A long-stalled development site next to the landmarked Williamsburgh Savings Bank tower is moving again — actual work has started, not just a new filing.

Brownstoner reports construction has resumed at 159 Broadway, on a parcel that's sat dormant next to the neighborhood's best-known landmark for years while ownership and plans shifted. The report describes site activity underway now, which is a different claim than a permit sitting in a queue — this is the rare stalled Brooklyn site where the shovels are the news, not the paperwork.

For contractors, a site with a construction history like this one carries real diligence value: previous stalls usually mean previous GCs, previous subs, and previous unresolved site conditions (foundations, shoring, adjacent-property protection near a landmark) that the next contractor inherits. Work restarting next to a designated landmark also usually means Landmarks Preservation Commission sign-off is already baked into the permit, which narrows the design risk but adds inspection scrutiny during construction.

Neither the developer, the GC, nor a unit count or square footage figure appears in the source — Brownstoner's report is a site-visit observation, not a filing summary, so we're not printing numbers the story doesn't give. What is worth tracking is the address itself: 159 Broadway, Williamsburg, sitting directly beside a protected landmark, is now an active job after sitting still. Anyone with Williamsburg-adjacent trade relationships should watch DOB's permit history for that block for the GC of record and the scope of work now filed.