Reported by Greg Hanlon, St. Nicks Alliance
Unfortunately, no building owner is unaffected by the lure of maximizing their investment in the current housing market gripped by gentrification—even 211 Ainslie Street, the longtime home of the Swinging Sixties Senior Center and Small World Daycare, two long-running, popular centers for Williamsburg’s low and moderate-income population.

It is also where Community Board #1 meetings have been held for the last 30 years.

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“I’m in the produce business,” said Colin Miles of Save Domino, when he approached the “podium” to make commentary regarding Domino Sugar project at the latest public planning hearing in Williamsburg. He cleverly used two minutes to make several points challenging developer Two Trees’ massive project that, in his opinion, makes false claims and false promises for the community.

Read Bedford+Bowery reporter Ryan Porush’s story here.

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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.

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Just a little preview of what to expect with the arrival of Whole Foods on Bedford Ave in 2014.

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WG opens the telling of the story to all who may add clarity to the unfolding tragedy of the downing of the historic Domino Factory Sugar site.

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