New Blog on the Block: City Seen

We've often wondered why more Williamsburg and Greenpoint-based bloggers don't chronicle the development and neighborhood scene around them, so we take some pleasure in noting a new blog called City Seen. In its first outings the blog covers the goings on at at 271 and 279 Driggs Avenue and at 55 Eckford Street in Greenpoint. Its third post handles the curious case of The Lotus at Bayard and Union streets, which has been finished, but vacant for some time. On Sunday we noticed several people coming out The Lotus's front door and assumed they were possible buyers with an agent. Then, they stopped to check a mailbox out front, and we thought that might actually be people that live in the building or who are, at least, having mail sent to the address.

City Seen offers that The Lotus--which isn't a bad building as new Williamsburg construction goes--has no certificate of occupancy, which is curious indeed. (Update/Correction: A commenter notes, correctly that a Certificate of Occupancy does indeed exist for The Lotus. It was, in fact, issued on Oct. 18. There is a long back-and-forth about this in the comment section at City Seen about this, and buyers note that they are in the process of moving in. The Lotus should have residents shortly.)

We have written about a nearby development site with some nasty issues. We, in fact, updated the situation in an item yesterday.

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