real estate

Aug
11
Are Things Looking Up for Brooklyn’s Office Market, or is it Just a Blip?

Are Things Looking Up for Brooklyn’s Office Market, or is it Just a Blip?

Brooklyn’s commercial office market seems to be showing renewed signs of life. But are hopeful second-quarter numbers the early signs of a post-pandemic comeback, or just an outlier?
4 min read
Aug
10
960 Franklin Avenue Rezoning Heads Back To City Planning With No Political Support

960 Franklin Avenue Rezoning Heads Back To City Planning With No Political Support

Brooklyn Borough President and likely-next mayor Eric Adams has formally registered his disapproval of a controversial rezoning proposal near the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens (BBG).
2 min read
Jul
22
Prospect Heights Brownstone Evacuated After Facade Partially Collapses

Prospect Heights Brownstone Evacuated After Facade Partially Collapses

Tenants were forced to vacate a three-story brownstone in Prospect Heights on Tuesday, July 20, after the building’s facade
2 min read
Jul
22
Rogue Brooklyn Building Demolition Stirs Furor and Questions About City Oversight

Rogue Brooklyn Building Demolition Stirs Furor and Questions About City Oversight

For years, Hadley and a group of concerned neighbors have complained to city agencies and local politicians about what they asserted were unauthorized demolition, unsafe conditions and trash dumping at the site and a property next door at 1931 Bedford Ave, writes Gabriel Sandoval from THE CITY.
6 min read
Jun
30
Caton Flats: Housing Lottery Opens for Below-Market Rate Apartments at Flatbush Development

Caton Flats: Housing Lottery Opens for Below-Market Rate Apartments at Flatbush Development

The application portal has opened for below-market-rate apartments at the newly-built Caton Flats development in Flatbush.
2 min read
Jun
28
New Developments Issue

New Developments Issue

Good evening. We'll start the week off with a couple of developments that have largely been under the
2 min read
Jun
28
Another 17-Story Building Proposed for Atlantic Avenue, Near Franklin Ave. Shuttle, This Time in CB 3

Another 17-Story Building Proposed for Atlantic Avenue, Near Franklin Ave. Shuttle, This Time in CB 3

The march of potential large development along broad Atlantic Avenue in Central Brooklyn continues, with Atlantic Brooklyn LLC, whose owners
8 min read
Jun
24
City Board Approves Unusual Mid-Year Rent Increase For Stabilized Tenants

City Board Approves Unusual Mid-Year Rent Increase For Stabilized Tenants

The Rent Guidelines Board voted to freeze rents at current levels for the first six months of one-year leases, while permitting landlords to raise rent by 1.5% for the remaining six months.
3 min read
Jun
16
Why do working class neighborhoods face relentless increases in property taxes, while landlords in upscale, politically connected neighborhoods pay far less?

Why do working class neighborhoods face relentless increases in property taxes, while landlords in upscale, politically connected neighborhoods pay far less?

A reader wonders why the property taxes on their Bensonhurst three family are more than Mayor de Blasio pays on his two Park Slope properties combined.
1 min read
Aug
22
This Weekend’s Fort Greene-Clinton Hill Open House Picks

This Weekend’s Fort Greene-Clinton Hill Open House Picks

We’ve rounded up some of the more interesting open houses happening around Fort Greene and Clinton Hill this weekend.
2 min read