The Real Deal New York

From the January issue: The Edge, one of the most ambitious the city has ever seen, is taking shape without a hitch, with barely a grumble coming from the community it will transform. “It’s not like there was a park there that they wanted to stay a park,” said Jeff Levine, whose Douglaston Development is building by far the largest new development in the rezoned 175-block area along the Williamsburg/Greenpoint waterfront. “It was a garbage-handling facility,” Levine said, which many viewed as hardly the best use of space for one of the fastest-growing residential communities in New York City. The first phase of Douglaston’s 7.5-acre mixed-use North Williamsburg development will begin to emerge from the ground before spring, about the time its 575 condominium residences will go on sale pre-construction.