fort greene
FORT GREENE – Sales have launched for 75 Greene Avenue, the landmarked building that once housed the office of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn. Rendering via 75greene.com [http://75greene.com/]Located in the Fort Greene Historic District [https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/lpc/downloads/pdf/maps/HistoricDistrictMaps/Brooklyn/ft_
affordable housing
The Rev. Dr. Samuel Nicolas, Senior Pastor of Evangelical Crusade Christian-ChurchEAST FLATBUSH – A Brooklyn community broke ground on an affordable housing development Sunday afternoon, a project that’s been in the making for more than a decade. The project is the brainchild of the Rev. Dr. Samuel Nicolas of The
Brooklyn Heights
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS – One Clinton [https://www.oneclintonbk.com/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIw5OV8Pbj3wIVmY3ICh3zUw00EAAYASAAEgIxn_D_BwE] , the 38-story tower replacing the Brooklyn Heights Library at 280 Cadman Plaza West and Clinton Street, recently launched sales for some of the development’s 134 luxury condos. 280 Cadman Plaza West rendering [http://280cadman.com] via Marvel
Central Brooklyn
250 Parkville Avenue owned by Eric Silverstein (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)Just a couple days before Christmas, former Public Advocate Letitia James released the annual Worst Landlords list for the year 2018. In the years past, the list was usually published by Thanksgiving, except in 2011. But Ms. James was
Brooklyn Heights
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS – After selling their 4th Street townhouse in Park Slope [/emily-blunt-and-john-krasinski-list-park-slope-townhouse-for-8m/] last year, actors Emily Blunt and John Krasinski are headed to Brooklyn Heights. 171 Columbia Heights (Photo by Nicholas Strini, July 2012) via Property Shark [https://www.propertyshark.com/mason/]The couple reportedly paid just over $11 million
Central Brooklyn
1922 Rendering of Flatbush Presbyterian Church (Image: The Brooklyn Library) FLATBUSH – In the December issue of Bklyner [/a-bit-of-history-about-the-flatbush-church-looking-for-developer/] we wrote about the history of the 120-year-old Flatbush Presbyterian Church, and how it is likely to be redeveloped into housing, with space for a new church facility, under the current zoning
Central Brooklyn
WINDSOR TERRACE – Two southern food favorites—Butterfunk Kitchen [http://www.butterfunkkitchen.com] and Sumner’s Luncheonette [https://www.facebook.com/SumnersLuncheonette/]—shuttered at the end of 2018 as a result of rising rents. > [https://www.instagram.com/p/BrYz4pSARgE/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_medium=loading] [https://www.
Development
The corner of Clay and Commercial Streets, where a nine-story building will go up on a lot marred by toxic chemicals (Paul Stremple/Bklyner)GREENPOINT – Developers have filed for a new nine-story residential building in North Greenpoint, above a toxic plume of phthalates that has leaked from the Nuhart Site
Greenpoint
A pedestrian inspects the stop work order posted to the Greenpoint Library construction site (Paul Stremple/Bklyner)GREENPOINT – After delays pushing back the completion date of the Greenpoint Library by half a year, progress was being made on the site—until it was hit with a stop work order on
Bay Ridge
BAY RIDGE — Retailers continue to shutter in Southern Brooklyn and some of the more recent closings come after businesses have been in around for decades. Here are the latest additions to what has become a haven for vacant storefronts. Farewell postings of the Nathan’s Famous Hot Dogs in Dyker
Development
The site, currently a parking lot for trucks, where a new 31-story tower will rise (Screenshot via Google Maps)GREENPOINT – On Christmas Eve, the developer of Greenpoint Landing, a series of high-rise residential towers along the North Brooklyn waterfront, filed for yet another building [http://a810-bisweb.nyc.gov/bisweb/JobsQueryByNumberServlet?
community
Renderings used in a presentation for Franklin Avenue Rezoning on 09/26/2018. The Lincoln/Continuum site of the old Spice Factory is to the bottom right with the tall chimney stack.CROWN HEIGHTS – City Council approved the Franklin Avenue Rezoning plan with Cornell Realty [http://cornellrealty.com/] Thursday after