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Construction sites, September 2007 edition


The Badge Building. Looking nice and finished. Big windows. Nice design.


Hunters Point Condos on Jackson near Pulaski. Going up and up.


Jackson Ave project at 47th. Next to the increasingly ugly rental building that is the new home of M&T Bank and across from Chase.


Ten63 project. Named after the cafe, but looking like one big empty lot. Anything happening here?


Casa Viscaya, weirdly named and lower-rise. Have a closer look and see their very odd plans for an outdoor space pinched behind the building and next to the neighboring lots.


The Foundry. Interesting name since it rips off the supercool "The Foundry LIC" event space that used to be an iron foundry. But the design of this thing screams....mid-level "luxury" sheathed in the same boring look of 1000 condos in Queens and Brooklyn.


The other Hunters Point Condos site. Also going up fast. Big concrete floor plates. They appear to be marketing these already.


The homeless trio that live in and pee on their crappy little van where the HPC building is going up -- under those billboars at 50th and Vernon.


The Power House. That goldy-bronzey tower keeps rising. And they appear to be tearing down about half of the old original factory.

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