Sick As a Dog Aimed at the Creative Crowd
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INSIDE: GET THE RIGHT RESULTS WITH OUR CLASSIFIEDS SECTION Yo u r Neighborhood — Yo u r News® BrooklynPaper.com • (718) 260–2500 • Brooklyn, NY • ©2015 Serving Brownstone Brooklyn, Williamsburg & Greenpoint AWP/14 pages • Vol. 38, No. 42 • October 16–22, 2015 • FREE TECH, TECH, BOOM! TO PETWARNING OWNERS! Developers banking on Bushwick as next big startup hub By Allegra Hobbs The Brooklyn Paper The new Silicon Alley will really live up to its name. Bushwick is still in its first trimes- ter of gentrification but developers are already snapping up massive neighbor- hood warehouses to convert into trendy offices for what they hope will become New York’s next big startup scene. “We think it’s the place to go,” said Jim Stein, vice president of developer Lincoln Property Co., which recently bought a six-story former coffee-roast- ing warehouse on Jefferson Street at Cy- press Avenue for $46 million, which it plans on turning into an office complex dubbed the Jefferson. The pitch to potential tenants is that hordes of creative types — known in real-estate jargon as “tech, advertising, media, and information” workers — are already living in the neighborhood, and they can set up shop at cheaper rates than Manhattan or Dumbo, right in the middle of the employment marketplace. Developers are turning a former Jefferson Street coffee-roasting warehouse into an opulent office build- “The Jefferson is a once in a gen- ing for tech types who prefer green cabs over Ubers. eration opportunity for TAMI tenants searching for an exceptional Brook- lyn branding opportunity,” Stein said nowned street art .” you don’t have enough space [to work],” facturing, which took over a chunk of in a promotional release. “Managers Between hipsters moving further and said Christopher Havens, a commercial the warehouse at Stagg Street and Mor- will have a competitive advantage in further along the L line and a dearth of broker for aptsandlofts.com. gan Avenue in July. Voodoo shares the attracting sought-after employees by office space throughout the borough, A handful of techies have already same building as video-streaming service offering the convenience of working Bushwick is indeed primed to explode set up shop in or near the nabe, and a Livestream , which held an event called near their homes versus commuting to as a commercial district, according to start-up scene is already forming, ac- Hack Bushwick there last year . Photo by Jason Speakman Manhattan.” the dean of Downtown commercial real cording to one newcomer. And it is only a matter of time before Lou Moreno’s pooch Schatzi became sick one day after taking a The building’s brochures claim estate agents. “There really is a community here the Voodoo clan fulfill the live-work- stroll through the Nethermead in Prospect Park — and Moreno Bushwick is “Brooklyn’s new ener- “You have a connection to Manhat- we didn’t know about until we moved play trifecta envisioned by developers says drug-laced human feces may be to blame. getic cultural core” and boast of the tan, and a tremendous amount of peo- here,” said Max Friefeld, co-founder of — Friefeld said his Manhattan-dwell- area’s “live music venues and world re- ple who want to live in that area, and 3D-printing company Voodoo Manu- ing employees are already making plans to move near the office. The Jefferson joins several other mas- sive warehouse overhauls in the area Sick as a dog aimed at the creative crowd. Boho Bushwick, we hardly knew ye Developer Savanna purchased the for- mer Schlitz bottling plant at Evergreen By Allegra Hobbs restaurant, and multiple bars, accord- Avenue and George Street just across Pups eating toxic poop in P’Park? The Brooklyn Paper ing to plans it filed with the city. It also the border in industrial Williamsburg It seems like just yesterday that Bush- Changing intends to transform another ware- for $34 million in January, and is cur- By Colin Mixson vets are identifying the wick became the new refuge for bohe- house on Scott Avenue into high-end rently renovating it into a five-story of- The Brooklyn Paper Meadows of agent as a narcotic,” said mian artists and their weird scrap metal Brooklyn nightlife spot housing a winery, beer fice building dubbed 95 Evergreen Av- This s--- is dope. Garry Osgood, the pres- sculptures, yet now real-estate prognos- garden, event hall, restaurant, and of- enue that will feature a rooftop deck Several Brooklyn dogs ident of park dog-advo- ticators say the ’hood is ripe for tech also filed plans for a 112-key lodging fice space — a project it is partially and a light fixture made out of 10,000 have fallen seriously sick cacy organization Fido, entrepreneurs and their startups . on White