Tag: Williamsburg

Arts & Culture
05/29/13 11:00am

Street Art Hotspot: “I Bet You Wished You” Billboard on the BQE in Williamsburg

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I Bet You Wished You Billboard

This street art find by Untapped Cities reader Nicole Bernier is on the Brooklyn Queens Expressway (BQE) in Williamsburg Exit 33, McGuiness and Humboldt Street exit. Most people passing it probably just wish they weren’t sitting in traffic, but we like the provocative nature of this typeface street art placed on one of the many empty billboards that have dotted major NYC highways since the economic downturn. Amazingly, “I bet you wished you,” has been up since last year.

Get in touch with the author @untappedmich. Hashtag your photos #untappedcities to submit to our photo pool.

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Featured
05/17/13 2:00pm

Smorgasburg’s Culinary Delights

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Food & Drink, New York
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Brought to you by the same people who run Brooklyn Flea, Smorgasburg, is a gastronomic delight. Smorgasburg is open, rain or shine, from 11:00AM to 6:00PM on Saturdays, in East River State Park (Kent Ave. and N. 7 St. on the Williamsburg waterfront), and on Sundays it is located in the Tobacco Warehouse in Brooklyn Bridge Park. The vendors feature packaged and prepared foods, beverages, and more from purveyors from New York City and across the region, for a total of 75-100 vendors. We recently interviewed Jonathan Butler and Eric Demby, the creative minds behind Smorgasburg.

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Architecture
05/09/13 11:00am

Behind the Scenes at Domino Sugar Factory Construction with Two Trees

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New York
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New Yorkers are only learning about the grandeur and glory of the Brooklyn waterfront just as its industrial past fades and dies. For much as we like to talk about “reopening” the waterfront to the public, the truth is that the waterfront was historically closed so long as it was industrial. And nowhere was that more true than in Williamsburg, where the immense sugar refineries and warehouses ruled the East River from the Civil War foreword, barring all casual wanderers. Sugar’s reign came to a whimpering end in January 2004 when the American Sugar Refinery Company shut down operations at the Domino Sugar refinery site. A few months later, the 11-acre site was sold to developers for $55 million.

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Food & Drink
05/02/13 10:28am

The Creative Minds Behind Smorgasburg

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New York
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Since its creation in 2011, Smorgasburg has creation quickly become one of the hippest places to hang out and get a bite. Little did we know about the creative minds behind the market and that’s why our meeting with one of them, Jonathan Butler, on a fresh April morning, was full of surprises.

The location is slightly different this year, as the Saturday market now takes place at the East River State Park in Williamsburg. The Sunday market is still at the Tobacco Warehouse in DUMBO. What changed as well, are the vendors, as there are over 20 new ones. From Monsieur Singh’s Indian Lassis to The 3 nuts, offering delights such as Salted Caramel Peanut Butter, to Orwashers with their traditional NYC bread loaves, there is something for everybody.

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Architecture
03/18/13 8:43am

The Shipping Container House in Williamsburg

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New York
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In our East River Ferry/#untappedcities Instagram contest for the most “Untapped” photograph last fall, we chose this image of a shipping container house in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, submitted by Reuben Hernandez. On Friday, Inhabitat brought readers inside the house, which has finally been occupied by its owner-designers. It’s made of 6 shipping containers, purchased at $1500 each, and insulated with NASA ceramic infused paint. We love what the owner has done with the materials, enabling balconies, natural light and patio spaces.

Photo by Reuben Hernandez

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Architecture
03/07/13 9:23am

Inside the Domino Sugar Refinery

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New York
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The cavernous interior of the Domino Sugar Refinery’s Raw Sugar Warehouse.

Situated on an eleven-acre parcel of waterfront in the shadow of the Williamsburg Bridge, the derelict Domino Sugar Refinery remains one of the most recognized monuments of Brooklyn’s rapidly disappearing industrial past. Now, after a decade of false starts, new plans for a modern, mixed-use megacomplex may put an end to the decaying colossus that was once the largest refinery in the world, marking the final passage of a working-class Williamsburg.

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