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Not Here: Bensonhurst Opposes The Only Family Shelter

As the city’s homeless census reaches an all-time high, residents are pushing back against the city’s plans to build a family shelter in Bensonhurst. It would be the only shelter of any kind in the neighborhood.

Real Estate

Will Flatbush Gardens' cycle of disrepair end with another sale?

The massive, 59-building complex can reportedly be had for $425 million. It comes with over 4,000 violations and unhappy tenants.

Real Estate

Brooklyn Tenants Rally Outside Ocean Avenue Building Demanding Repairs

Tenants rallied outside their Flatbush apartment building this morning to demand the landlord address what they say are long-standing problems that put their safety at risk.

Development

Deal Reached to Keep Associated Supermarket On Nostrand Ave in Crown Heights After Redevelopment

A contentious fight over the future of a Crown Heights supermarket seems to have come to a resolution.

Real Estate

Housing Court’s Return To Pre-Pandemic Procedures Irks Advocates As Judges Prepare For Eviction Hearings

A state-imposed moratorium halted nearly all residential eviction proceedings, but urgent cases concerning building conditions and harassment have continued, mostly virtually. That is now changing.

Real Estate

Massive East New York Affordable Housing Project To Start Construction Next Month

Phipps has secured financing for an affordable housing project that will be the largest development in East New York since the neighborhood since it was rezoned in 2016.

Real Estate

Brooklyn Community Board 9 Votes Against Proposed Towers at Crown Heights Spice Factory Site

The Board voted down a controversial rezoning proposal that would allow for the construction of two residential towers over 30 stories tall at 960 Franklin Avenue.

Real Estate

Brooklyn Community Board 6 Approves Gowanus Rezoning with Conditions

Brooklyn Community Board 6's advisory vote conditions approval for the contentious rezoning proposal on funding for nearby NYCHA housing, among other asks.

Real Estate

1 Willoughby Square, Downtown Brooklyn’s Tallest Office Tower, Is Open

This morning Mayor Bill de Blasio celebrated along with the owners, JEMB Realty Corporation, Rachel Loeb, President and CEO of New York City Economic Development Corporation, and local politicians the completion of 1 Willoughby Square in Downtown Brooklyn. Since the area was rezoned in 2004, at least 41 million square

Real Estate

Battle Over Rent Hikes Turns to Who’s Suffered More: Tenants or Landlords?

The Rent Guidelines Board is slated this month to announce its final decision on rent increases for leases beginning in October or later after establishing a range of 0% to 2% for one-year leases.

Real Estate

Rent Relief Applications Open in New York June 1: What Tenants and Landlords Need to Know

By Allison Dikanovic, THE CITY. This article was originally published [https://www.thecity.nyc/2021/5/28/22458541/rent-relief-applications-open-in-new-york-june-1-tenants-landlords] by THE CITY [https://www.thecity.nyc/] “Cancel Rent” poster inside the advertising frame of a phone booth in Two Bridges on Friday, May 29, 2020. | Hiram Alejandro Durán/THE CITYThis

Central Brooklyn

Worker Fell to Death From Flatbush Historic Bank Site: Police

The Flatbush Savings Bank building in March 2021. (Image: Dann Lawrence)A construction worker has fallen to his death at the site of a half-demolished historic bank building, according to police. The 49-year-old man was part of a crew working inside the former Flatbush Savings Bank building at 1045 Flatbush

affordable housing

What To Preserve And What To Develop – Some District 39 Council Candidates Can’t Seem To Make Up Their Minds About Park Slope

Does landmarking make neighborhoods more affordable or more expensive? Some Park Slope council candidates can’t seem to decide. At a debate on Sunday, seven candidates seeking to replace term-limited Brad Lander in the Council District 39 seat were asked if they would support expanding the Park Slope Historic District

News

City’s Property Tax Reform Commission Hosting Brooklyn Hearing This Week

East 25th Street in East Flatbush. (Image: Liena Zagare/Bklyner)A panel seeking to simplify the city’s notoriously byzantine and inequitable property tax system is seeking public input on its draft recommendations. The New York City Advisory Commission on Property Tax Reform [https://www1.nyc.gov/site/propertytaxreform/index.

