Business
Industry City via Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/p/BTrP9g6hv6f/?hl=en&taken-by=industrycity]SUNSET PARK – With the expansion of Sunset Park’s Industry City in flux, the local City Council member hopes pumping the brakes on the project’s approval process will serve as a model that shifts
Boerum Hill
BOERUM HILL/PARK SLOPE – Work is currently underway for a new mixed-use building spanning several lots on 4th Avenue between Warren Street and Saint Marks Place. 4th Avenue between Saint Marks Place & Warren Street (Photo: Pamela Wong/Bklyner)Development firm Level One Holdings [http://leveloneholdings.com] filed plans earlier
community
PARK SLOPE – Following a heated meeting on two homeless shelters planned for 535 and 555 4th Avenue [/heated-meeting-about-two-4th-avenue-homeless-shelters/], a group of neighbors has united in an effort to get answers from the city. 535 4th Avenue & 555 4th Avenue (Photo: Pamela Wong/Bklyner)“We care deeply about how best
affordable housing
This piece was written by Janice Hamilton and Lincoln Eccles. Hamilton provides affordable rent-stabilized housing to families in her 8-unit building in Prospect Heights, while Eccles houses 14 families in his rent-stabilized building in Crown Heights. Rent-stabilized buildings like ours are family businesses. Our immigrant grandparents and parents came to
affordable housing
CROWN HEIGHTS—State Sen. Zelllnor Myrie hosted a dozen city representatives and advocates on Thursday who informed residents on housing issues including the recent change in the city’s area median income. [https://www1.nyc.gov/site/hpd/renters/area-median-income.page] The area median income (AMI) for a family of
affordable housing
Kristina CousarBy Kristina Cousar This Mother’s Day there are too many moms in Brooklyn struggling to make ends meet, especially because so many of us are the sole breadwinners. So it’s really no surprise that so many of us have been forced to move our families into shelters.
Arts & Culture
475 Clermont – 9th-floor roof terrace. Rendering courtesy of RXR Realty.FORT GREENE – When one thinks rental in Brooklyn, one rarely thinks of getting to rent at a building that offers amenities akin to luxury hotels. However, that seems to be the trend for most new developments situated downtown and nearby,
Bushwick
A week and half into the L Train slowdown and things are…okay. The plan, which replaced the much-dreaded L Train shutdown, has left commuters a bit irritated, but not wholly upset about the service changes. The L train line at Bedford Avenue. Todd Maisel/BklynerSo what exactly are riders
Central Brooklyn
DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN – Perhaps it was fitting that the 9th Annual Only Brooklyn Real Estate Conference [/see-you-tomorrow-only-brooklyn/] was held at the Alamo Drafthouse. The upsurge in the borough in the past decade only could have been written from a Hollywood script. Only Brooklyn Real Estate Conference 2019 (Photo: Bojan Hohnjec Studio
Arts & Culture
PARK SLOPE – The 60th Annual Park Slope House Tour [https://parkslopeciviccouncil.org/the-60th-annual-park-slope-house-tour/], scheduled for Sunday, May 19, invites attendees to take self-guided tours of historic brownstones throughout the neighborhood. Montauk Club (Photo: Pamela Wong/Bklyner)Advance tickets can be purchased for $25 online [https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4102301]
midwood
A car smashed into a building on Avenue P in Midwood, collapsing the building. MIDWOOD – A driver lost control of his vehicle and crashed into a two-story Midwood building, sending the structure tumbling down on top of it, briefly trapping the driver and the occupants, police said. Police say the
Business
Join TerraCRG tomorrow as we host our 9th Annual Only Brooklyn Real Estate Conference [http://www.onlybklyn.com/] in partnership with MNS Real Estate. You’ll hear from the most active players in Brooklyn commercial real estate through a full day of programming at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Downtown