The Domino Sugar Factory in Williamsburg is right by my apartment and I love seeing it every day so I was very relieved to hear that it has been granted landmark status. Apparently the planned residential development will still go ahead but they will not be allowed to alter the existing exterior which pleases me no end. There are some terrifyingly ugly glass buildings going up in Williamsburg at the moment, with soulless and empty slogans to accompany them. I’ve been thinking a lot about development and community recently, I carry Jane Jacob’s magnificent The Death and Life of Great American Cities around with me, and spend a lot of time taking photographs of old buildings being demolished or new buildings going up. True/False’s David Wilson recently told me that he loved a short film called Grand Luncheonette by Peter Sillen and I just noticed that you can watch it online on Sillen’s website. It’s a beautiful film about what happened to Times Square and it makes a great double bill with Stefan Nadelman’s Terminal Bar, another poignant tribute to a lost era and a vanished neighborhood.

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