Food & Drink

City Proposes Expanding Supermarket Zoning Incentive to More Neighborhoods, And It’s About More Than Just Fresh Food

The Lincoln Market supermarket in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens, which was developed under the city’s FRESH zoning incentive program. (Image: Google Maps)Public review has begun on a proposal to expand the number of neighborhoods where developers can build bigger in exchange for providing ground-floor space for a supermarket. The Food

Education

St. Francis College To Get New Campus Above Macy’s Downtown

Courtesy of St. Francis CollegeSt. Francis College is planning to move to a brand new campus in the heart of downtown Brooklyn next year. The 162-year-old college announced yesterday it had signed a 30-year lease for about 255,000 square feet across three floors of the Wheeler Building (181 Livingston

affordable housing

80 Flatbush Project Swaps Office Space for Mostly Market-Rate Housing in First Tower As It Begins Construction

The 80 Flatbush parcel from the corner of Flatbush Avenue and State Street, looking up Flatbush. A 44-story, 480-foot tower should launch within the next months. Photo by Norman Oder/BklynerThe 80 Flatbush project, in Downtown Brooklyn at the edge of Boerum Hill, is set to finally start construction on

Central Brooklyn

City Landmarks Commission Approves Controversial Development at Hebron School in Crown Heights

Rendering of the approved development. (Image: Morris Adjmi Architects)The city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) approved a hotly-contested proposal to build a residential development next to the Hebron Seventh Day Adventist School in Crown Heights on Tuesday,. The development, which the LPC approved unanimously at its Tuesday hearing [https:

Central Brooklyn

New Target Opens at Kings Highway Plaza

Kings Highway Plaza at 5200 Kings Highway. (Image: RIPCO Real Estate)A new Target has opened in East Flatbush, alongside outposts of Smashburger and the discount store Five Below. All three leases are within the Kings Highway Plaza [https://www.ripcony.com/property-listings/5200-kings-hwy-brooklyn-ny-11234/] development at 5200 Kings Highway, and

Gowanus

Judge Pauses Gowanus Rezoning While City Provides Community Engagement Plan

The Gowanus Canal. (Image: Google Maps)A judge has temporarily stopped the clock on the contested Gowanus rezoning [https://www1.nyc.gov/site/planning/plans/gowanus/gowanus-framework.page] process, ordering the city to provide the court with details for a planned public meeting before the process can continue. On Friday,

affordable housing

CB8 Land Use Committee Votes Against Developer’s Revised Proposal For Tower At Atlantic & Vanderbilt

Developer’s argument that corner site deserves more density.The developers of 840 Atlantic Avenue [/?s=%22840+Atlantic%22], a proposed 18-story residential tower at the southeast corner of Vanderbilt Avenue, have for months sought Community Board 8 (CB8)’s support for upzoning a site occupied mainly by a drive-through

News

As Red Hook Houses Without Gas Again, Residents and Elected Officials Push for Repairs and Rent Reduction

Assembly Member Marcela Mitaynes and Council Member Antonio Reynoso at a press event on Thursday, May 6th, 2021. (Image: Billy Richling/Bklyner)Assembly Member Marcela Mitaynes and Council Member Antonio Reynoso joined local residents outside NYCHA’s Red Hook Houses on Thursday afternoon to draw attention to ongoing cooking gas

Central Brooklyn

Brooklyn Public Library Cuts the Ribbon on Remodeled Central Branch

The “New & Noteworthy” section at the remodeled Central Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library. (Image: BPL)The leadership of Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) and public officials gathered on Thursday morning to unveil the first phase of a $60-million-renovation of the Central Library branch at Grand Army Plaza. The renovation [https:

News

The Top Destination for Manhattanites Fleeing the Pandemic This Past Year? Brooklyn

The Brooklyn Bridge connecting Brooklyn and Manhattan (Image: Tom Coe/Unsplash) As the coronavirus swept across the country last year, stories abounded of New Yorkers fleeing the cramped city en masse [https://nypost.com/2020/12/15/nycs-mass-covid-19-exodus-reportedly-cost-34b-in-income/] for more spacious climes, especially from the wealthy parts of Manhattan [https:

Central Brooklyn

District 40 Council Candidates On Small Business Support, Zoning and the NYPD’s Budget

One candidate wants to downzone the neighborhood. Another wants to remove up to $3 billion from the NYPD’s budget. Six candidates seeking to replace term-limited District 40 Council Member Mathieu Eugene gathered virtually last night for a forum organized by the Unified Political Association club [https://www.facebook.com/