domino sugar factory

No Comments

The Plot Thickens: A Visit to the Farm Sprouting Up On the Domino Site

The farm's first flower (Photo: Nicole Disser)

The farm’s first flower (Photo: Nicole Disser)

It was more than a little depressing to see the first North Brooklyn Farms get clobbered by bulldozers last fall, even if everybody knew it was coming. But as of this weekend, the farm is back and better than ever with Sunday night dinner parties, a fireworks viewing, and a host of other community events extending through the tolerable months. But best of all is that North Brooklyn Farms, now the Farm on Kent, will be an accessible plot of nature for the neighborhood’s residents.

More →

No Comments

DOB Will Get a Wake-Up Call Regarding Weekend Construction at Domino Site

(Photo: Daniel Maurer)

(Photo: Daniel Maurer)

Members of Brooklyn’s Community Board 1 are expressing “outrage” that the Department of Buildings is allowing the developer of the Domino Sugar site to build on weekends, potentially disrupting Williamsburgers from sleeping in on Saturdays.
More →

No Comments

7 Local and Not-So-Local Ones to Catch at the Brooklyn Film Festival

Still from Tonitas, courtesy of Brooklyn Film Festival.

Still from Tonitas, courtesy of Brooklyn Film Festival.

“Brooklyn is exploding right now,” says Nathan Kensinger, and he should know. For months, the documentary filmmaker and photographer has been working hard on the lineup for the 17th annual Brooklyn Film Festival, which kicks off this Friday.
More →

No Comments

15 Respectable Reasons to Stay Local This Memorial Day Weekend

Trust us, the roads don't look anything like this right now.

Trust us, the roads don’t look anything like this right now. (Photo: Daniel Maurer)

Staying in town this Memorial Day weekend? Count yourself lucky. Being stuck in the city is way better than being stuck in traffic, or — worse yet — in a Hamptons club, waiting for your friend to stop talking to that bro in the pink shirt so she can give you a ride back to the timeshare. Here’s over a dozen things you can do this weekend, starting with the next best thing to a cat cafe. Have a groovy weekend — we’ll be back here Tuesday.
More →

No Comments

‘It’s Out of This World’: 18 Reactions to Kara Walker’s Domino Installation

(Photo: Kirsten O'Regan)

For 22 years, Kara Walker’s work has probed the ugly issues of race, colonialism and power. But she’s never done something quite like A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby: a monumental, sugar-coated sculpture of a naked African-American woman, crouching forward sphinx-like in a former Domino Sugar warehouse, her labia peeking out between her toes.
More →

No Comments

Watch This Trippy Reimagination of the Domino Site Before You See Kara Walker’s

Tomorrow, Kara Walker’s monumental installation in the Domino Sugar Factory, “A Subtlety” (or “The Marvelous Sugar Baby”) will be unveiled to the general public at the Domino Sugar Factory (sorry, you missed Creative Time’s preview dinner with folks like Chuck Close and Jenna Lyons of J. Crew, who played Hannah’s boss at GQ in Girls).
More →

No Comments

Just How Sweet Is the Domino Deal?

Yesterday we reported that the city had struck a deal with the developer of the Domino Sugar factory site that would bring some 700 units of affordable housing to the Williamsburg waterfront. Here now is our handy-dandy chart showing differences between the previous developer’s plan, the current developer’s Bloomberg-era plan, and the plan that will be put to the City Planning Commission’s vote this week.
More →