Caine Blog

Went home for a few days, and during that time had a chance to see some wicked condo-fication, of the same sort that’s going  on here in Brooklyn.  Or was going on, I should say.  The New York Times Magazine real estate supplement just came out, and actually published a piece about the DC market, [...]

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That’s the question I have every time I walk down Metropolitan Avenue, in Williamsburg. Why? Because the land under the BQE is like an untapped oil field, or if that’s a little too much for you, like a wind turbine that’s yet to be raised: pure potential.
Dead zones around expressways aren’t unprecedented in New York: [...]

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[Pictures coming soon, possibly by Sunday.  Whenever I can head down to Lee Avenue and discreetly snap some photos.
The first thing I noticed last Sunday as I walked around Lee Avenue?  The children’s footwear.  Crocs of all colors, green and teal and black and white, strapped to the feet of young pais-bearing boys and ankle-dressed [...]

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I went to a Community Board 1 Executive Committee tonight to check up on little old Studio B, the Greenpoint club that all the neighbors hate.  In looking up one of the members - Joseph Weber, a Hasidic rabbi who is also the first vice chair of CB1 - I came across “Welfare Neighborhood,” a [...]

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