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[UPDATE] Bye Bye Key Food: Deal Closed, Construction To Begin This Year

Photo by BKLYNER[Updated: Monday, April 3 at 9:30am] City Council Member Brad Lander’s office released an announcement [http://bradlander.nyc/news/updates/agreement-reached-for-neighborhood-supermarket-affordable-housing-at-5th-avenue-key-foo] on Thursday, March 30 regarding the agreement reached [/bye-bye-key-food-deal-closed-construction-begin-year/] with Avery Hall Investments on the Key Food site located at 120 Fifth Avenue. “The

Central Brooklyn

Southern Brooklyn Real Estate Roundup: These Deals Are No Joke

Ever need some Comic Relief [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_Relief_USA]? Well, you have a better chance of seeing Andy Kaufman live than finding it here. … The joke’s on you! I’m funnier than Tony Clifton *and* I’ve got links to the best real estate deals

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Asking Rents For Prime 7th Avenue Retail Space Up

Photo by BKLYNERThe Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY) released its Winter 2017 Brooklyn Retail Report [https://www.rebny.com/content/rebny/en/research/REBNYRetailReport/Winter_2017_Brooklyn_Retail_Report.html] yesterday, revealing that the average asking rents for available ground floor retail spaces have increased in seven of

Arts & Culture

Giant ‘Lily Pads’ Will Protect Red Hook Houses From Future Flooding

Rendering via KPFNYCHA has commissioned architectural firm Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF) to design a resiliency and renewal program for the Red Hook Houses in response to the devastation caused by Superstorm Sandy in 2012. The storm left thousands of Red Hook residents without power and basic necessities for weeks

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Brownstone Belt Real Estate Round-Up: You Must Be Joking

Wrestlemania is this Sunday, and so this week’s theme will be legendary independent pro wrestlers with submission finishers. ….I kid [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3BE-Ck1D58]. I kid because I love. (Early) April Fools! But don’t be a freier [http://www.haaretz.com/thou-shalt-not-be-a-freier-1.211247] and get

Central Brooklyn

The Trump Effect On Affordable Housing

Ingersoll Houses at Navy and Myrtle by snapitschelsea via Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/p/BRd6wyxlUah/?taken-at=258605691]President Trump’s initial budget outline would cut millions of dollars from affordable housing projects across New York City. The NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD), which develops affordable housing

history

Historic Real Estate: 14 Martense Court Then & Now

(Photo by Carly Miller)Check out the latest house-for-sale in a quaint, tucked-away corner of Flatbush — in what a 1923 New York Times writer called, “the most desirable corner in Flatbush.” Martense Court, a tidy cul-de-sac at the corner of Martense Street between Flatbush and Bedford Avenues, is packed with

celebrity

Chloë Sevigny Moving Out Of ‘Dorkiest, Hokiest’ Brooklyn Nabe

Photo via Corcoran [http://www.corcoran.com/nyc/listings/display/3798550]Actress Chloë Sevigny is packing up and moving out of Park Slope, the area she once described as “the dorkiest, hokiest neighborhood [http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/08/24/chloe-sevigny-on-the-cosmopolitans-new-york-s-frat-boy-takeover-and-asshole-michael-alig.html] .” Sevigny purchased the four-bedroom, three-bathroom apartment at

Business

Bye Bye Key Food: Deal Closed, Construction To Begin This Year

Key Food, 120 Fifth Avenue (Photo by Nathan Haselby)One of the largest developments on 5th Avenue in Park Slope is getting closer to becoming reality: Avery Hall Investments has finally sealed the $45 million deal to acquire the site of Key Food property, Real Deal reported yesterday. Avery Hall’

News

Judge Issues Another Block On Crown Heights Homeless Shelter

1173 Bergen Street via Google MapsThe battle continues over the opening of a senior men’s homeless shelter at 1173 Bergen Street in Crown Heights. Today Brooklyn Supreme Court Judge Katherine Levine issued a temporary injunction against the shelter, extending the previous temporary restraining order until mid-April while she reviews

history

Are War Heroes Buried Beneath A Gowanus Parking Lot?

The vacant lot on 9th Street between 3rd & 4th Avenues believed to be the final resting place of hundreds of Revolutionary War heroes (Image via Google Maps)A vacant lot located on 9th Street between 3rd & 4th Avenues in Gowanus may be the final resting place of hundreds

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DHS Responds to Temporary Block On Crown Heights Homeless Shelter

1173 Bergen Street via Google MapsThe New York City Department of Home Services Press Secretary, Isaac McGinn, reached out to BKLYNER late Friday with additional information following the court-issued temporary block [/temporary-block-issued-crown-heights-homeless-shelter/] on the homeless shelter proposed for 1173 Bergen Street in Crown Heights. “Despite today’s ruling, we are