News
Photo screenshot from Google Maps.The big-name developer Sergey Rybak’s [http://www.sheepsheadbites.com/?s=rybak] Manhattan Beach home, at 239 Beaumont St, was the center of debate at the Community Board 15 meeting last night. Rybak filed for a special permit to go beyond the zoning variance of
News
Photo screenshot from Google Maps.The big-name developer Sergey Rybak’s [/?s=rybak] Manhattan Beach home, at 239 Beaumont St, was the center of debate at the Community Board 15 meeting last night. Rybak filed for a special permit to go beyond the zoning variance of the floor ratio of
fort greene
The DOT makes its presentation in favor of the bike lane last month. (Courtesy Fort Greene Focus/Justin Fox)There are meetings scheduled this week to address community input regarding a pair of local transit projects. Community Board 2 [/?s=community+board+2]‘s Transportation Committee will be holding a
Bensonhurst
Courtesy of Architect Chi F. Lau [http://chilauarchitectpc.com/?page_id=772] Renderings are now available for an eight-story building set to rise in Gravesend next year. Developer Ting Ming Fung, based in Bay Ridge, filed plans last year for the residential structure that will be built at 168 Avenue
andrew cuomo
Neighbors traveled to Albany last week to advocate for stronger rent regulations. Photo via the Flatbush Tenant Coalition [https://www.facebook.com/FlatbushTenantCoalition/photos/a.851935758213567.1073741872.268117579928724/851938288213314/?type=3&theater] The state’s laws regulating rent increases and eviction policies for the more than two million New
Politics
Facing the 23-story development that looms over the row of delis, pharmacies, and other mom-and-pop shops that line Flatbush Avenue, more than 100 people gathered at 626 Flatbush Avenue Thursday morning to protest the 421-a [http://www1.nyc.gov/site/hpd/developers/tax-incentives-421a.page] tax exemption program that neighbors said
421-a
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555 waverly avenue
Last week, news emerged that the Beigel’s Bakery [http://beigelsbakery.com] building on Waverly Avenue between Atlantic and Fulton had been purchased by developers for $23.5 million. The New York Daily News [http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/real-estate/real-estate-developer-buys-beloved-clinton-hill-kosher-bakery-23-5m-article-1.2000008] was the first to report that Madison Realty
Andrew Kalish
The thick, humid air might be weighing many of you down today, but that isn’t the case for busy bees around the neighborhood. Although we wouldn’t normally get this close for a photo, intrepid local Francisco Daum [https://www.flickr.com/photos/franciscodaum/5905040657] was able to brave
developers
The Q at Parkside [http://theqatparkside.blogspot.com/2014/02/123-on-park.html] posted a fascinating take Monday on 123 on the Park [http://123onthepark.com], the long-brewing conversion from Caledonian Hospital [http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/05/nyregion/neighborhood-report-flatbush-a-small-hospital-closes-and-its-friends-mourn.html] to residential units. Above is Tim’s snap of
1608 beverley road
Over the last couple months, we’ve noticed some changes at 1608 Beverley Road–the little house that’s sandwiched between the newish condos on the corner of E 16th and the older apartment building on the corner of E 17th–and as it turns out, a new 6-story, 12-unit