Business
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS – After removing the iconic Watchtower sign [/iconic-watchtower-sign-gone/] from the Brooklyn skyline last December, Columbia Heights Associates are forging ahead with $80 million in renovations to transform five former Jehovah’s Witnesses buildings into Panorama, a 600,000-square-foot-plus deluxe office and retail complex. Rendering via Columbia Heights Associates/Volley
Neighbors
PROSPECT HEIGHTS – A group of local preservationists are campaigning to landmark the “Prospect Heights Apartment House District,” an area that is home to 82 historic apartment buildings, reports say. Turner Towers, 135 Eastern Parkway (Photo: Scott H. Gallant via Property Shark) The properties, built between 1909 and 1929, are laid
Announcements
An aerial rendering of the potential Bushwick Inlet Park from the 2005 master plan (Via NYC Parks)GREENPOINT – The Friends of Bushwick Inlet Park will hold a community meeting tomorrow night to revisit site’s 2005 master plan in an effort to involve local residents in the ongoing process of
Cobble Hill
COBBLE HILL – Information was recently released regarding 5 River Park, the third tower being constructed as part of Fortis Property Group [http://fortispropertygroup.com/]‘s major redevelopment of several former Long Island College Hospital (LICH) sites into luxury residences. Via riverparkbrooklyn.com [https://riverparkbrooklyn.com/pdf/RiverPark-MasterPlan.pdf]Located at
Announcements
CYPRESS HILLS – As the effects on gentrification creep across Brooklyn, expanding ever further from the East River, recent history can show those in the outer edges of the outer boroughs what has worked and what hasn’t in the fight against rising rents, development and displacement. As part of the
Business
PARK SLOPE – Here’s a list of some recent or upcoming business changes around Park Slope. Let us know if we’ve missed anything in the comments or at editor@bklyner.com. The sign posted at A&E Supply Co., 548 4th Avenue (Photo: Nathan Haselby)A&E
Business
CONEY ISLAND – NYC Department of Small Business Services (SBS) has released the recently completed Commercial District Needs Assessment for Coney Island [http://www1.nyc.gov/assets/sbs/downloads/pdf/neighborhoods/n360-cdna-coney-island.pdf] – one way the city is helping facilitate conversations about what is happening along the commercial corridors in our
Nonsponsored
Photo via Red Apple Real EstateA new rendering has been revealed for “Ocean Dreams [/catsimatidis-scoops-up-new-property-after-city-ignores-coney-islands-west-end-sheepshead-bay/] ” at 3514 Surf Avenue, the 21-story, 311-unit mixed-use development John Catsimatidis’ Red Apple Real Estate filed applications to build on the last day of 2016 [/21-story-apartment-retail-complex-tower-coney-island-boardwalk/]. The building, to be constructed on a vacant Coney
Bushwick
The one-bedroom unit in the former clocktower spent only one day on the market (Photo via Nooklyn)BUSHWICK – In Bushwick, it turns out you can rent yourself an ivory tower. Or at the very least, a really expensive brick one. A record-setting rental for the North Brooklyn neighborhood was snapped
Business
PARK SLOPE – The Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) [http://www1.nyc.gov/site/lpc/index.page] approved plans to restore 192 Prospect Park West, a single-story retail space beside the former Pavilion Theater situated across from Prospect Park. 188 and 192 Prospect Park West via Google MapsBack in 2014 [/relax-the-pavilion-is-not-becoming-condosjust-yet-kensington/], neighbors
Announcements
140 units of affordable housing on India Street in Greenpoint are now available via lottery (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)GREENPOINT – Along with the massive high-rise construction coming to Greenpoint’s exploding waterfront development scene, a new building’s worth of affordable housing units has just been added to the NYC Housing
Business
227 4th Avenue, the former Brooklyn Lyceum is now home to Blink Fitness (April 2017 photo by Pamela Wong/BKLYNER)PARK SLOPE – After debuting a new gym at a former 4th Avenue bathhouse [/blink-fitness-opens-in-historic-brooklyn-lyceum-building-august-1/] last August, Greystone Development has decided to put the landmarked building up for sale again. The