As with the equally polluted (give or take) Gowanus Canal, it seems like only a matter of time before the banks of Newtown Creek give way to large-scale residential development, and to get things started architectural firms Avoid Obvious Architects and Studio C Architects have designed just such a development for a currently industrial East Williamsburg site, on spec. One of the architects told NY YIMBY, "we hope to find the right investors in China." The plan consists of three glassy towers connected by planted walkways. One of the towers would be condos (naturally), one would be a hotel, and the third would be "dedicated as artist's studio." (The entire thing? Apparently.) The renderings do raise some questions, though, such as: at what point did the barren industrial wasteland of East Williamsburg turn into a lush forest?
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The same way the architectural renderings for the Sky View Parc shithole in Flooshing shows it in the middle of a park!!!
Isn't that why so many buyers pulled out and sued the developers?
Caveat emptor!
As Wellington Chen once said about Flushing, "It was ripe for the taking". They see underutilized land as a free for all zone for "development". Conditions are so bad in the hinterlands of China that they would consider building luxury accommodations on a cesspool stream runoff. And that would be an improvemen over the lives most Chinese are living back in China.
They have already poisoned Beijing with a cloud of toxic smog...and that is their Capitol city. Imagine what they have in mind for the rest of the colonies they are creating around the world.
Those trees would make really hip / lo-carbon homeless shelters. I think we're on to something here!!!
You should smell the "Love River" in Kaohsiung, Taiwan - it's more of a canal than a river - and the smell is far from lovely.
Love River? Is that where the Taiwanese throw their used condoms after love making? On second thought they don't practice birth control. They are multiplying like Locusts. Or is that mainland Chinese that Hong Kong residents call Locosts who descend upon their city?
In a sane world, building high rises on toxic Newtown Creek would never even be a proposal.
Stop the over development and pollution of our environment.Just look at the mess foreign investors have made of Flushing, remember the RKO scandal?
Speaking of the RKO Keith's scandal...CB7 will be holding a public meeting this coming Monday at Union Plaza nursing home at 7:30. Come and enjoy the show. Chuck Apelian will be the emcee.
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