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Comptroller Scott Stringer at a press conference outside Ingersoll Houses in Fort Green (Image by Sam Raskin/Bklyner)FORT GREENE — The city’s housing authority has been ‘botching’ maintenance of its buildings’ roofs, Comptroller Scott Stringer said Friday. “NYCHA wasted millions and has put tens of millions of dollars at
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PARK SLOPE – Officials took a grilling from Park Slope residents at a Community Board 7 [https://www1.nyc.gov/site/brooklyncb7/index.page] meeting Tuesday regarding two homeless shelters planned for 4th Avenue [/city-will-pay-over-261m-for-two-4th-avenue-family-shelters/]. Christine Quinn at the Community Board 7 meeting on the two planned 4th Avenue shelters (Photo:
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Council Member Robert Cornegy addresses the media ahead of Monday’s Third Party Transfer hearing (Image by Sam Raskin/ Bklyner)CITY HALL — Mayor de Blasio’s housing commissioner on Monday made an adamant defense of a heavily criticized housing program that allows the city to take control of homes whose
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Scoops and Plates Photo: Kadia Goba/BklynerPROSPECT LEFFERTS GARDENS— Continuing their efforts to save Scoops, a longtime vegetarian restaurant and ice cream shop facing threats of eviction, Prospect Lefferts Gardens and Flatbush residents gathered under the store’s awning Friday evening to demand that Scoops receive a renewed lease. The
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Flatbush Presbyterian Church on Foster and East 23rd in November of 2018. (Photo: Liena Zagare/Bklyner)FLATBUSH — A church in Flatbush that some neighborhood residents have wanted to save via landmarking in recent years has been sold for more than $3 million. The 120-year-old decommissioned Flatbush Presbyterian Church, located on
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Eric Adams. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)CROWN HEIGHTS — Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams and Council Member Laurie Cumbo gave their nods of approval on Friday to a community board proposal to create a new type of zoning that its proponents say would add and preserve jobs in central Brooklyn. Community
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The home that will soon be demolished ahead of construction (Image by Sam Raskin/ Bklyner)FLATBUSH—An eight-story apartment building will soon replace a townhouse at 290 Linden Boulevard. Permits have been filed [http://a810-bisweb.nyc.gov/bisweb/JobsQueryByLocationServlet?requestid=1&allbin=3108510&allstrt=LINDEN+BOULEVARD&allnumbhous=
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1600 Sheepshead Bay RoadSHEEPSHEAD BAY – Starbucks will take over space previously occupied by AT&T dealer, and plan to open the 1,525-square-foot space in the first quarter of 2020, expanding your options for a decent cup of coffee [/friends-open-specialty-coffeeshop-sheepshead/] in the neighborhood. Earlier this week, Muss Development LLC,
Announcements
PARK SLOPE – Brooklyn Community Board 7 [https://www1.nyc.gov/site/brooklyncb7/index.page] (CB7) has scheduled a meeting to discuss the two homeless shelters planned for 4th Avenue in Park Slope. CB7’s Committee on Homelessness Issues has scheduled the community forum for Tuesday, July 23, from 6:30pm
Cobble Hill
COBBLE HILL – Cobble Hill has usurped DUMBO as Brooklyn’s priciest neighborhood, according to Property Shark’s recently released report Priciest NYC Neighborhoods in Quarter 2 2019 [https://www.propertyshark.com/Real-Estate-Reports/priciest-NYC-neighborhoods]. Via Property SharkCobble Hill was the only Brooklyn neighborhood to make it into the top ten, coming
Boerum Hill
BOERUM HILL – After a mixed-use development including two towers received approval to rise on the border of Boerum Hill and Downtown Brooklyn, residents of the adjacent low-rise neighborhood are taking the developer and the city to court in an effort to stop the project from moving forward. 80 Flatbush school
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Rending of Bedford Arms (Image via Housing Partnership Development Corporation) CROWN HEIGHTS— New Yorkers looking for new below-market-rate apartments now have two months to apply for one in Crown Heights. On Monday, July 15, the affordable housing lottery officially opened for apartments in a new 93-unit building at 1336 Bedford