Street at McKibbon Street, financing via crowd-funding. Schlitz bottles, according to real estate with narcotics poisoning in a post on the group’s What’s next? Gaze into this crystal a 140-key hotel on Stewart Avenue at • Upcoming Bushwick eateries in- blog New York Yimby . after visiting Prospect Facebook page warning ball of Department of Buildings filings Flushing Avenue, and a 144-key ho- clude a Le Garage — a fancy French And a trio of real estate companies Park in recent weeks other mutt owners about to see more of the nabe’s future: tel on Seigel Street between Bushwick bistro inside a graffitied old garage purchased a sprawling three-acre indus- — possibly after eating SHAME the rash of poisonings. • Four hotels are planned for the Avenue and White Street. on Central Avenue — a second outlet trial site on Johnson Avenue between drug-tainted excrement The doped-up dog epi- neighborhood. Bklyn House , an eight- • Developer Bushwack Capital plans of Prospect Heights high-end ramen Bogart Street and Bushwick Place for left behind by local druggies, say lo- demic began when East Flatbush res- story, 116-room hotel boasting “local to gussy up a decrepit warehouse on joint Chuko, and a sprawling cafe and $26.75 million in May, which they plan cal dog lovers. ident Lou Moreno took his German art inspired by the neighborhood,” will Johnson Avenue between Gardner and roastery from San Fransiscan tech- on turning into a “creative community” “That narcotics users are ‘taking shorthaired pointer, Schatzi, to the park open soon on Beaver Street at Fayette Scott streets and turn it into a night- industry-favorite coffee emporium that will also include restaurants, re- dumps in the park’ that are subsequently on the morning of Sept. 17 for their Street. And separate developers have club with two performance spaces, a Blue Bottle. tail, and a dedicated space for “artisa- munched on by dogs is a pretty easy daily walk through the Nethermead — nal food production.” conclusion to reach, especially since See DOGS on page 11 Stringer busts out some zingers Comptroller criticizes mayor, but supports his Coney Island land-grab By Max Jaeger their buildings go to pot while collect- The Brooklyn Paper ing $100 or more per night that the city The city’s top financial watchdog shells out to house the homeless, ac- supports Mayor DeBlasio’s plan to seize cording to a Department of Investiga- private land in Coney Island from hold- tion report that spurred Stringer to look out landlords in order to expand the at homeless services’ books. amusement district — but on other is- The mayor and the Department of sues, he and Mayor Tall just don’t see Homeless Services have failed to pro- eye to eye, Comptroller Scott Stringer tect the city’s most vulnerable, Stringer recently told The Brooklyn Paper. said. The plan announced last month to “I’m shocked that as we started to force the sale of three empty seaside lots look at these contracts, the promises and to the city through eminent domain so it commitments made are not being kept,” can sell some of it to amusement oper- he said. “I know it angers City Hall, I ators would require the comptroller ap- know it frustrates the Department of proval, and though the heavy-handed tac- Homeless Services, but if I wasn’t do- tic is not to be taken lightly, in this case, ing that, then I wouldn’t be doing the it’s the right move, Stringer said. job I was elected to do.” “While eminent domain is one of the most severe actions that can be taken by Bonds … Park Bonds a government, and must be used only Community News Group / Max Jaeger Pols and activists should know when all other options are off the table, Comptroller Scott Stringer stopped by The Brooklyn Paper’s Down- whether tax-exempt bonds could pay I support the administration’s effort to town Brooklyn offices to talk about Brooklyn Bridge Park, homeless- for maintaining Brooklyn Bridge Park use it to take this vacant, blighted prop- ness, and a city plan to exercise eminent domain in Coney Island. — rather than two controversial pro- erty,” he said. posed towers — well before the com- The comptroller talked about the pro- pany that runs the park breaks ground posed land-grab and a slew of other MTA to give us a road map for their in- But he did criticize Hizzoner’s han- on the buildings, Stringer said. issues at a recent sit-down with this vestment in infrastructure projects for dling of public housing and homeless- The comptroller recently told the paper. transportation,” Stringer said. “But the ness. Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation — Photo by Stefano Giovannini But siding with DeBlasio’s plan for city can’t play checkers — the city has the private group tasked with building Coney Island was a rare instance where to play chess.