Meet Williamsburg's Big Dutch Hole

Remember Williamsburg's Old Dutch Mustard Building? We can hardly pass by Metropolitan Avenue and Wythe Avenue in Williamsburg without seeing it and grumbling about its demolition. Well, Old Dutch will be morphing into 80 Met, which is your standard off-the-shelf Williamsburg luxe condo building. It's not an especially offensive structure--it's simply pedestrian and uninspired--unless you know the local history that was destroyed to make room for it. In which case, it is one of the most offensive structures currently under construction in all of North Brooklyn. Regardless, our point was not to rail further about historical and cultural vandalism committed by developer Steiner Equities. It's simply to show you the Big Dutch Hole growing where Old Dutch used be. We still miss you, big guy.