Not surprised to read this...

Williamsburg is ground zero in the growing scourge of stalled construction that has left the neighborhood littered with 18 vacant lots and rusting steel building frames -- more than in all of The Bronx, The Post has learned.

 

Block after block in the trendy Brooklyn community and a few adjacent streets in Greenpoint have been declared stalled construction sites by the city.

 

A team of building inspectors found 143 stalled sites around the city. But the cluster of lots in Williamsburg, where development was white-hot just two years ago, is the biggest.

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http://www.nypost.com/seven/07062009/news/regionalnews/lots_of_woe_in_wburg_177780.htm