/future periods better.
I think a timeline in a series of rings per year somehow mapped on the floor including all three sites and perhaps branching off toward each exhibition space would be an interesting way of encapsulating everything.
Thursday, April 16, 2009
AY past
WARD PLANS TO SELL ITS BROOKLYN BAKERY
January 23, 1952, Wednesday
Section: BUSINESS FINANCIAL, Page 40, 214 words
The Ward Baking Company will discontinue operation of its Brooklyn plant soon and has contracted to sell the land and buildings for $950,000 cash, which is considerably in excess of its book value, Faris R. Russell, chairman of the board, told stockholders in the annual report issued yesterday. [ END OF FIRST PARAGRAPH ]
BAKERS SEEK TO END WHEAT-SAVING DRIVE
June 28, 1948, Monday
Section: BUSINESS FINANCIAL, Page 29, 146 words
The first paragraph is not available for this article.
GEO. S. WARD DIES; BAKERY OPERATOR; Co-Founder With Brother of the Firm Here Bearing Their Name Stricken in Havana AN EXPANSIONIST IN FIELD Devised Modern Methods and Aided Research Increasing Vitamin Content in Bread
Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES.
September 4, 1940, Wednesday
Section: Obituaries, Page 32, 614 words
HAVANA, Sept. 3--George S. Ward, well-known American business man of Havana and New York, died here this morning after a brief illness. He was born seventy-three years ago in Pittsburgh. [ END OF FIRST PARAGRAPH ]
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