November 15–21, 2019 Brooklyn Paper • www.BrooklynPaper.com • (718) 260-2500 AWP 13
Domino open for biz
First offi ce tower opens at giant Williamsburg site
By Kevin Duggan
Brooklyn Paper
A Dumbo-based developer
opened a massive new office
tower — officially called
“Ten Grand” — on the former
Domino Sugar site at the Williamsburg
waterfront Thursday,
according to the company’s
head.
“Ten Grand brings a singular
elevated office experience
to Brooklyn, adding to the borough’s
growing global destination
for creative businesses,”
said Jed Walentas, the principal
of developer Two Trees.
The building will feature
office space with wraparound
views of the Brooklyn waterfront
and the distant Isle of
Manhattan.
The 24-floor new office
tower is one leg of the larger
45-story mixed-use residential,
office, and retail building,
called “One South First”
— which opened in September
at the northern edge of
the former sugar manufacturing
site.
Manhattan-based designers
with the firm Cookfox Architects
designed the building’s
white exterior to “invoke the
structure of sugar crystals” and
offer a wraparound view of the
Brooklyn waterfront and the
distant skyline of Manhattan,
Daniel Levin
NYPD: Gang violence on rise
By Todd Maisel
for Brooklyn Paper
New York City has already
suffered 267 murders this year
— and is on track to top 300
before the year is out.
Police officials, led by outgoing
Commissioner James
O’Neill, and Mayor Bill de
Blasio presented the numbers
during the latest Compstat report
in Brooklyn on Wednesday.
Chief of Detectives Dermot
Shea — who will take over
for O’Neill at the end of the
month — found himself in
the hot seat because his office
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is investigating several major
homicides, including the
fatal shooting of 14-year-old
Aamir Griffin on a basketball
court in October.
Shea pointed out that of the
29 murders this past month,
eight were part of two separate
incidents, including four
found dead at a Utica Avenue
gambling hall in Crown
Heights on Oct. 12 and the
other four in gang related violence
in the Bronx. He attributed
the increase in homicides
to rising gang and
narcotics violence.
Shootings were also up 4.7
percent, from 597 during the
same period in 2018 to 625
shootings this year. Of those
shootings, there was a 13.1
percent spike in crime in NYCHA
housing. Most notable
was the shooting at the Old
Timers Day event in Brownsville
in which 12 people were
shot and one was killed.
“It’s a small percentage of
the population that is responsible
for these crimes,” Shea
said. “The uptick in shootings
is related to narcotics and gang
related violence and we are
addressing it.”
Several shootings, including
one in which a teen
girl was shot in the shoulder,
“seem to all be related
to gang disputes and it is the
same individuals involved,”
according to Shea
He indicated that arrests for
homicides were also up and
they were making progress in
their investigations, though
the Griffin murder is said to
be difficult as the video evidence
is “murky at best.”
“There are only a few people
who are committing most
of these shootings an they are
the most violent,” Shea conceded.
Developer Two Trees opened a massive new office
tower on the Williamsburg waterfront.
according to the developer.
In addition to the workspace,
the building hosts a string of
amenities — such as a 45-seat
theater, lounges and conference
rooms, rooftop cabanas, gyms,
and a bike lobby to store twowheelers.
The ground floor of the development
complex will also
feature a number of wellknown
retailers — including
Bushwick pizzeria Roberta’s,
Other Half Brewing,
Oddfellows Ice Cream, and
Two Hands Café.
The new space is the most
recent in an impressive list of
developments that Two Trees
has erected in recent years —
including their six-acre privately
funded public green space
Domino Park that opened in
June 2018, and their doughnut
shaped 16-story residential
building 325 Kent that opened
its doors in 2017.
Two Trees is also working
to repurpose the 19th-century
sugar refinery building into an
office campus, while maintaining
its facade.
The company plans to expand
its portfolio further north
along the East River by possibly
seeking a rezoning to build
a waterfront park and residential
development on three lots
owned by Con Edison on River
Street between Grand and N.
Third streets, according to a
Brownstoner report.
That site would be separated
from the Domino Park
properties only by the small
1.7-acre city-owned Grand
Ferry Park.
The city also tapped Two
Trees — a big donor to Mayor
Bill de Blasio — to co-develop
below-market-rate apartments
on the parking lot of Boerum
Hill’s Wyckoff Gardens in 2018,
after scooping up two next-door
lots along the Gowanus Canal
ahead of that neighborhood’s
upcoming rezoning.
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