Real Estate
Photo via Shorecrest TowersThe revitalization of Brooklyn’s oceanside neighborhoods continues! Cammeby’s has unveiled stunning renovations to Shorecrest Towers [http://shorecresttowers.com/?utm_source=bklyner&utm_medium=post], a rental community of studio-to-three-bedroom apartments that has been an iconic part of South Brooklyn for decades. World-renowned design firm
Cypress Hills
The 3000-block of Fulton Street in Cypress Hills, where the burglary took place (Screenshot via Google Maps)CYPRESS HILLS – Police are looking for a thief who stole a pair of generators from a construction site on Fulton Street in Cypress Hills in a daylight burglary. On October 4, the 25-year
Bushwick
BUSHWICK – Drone footage released by the architecture firm ODA [http://www.oda-architecture.com/] shows construction progressing on two massive housing developments coming to Bushwick. Together, the developments at 10 Montieth Street and 123 Melrose street—site of the old Rheingold Brewery [http://www.brownstoner.com/history/rheingold-beer-brewery-brooklyn-bushwick-history/] —take up 1.
northern brooklyn
WILLIAMSBURG – Police are searching for two men in connection with a construction site burglary that took place earlier this month. Two men jumped the fence into a construction site at 642 Bedford Ave around 3:00am on August 15, according to police. Once inside, the two suspects stole roughly $6,
Central Brooklyn
Community activist Mamnun Haq speaking at the safety improvements groundbreaking on Church and McDonald Avenues, July 11 2017. (Photo by Carly Miller/BKLYNER) Yesterday, city officials and civic leaders announced the start of a two-month safety improvement project on Church Avenue at one of Kensington’s busiest and most dangerous
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Assemblymember Steven Cymbrowitz at East 16th Street and Gravesend Neck Road. (Photo via Cymbrowitz’s office)After almost a decade, a ‘forgotten’ street corner in Sheepshead Bay is expected to open to pedestrians again next month, said Assembly Member Steven Cymbrowitz. The city fenced off the corner of Gravesend Neck
fort greene
86 Fleet Place (Image via Red Apple Group [http://www.catsimatidis.com/red-apple-real-estate/#1455640280595-56277235-8879] )The Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership has put together a handy list detailing all the new development [http://myrtleavenue.org/your-full-round-up-of-new-construction/] happening along and around Myrtle Avenue, spanning Fort Greene and Clinton Hill. According to the list,
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1501 Voorhies Avenue, 2017. (Photo by Carly Miller/BKLYNER)A stop-work order has been slapped on the looming — and controversial — 28-story luxury condo tower slated for Sheepshead Bay, after officials found safety violations at the site. Construction for the AvalonBay at 1501 Voorhies Avenue has been halted after inspectors found
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Department of Building plans for 470 Dean Street (Via YIMBY [http://www.yimbynews.com/2016/12/foundation-work-underway-on-eight-story-63-unit-mixed-use-project-at-470-dean-street-prospect-heights.html] )There’s no slowing down for the skyline [/development-watch-proposed-new-law-let-skyline-get-even-taller-parkslopestoop/] near Barclays as the recently completed 461 Dean Street [http://www.yimbynews.com/2016/11/touring-the-worlds-tallest-modular-building-at-461-dean-street-in-pacific-park.html]
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909a Cortelyou Road. (Photo by Ditmas Park Corner)Demolition has started this week on the single-story stucco shed at the corner of Cortelyou Road and East 9th Street, a relic of “Eddy’s shoemaker” & watch repair shop. The stone hut was built as a 5-car garage in 1923, and
Central Brooklyn
909a Cortelyou Road. (Photo by Ditmas Park Corner)Demolition has started this week on the single-story stucco shed at the corner of Cortelyou Road and East 9th Street, a relic of “Eddy’s shoemaker” & watch repair shop. The stone hut was built as a 5-car garage in 1923, and
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The current comfort station at Bill Brown Park as seen from Bedford Avenue. Photo via Google Maps.It’s been over a year and a half, and Bill Brown park still doesn’t have its multi-million dollar bathroom. We last reported on the park’s project [/the-bill-brown-park-getting-pumped-with-2-6-million-for-new-bathroom/] when it was