Real Estate

Apr
07
Small East Williamsburg Residential Proposal Gets Caught in a Larger Fight Over Land Use

Small East Williamsburg Residential Proposal Gets Caught in a Larger Fight Over Land Use

114 Kingsland Avenue (Image: Google Maps)IMAGE A proposal for a four-story apartment development in East Williamsburg is facing resistance
3 min read
Apr
06
Plan to Install Green Energy Storage on Williamsburg Roof Raises Tenants’ Ire

Plan to Install Green Energy Storage on Williamsburg Roof Raises Tenants’ Ire

315 Berry Street (Image: Google Maps)A proposal to install energy infrastructure on a Williamsburg roof to ease the load
5 min read
Mar
30
Design Nonprofit Launches Fellowship to Envision the Future of Gowanus

Design Nonprofit Launches Fellowship to Envision the Future of Gowanus

A rendering of the storefront of Van Alen Institute’s new location at 303 Bond Street in Gowanus, remade as
4 min read
Mar
29
Unintended Consequences: Advocates Concerned State Housing Bill Could Hurt Industrial Business Zones

Unintended Consequences: Advocates Concerned State Housing Bill Could Hurt Industrial Business Zones

State lawmakers are considering legislation to increase the city’s affordable housing stock, but groups who represent Brooklyn’s working
4 min read
Mar
29
Wonderforest Nature Preschool and Cain Sloan Store To Open At Pacific Park

Wonderforest Nature Preschool and Cain Sloan Store To Open At Pacific Park

38 Sixth Avenue in Pacific Park. (Image: Developer)A new pre-school and home decor shop are coming to Brooklyn. Greenland
2 min read
Mar
26
Controversial Neptune Ave Shelter Site To Get Both New Owner And New Provider

Controversial Neptune Ave Shelter Site To Get Both New Owner And New Provider

100 Neptune Avenue in Brighton Beach, the site of a planned 170-bed shelter. (Image from Google Maps)A well-known service
4 min read
Mar
25
Electrifying Brooklyn

Electrifying Brooklyn

By Martha Sickles, HCSB Brooklyn brownstones, rowhouses, small multifamily, and commercial buildings are trading in their polluting fossil fuel-generated heating
5 min read
Mar
23
OPINION – Poison Land and Poison Rhetoric: Gowanus Rezone Proponent Uses Personal Attacks to Sidestep Public Health Concerns

OPINION – Poison Land and Poison Rhetoric: Gowanus Rezone Proponent Uses Personal Attacks to Sidestep Public Health Concerns

Rendering of the post-rezoning Gowanus canal bridge crossing with waterfront development and pedestrian activity. (Rendering from the Department of City
3 min read
Mar
22
Will All 258 “Affordable” Units at Largest Pacific Park Tower Go to the Better-Off?

Will All 258 “Affordable” Units at Largest Pacific Park Tower Go to the Better-Off?

Empire State Development handoutThe largest building so far in Pacific Park Brooklyn, slated to open later this year, is set
5 min read
Mar
22
Two Trees Relaunches Push for Towers and a Beach on the Williamsburg Waterfront

Two Trees Relaunches Push for Towers and a Beach on the Williamsburg Waterfront

The proposed River Ring development in Williamsburg. (Image: Bjarke Ingels Group and James Corner Field Operations)A large-scale development proposal
3 min read