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The 28-story residential tower, located at 1501 Voorhies Avenue, rises above the Sheepshead Bay subway platform. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)The topography of Sheepshead Bay — like almost every other New York neighborhood — is rapidly changing. What was once a sleepy fishing village characterized by low-slung bungalows [/blast-from-the-past-rockaway-bungalows/] and seaside
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Senator Ted Cruz shaking hands outside the Chabad Neshama Center in Brighton Beach. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)In Case You Missed It (ICYMI): [/tag/in-case-you-missed-it/] Here are some of the big stories you may have missed this week. You can keep up with what’s going on in the
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There’s already a lot we know about incomes in our corner of Brooklyn: folks in Manhattan Beach tend to do pretty well, Sheepshead Bay is solidly middle-class, and Gerritsen is somewhere between the two. However, a new interactive map published on CartoDB [https://cartodb.com/], the online mapping tool,
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The foundation is nearly complete at 1501 Voorhies Avenue. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)Neighbors have long been keeping an eye on the progress of the 333-foot-tall residential building [/bonkers-30-story-condo-tower-slated-voorhies-avenue-next-subway-station/] beside the Sheepshead Bay subway station. For years, we have been reporting on new renderings [/first-tenants-could-be-moving-into-voorhies-avenue-tower-by-next-year/], Department of Buildings filings
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The United Methodist Church of Sheepshead Bay. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)In Case You Missed It (ICYMI): [/tag/in-case-you-missed-it/] Here are some of the big stories you may have missed this week. You can keep up with what’s going on in the neighborhood all week long. Just follow
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Rendering of the tower at 1501 Voorhies Avenue. (Source: CityRealty [https://www.cityrealty.com/nyc/sheepshead-bay/1501-voorhies-avenue/74373?query=1501] )The first tenants could be moving into the 28-story residential tower being constructed beside the Sheepshead Bay subway station as early as the spring of 2017 — and all of the
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The construction site at 1501 Voorhies Avenue. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)Emergency responders closed down a section of Voorhies Avenue for an hour Tuesday morning after a pile driver collapsed at the construction site for the proposed 28-story tower beside the Sheepshead Bay subway station. The FDNY says first
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If you see activity this week over at 1501 Voorhies Avenue it’s because contractors will begin hammering in test pilings for theplanned 30-story residential tower adjacent to the Sheepshead Bay subway station [/voorhies-tower-gated-entrance-sheepshead-bay-rd-one-bedrooms-start-700k-absolutely-affordable-housing/] . With paperwork still under review at the Department of Buildings, the developer tells Sheepshead Bites that
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Developers behind the 30-story residential building slated for 1501 Voorhies Avenue [/voorhies-tower-gated-entrance-sheepshead-bay-rd-one-bedrooms-start-700k-absolutely-affordable-housing/] will have to submit more documentation before they can break ground on the project after the city disapproved their draft plans. The disapproval is more of a bureaucratic hurdle typical of large-scale projects than it is a barrier
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THE COMMUTE [/tag/the-commute/]: Sheepshead Bay has been the victim of over-development. Development itself is not a bad thing. In fact, it is good for the economy. However, when development occurs, the infrastructure must also be improved. Block after block, the neighborhood has seen one-family homes replaced by six-family condos.
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The approximately footprint of the combined properties now owned by Muss Development. (Source: Google Maps)Muss Development, the developer that built and manages Brighton Beach’s Oceana Condominium complex, has snapped up a sprawling 87,500-square-foot development site on Sheepshead Bay Road that was previously slated to become a mall