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By: Curbed
27Jul2010With the City Council set to vote on (and likely approve) the redevelopment of Williamsburg's old Domino Sugar refinery this week, a new minor controversy! The developers dangled the carrot of affordable housing making up 30% of the project to...
By: Curbed
23Jun2010Now that the City Planning Commission's consideration of the controversial New Domino project, which would convert the former sugar refinery into a 2,200-unit complex, is finished, what's happening while we wait for the City Council vote? Politics! T...
By: Curbed
17Jun2010WEST VILLAGE—A courtesy bike from 20 Exchange Place made it all the way up to the West Village, proving that it is possible to successfully escape the Financial District. [CurbedWire Staff] EAST VILLAGE—The Rent Guidelines Board is...
By: Curbed
7Jun2010Click the image above to view the full photogallery. HARLEM—Parties, price cuts, iPads—there's always something interesting going on at Fifth on the Park. Now the developers of the FXFowle-designed tower at Fifth Avenue and 120th St...
By: Curbed
7Jun2010The City Planning Commission voted 13-0 in favor of plans for the New Domino development today, sending the controversial conversion of the old Williamsburg waterfront sugar refinery into a 2,200-unit mini village to the City Council. The area's coun...
By: Curbed
1Jun2010Italian artist Bernardo Siciliano's 1999 oil painting of Williamsburg's Domino Sugar refinery was auctioned by Sotheby's in Milan for a winning bid of 34,350 euros, more than double the auction estimate. Based on what a seventh grade painting teacher...
By: Curbed
6May2010For perhaps the first time in the history of Williamsburg's New Domino project, developer and opponents are up in arms about the same thing: a 2006 city report showing the developers could make $382 million to $447 million in profit....
