{"id":5086,"date":"2009-07-06T08:21:16","date_gmt":"2009-07-06T13:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=5086"},"modified":"2009-07-06T08:21:16","modified_gmt":"2009-07-06T13:21:16","slug":"ironically_degentrifying_williamsburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/07\/ironically_degentrifying_williamsburg.html","title":{"rendered":"Ironically Degentrifying Williamsburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alanis Morissette should check out this article because, unless I&#8217;m mistaken, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/07062009\/news\/regionalnews\/lots_of_woe_in_wburg_177780.htm\">it&#8217;s basically the textbook definition of &#8220;irony&#8221;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Williamsburg is ground zero in the growing scourge of stalled construction that has left the neighborhood littered with 18 vacant lots and rusting steel building frames &#8212; more than in all of The Bronx, The Post has learned. <\/p>\n<p>Block after block in the trendy Brooklyn community and a few adjacent streets in Greenpoint have been declared stalled construction sites by the city. <\/p>\n<p>A team of building inspectors found 143 stalled sites around the city. But the cluster of lots in Williamsburg, where development was white-hot just two years ago, is the biggest. <\/p>\n<p>By contrast, The Bronx and Queens each had just 14 stalled construction sites, and Staten Island had 13, city records show. <\/p>\n<p>. . . <\/p>\n<p>Philip DePaolo, who moved from The Bronx to Williamsburg in 1979, said the neighborhood looks like the arson-scarred streets he left behind. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It looks like I never left,&#8221; said DePaolo, comparing his old neighborhood to Williamsburg today. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The problem we&#8217;re having now is that we&#8217;re starting to get squatters in these buildings and lots,&#8221; said DePaolo. &#8220;Blight draws crime, and if you have blocks and blocks of vacant lots with no people, that creates a problem.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>DePaolo pointed to broken construction fencing surrounding some of the sites and piles of blankets and cardboard shacks left behind by homeless squatters who spend nights there. <\/p>\n<p>Officials say they&#8217;re working on the problem as a growing number of developers struggle with financing in a slumping housing market.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alanis Morissette should check out this article because, unless I&#8217;m mistaken, it&#8217;s basically the textbook definition of &#8220;irony&#8221;: Williamsburg is ground zero in the growing scourge of stalled construction that has left the neighborhood littered with 18 vacant lots and rusting steel building frames &#8212; more than in all of The Bronx, The Post has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn","category-real_estate","category-tragicomic_ironic_obnoxious_or_absurd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5086"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5088,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5086\/revisions\/5088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}