Nonsponsored
PARK SLOPE – 267 6th Avenue (at Garfield), the former home of the Swedish-American Athletic Club, recently went on the market with a sale price of $5.999 million. 267 6th Avenue, November 2016 (Photo: Pamela Wong / BKLYNER)Built in the 1870s, the 7,200-square-foot brownstone housed the Swedish-American Athletic Club
Greenpoint
GREENPOINT – In the ongoing community engagement process surrounding the environmental remediation of the toxic NuHart site [/nuhart-site-meeting-tonight/], another meeting will provide an outlet for concerned parents regarding a proposed school near the site. Local Councilmember Stephen Levin (D-33) will host a meeting about the school for local parents next week
News
A rendering of the new development that will replace a gas station on Flatbush Avenue (Via S9 Architects)FLATLANDS – A gas station on Flatbush Avenue near Brooklyn College will be replaced by a 13-story mixed-use development. The building will consist of residential rentals above ground floor retail, with a design
Cobble Hill
COBBLE HILL – At last Thursday’s Brooklyn Community Board 6 Landmarks & Land Use Committee [https://www1.nyc.gov/site/brooklyncb6/committees/landmarks-land-use.page] meeting, representatives from Fortis Property Group [https://fortispropertygroup.com/] presented plans to build a nine-foot-tall brick wall on the Amity Street side of the developer’s
Carroll Gardens
COLUMBIA STREET WATERFRONT DISTRICT – The PS 15 auditorium was packed Thursday evening for the Brooklyn Community Board 6 Landmarks & Land Use Committee [https://www1.nyc.gov/site/brooklyncb6/committees/landmarks-land-use.page] meeting where a public hearing was held for 41 Summit Street. Rendering of 41 Summit Street via Sheldon
fort greene
FORT GREENE – An affordable housing lottery launched last week for 73 newly constructed apartments at 810 Fulton Street (at Clermont Avenue) on the border of Fort Greene and Clinton Hill. 810 Fulton Street (Photo: RXR Realty [http://www.rxrrealty.com/property/development/810-fulton-street/])Designed by Aufgang Architects [http://portfolio.aufgang.
Central Brooklyn
80 Flatbush rendering, Courtesy of Alloy Development and LuxigonLottery winners may have it made in the shade, but in real estate, sunlight sounds better. A new study from Localize [http://labs.localize.city/we-found-the-buildings-with-the-most-shade/] used a custom algorithm to discover the buildings in Brooklyn that are deepest in the shadows.
Announcements
Google Maps screenshot of 239 Hawthorne St.PROSPECT LEFFERTS GARDENS — Applications are closing November 5 at midnight for new one-bedroom affordable housing units in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens. There are three affordable one bedroom units available in the four-story building at 239 Hawthorne Street between Nostrand and Rogers Avenues. The building is
environment
The former NuHart site will have to undergo environmental remediation before development on the site can begin (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)GREENPOINT – Earlier this month, many residents of Greenpoint left a public meeting about environmental concerns [/nuhart-site-meeting-tonight/] at the former NuHarte Plastics site feeling like they needed more information. Now, they’
Health
PARK SLOPE – Early in the summer, tenants at the corner of 5th Street and Prospect Park West saw the garden in front of their home being removed because of a recurring rat problem, but some on the block believe poor trash management is at the center of the issue. The
Bushwick
The new Jefferson Street building was designed by Stat Architecture for Neighborhood Restore (Via Stat Architecture [http://www.statarchitecture.com/]) BUSHWICK – A new building planned for Bushwick is being built by a non-profit developer, with four condos planned for the site that will apparently be affordable housing. The four-story apartment
Business
409 RemsenEAST FLATBUSH – Community Board 17 voted overwhelmingly against reinstating a prior variance for an automotive repair service in East Flatbush at their October 17 general meeting. Members complained the lot at 406 Remsen Avenue and Lenox Rd. — for years — has been a hub for trash, double-parked cars and barking