110 Livingston News & Blog

Details from the entryway to the building.

Details of the entryway door and the restored lobby ceiling. Many thanks to our discussion board user kaz for this great shot and the lobby pics below. You can see her full set here.

Door to the ‘great hall.’

The elevator banks.

• On March 31: Spring is Coming, Really: Prospect Park “Opening Day” (Gowanus Lounge)
• Best Fried Clams in Brooklyn? (Chowhound via Brooklyn Record)
• Edward Scissorhands at BAM (BAM.org)
• Boymelgreen to Take a Breather (Brownstoner)
• Brooklyn Botanic Garden: lunch at the Terrace Café and take a free guided tour (BBG.org)
• AvalonBay Communities to build 42 story residential on Flatbush and Gold (Belltel Lofts Blog)

New York Magazine has anointed the Y at Atlantic and Court the best gym in Brooklyn — right around the corner from 110. The Y, which was built as part of Two Trees’ Court House project, surpassed even the new Brooklyn Heights Equinox. The blurb raves:

this nearly brand-new family-friendly facility is more than a place to do cardio and weights. There are community-centric programs for teens and toddlers, infant swim classes in the six-lane pool, and pickup basketball games in the gigantic gym. The fitness center has cardio and strength-training machines plus 96 adult classes a week, from spinning to belly dancing.

Thanks Two Trees! Also check out The Little Gym next door, for kids and parents, with a “parents’ survival night” providing child care on a weekend.

• Best Brooklyn Gym (NY Mag)
• Little Gymnasts Coming to Atlantic! (53Boerum)
• Dodge YMCA (Official Site)

Well, turns out we’re not alone in looking for answers on delays in traffic calming and street improvements — the Boerum Hill Association (BHA) is pointing its finger at DOT for delaying improvements to Third Avenue after four years of promises. BHA is blaming DOT for a very sad incident — a young boy and his aunt were struck by a Hummer making a turn on Third, and the boy died of his injuries.

According to BHA, the planned traffic calming measures, had they been in place, may have saved his life. Some insight into the reasons for delay:

this type of improvement is considered a capital improvement, which is on a different and obviously slower track for implementation.

BHA also notes that DOT is planning construction of more than 100 curb extensions (or “neck-downs” in traffic-speak) over coming months and years in Downtown Brooklyn. For more information on the overall downtown plans see the Transportation Alternatives site below.

• Community to DOT: Slow it down a bit (Park Slope Courier)
• Downtown Brooklyn Traffic Calming Project (Transportation Alternatives)
• Anatomy of a Neck-Down (popup of proposed curb extension at Adams and Tillary, from Transportation Alternatives)
• The Park Avenue of Brooklyn? Not quite yet.
• Discuss in the 110 forums.

Some of our favorite real estate and neighborhood sites have given 110Livingston.net and a couple of our features some attention — thanks to each of them:

• Independence Bank Development Back on Track (Brownstoner)
• New Brooklyn Neighborhood Blogs (Curbed)
• Another New Brooklyn Blog: 110 Livingston (Gowanus Lounge)
• Blogtalk (New York Times, The Empire Zone)
  

The new profile of the building, late in the day.