The proposed Regeneration of Domino Sugar Factory in Williamsburg Brooklyn and its inspiration: Tate Modern museum in London, UK. Illustration by Friends of Domino, 2013
By Ida Susser
The Domino Sugar Factory, a landmark site, is about to be demolished for more upscale residential/office space development—à la Bloomberg—and in several recent articles in the New York Times this has been taken as fait accompli. Yet there is still a chance to stop it. New Yorkers have just elected a new mayor, with a major agenda for affordable housing and a call for attention to the lives of middle and working class people. The Domino site, recently acquired by a private developer, Two Trees, after much controversy and a failed effort by the prior owner, still has to make it through a number of approvals.
