New Toll Road at Northside Piers

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Beautiful. Absolutely gorgeous. And a nice black gentleman keeping watch! Where do I sign?

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The building on the left, after renovation - that should cool pretty cool.

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More waterfront access on the way... YAY!!!

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Access to the waterfront, it's coming. Total redevelopment of the waterfront, that too, is coming. Plus many more condos. It is inevitable. The neighborhood is changing, and by 2012 it is going to be a completely different place. Now, you may think I write the obvious. Everybody knows that the gentrification has been coming along. But the main thing is, this neighborhood change was going to happen long before any so called "hipsters" were part of the equation. Does anyone ever remember that little thing called NYC2012? hello? the deputy mayor of NY was plugging for this for YEARS. And so when his little plan didn't work out, ie ny not getting the Olympics, it didn't matter, in the whole realm of gentrifying nyc. Williamsburg was slated to become what it is and what it is destined for because of Dan Doctoroff. He saw a wasted waterfront and he had plans to turn it into something others could use and appreciate. I really can't stand the fact that "artists", feel that their move into the neighborhood fueled the gentrification of williamsburg. The waterfront development, the williamsburg development in general is about the fact that a businessman and entrepreneur saw the means for an economically depressed portion of the city to expand for more people to appreciate and for ny to grow economically. Olympics or no Olympics, hipsters or no hipsters, it was going to happen. This man had foresight and was planning to redevelop this waterfront no matter what.

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Access to the waterfront, it's coming. Total redevelopment of the waterfront, that too, is coming. Plus many more condos. It is inevitable. The neighborhood is changing, and by 2012 it is going to be a completely different place. Now, you may think I write the obvious. Everybody knows that the gentrification has been coming along. But the main thing is, this neighborhood change was going to happen long before any so called "hipsters" were part of the equation. Does anyone ever remember that little thing called NYC2012? hello? the deputy mayor of NY was plugging for this for YEARS. And so when his little plan didn't work out, ie ny not getting the Olympics, it didn't matter, in the whole realm of gentrifying nyc. Williamsburg was slated to become what it is and what it is destined for because of Dan Doctoroff. He saw a wasted waterfront and he had plans to turn it into something others could use and appreciate. I really can't stand the fact that "artists", feel that their move into the neighborhood fueled the gentrification of williamsburg. The waterfront development, the williamsburg development in general is about the fact that a businessman and entrepreneur saw the means for an economically depressed portion of the city to expand for more people to appreciate and for ny to grow economically. Olympics or no Olympics, hipsters or no hipsters, it was going to happen. This man had foresight and was planning to redevelop this waterfront no matter what.

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Access to the waterfront, it's coming. Total redevelopment of the waterfront, that too, is coming. Plus many more condos. It is inevitable. The neighborhood is changing, and by 2012 it is going to be a completely different place. Now, you may think I write the obvious. Everybody knows that the gentrification has been coming along. But the main thing is, this neighborhood change was going to happen long before any so called "hipsters" were part of the equation. Does anyone ever remember that little thing called NYC2012? hello? the deputy mayor of NY was plugging for this for YEARS. And so when his little plan didn't work out, ie ny not getting the Olympics, it didn't matter, in the whole realm of gentrifying nyc. Williamsburg was slated to become what it is and what it is destined for because of Dan Doctoroff. He saw a wasted waterfront and he had plans to turn it into something others could use and appreciate. I really can't stand the fact that "artists", feel that their move into the neighborhood fueled the gentrification of williamsburg. The waterfront development, the williamsburg development in general is about the fact that a businessman and entrepreneur saw the means for an economically depressed portion of the city to expand for more people to appreciate and for ny to grow economically. Olympics or no Olympics, hipsters or no hipsters, it was going to happen. This man had foresight and was planning to redevelop this waterfront no matter what.

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Access to the waterfront, it's coming. Total redevelopment of the waterfront, that too, is coming. Plus many more condos. It is inevitable. The neighborhood is changing, and by 2012 it is going to be a completely different place. Now, you may think I write the obvious. Everybody knows that the gentrification has been coming along. But the main thing is, this neighborhood change was going to happen long before any so called "hipsters" were part of the equation. Does anyone ever remember that little thing called NYC2012? hello? the deputy mayor of NY was plugging for this for YEARS. And so when his little plan didn't work out, ie ny not getting the Olympics, it didn't matter, in the whole realm of gentrifying nyc. Williamsburg was slated to become what it is and what it is destined for because of Dan Doctoroff. He saw a wasted waterfront and he had plans to turn it into something others could use and appreciate. I really can't stand the fact that "artists", feel that their move into the neighborhood fueled the gentrification of williamsburg. The waterfront development, the williamsburg development in general is about the fact that a businessman and entrepreneur saw the means for an economically depressed portion of the city to expand for more people to appreciate and for ny to grow economically. Olympics or no Olympics, hipsters or no hipsters, it was going to happen. This man had foresight and was planning to redevelop this waterfront no matter what.

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Access to the waterfront, it's coming. Total redevelopment of the waterfront, that too, is coming. Plus many more condos. It is inevitable. The neighborhood is changing, and by 2012 it is going to be a completely different place. Now, you may think I write the obvious. Everybody knows that the gentrification has been coming along. But the main thing is, this neighborhood change was going to happen long before any so called "hipsters" were part of the equation. Does anyone ever remember that little thing called NYC2012? hello? the deputy mayor of NY was plugging for this for YEARS. And so when his little plan didn't work out, ie ny not getting the Olympics, it didn't matter, in the whole realm of gentrifying nyc. Williamsburg was slated to become what it is and what it is destined for because of Dan Doctoroff. He saw a wasted waterfront and he had plans to turn it into something others could use and appreciate. I really can't stand the fact that "artists", feel that their move into the neighborhood fueled the gentrification of williamsburg. The waterfront development, the williamsburg development in general is about the fact that a businessman and entrepreneur saw the means for an economically depressed portion of the city to expand for more people to appreciate and for ny to grow economically. Olympics or no Olympics, hipsters or no hipsters, it was going to happen. This man had foresight and was planning to redevelop this waterfront no matter what.

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I'm going to assume that was a submit error?

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well well well well well well said

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As someone who moved to Williamsburg in the mid-80s and was intimately involved in planning for the waterfront from the end of that decade on, I can personally testify that Dan Doctoroff gets credit for knowing only which way the wind was blowing.

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The WB waterfront isn't all that beautiful on its own -- if it was just Doctoroff's genius, maybe the Astoria waterfront would be developed instead, in a nicer and more convenient area.

You really don't think artists played a role? Have you ever actually set foot in Williamsburg? Walked down a street? Spoken to anyone? There's a reason we don't all live in Queens.