Apr. 24, 2025 By Anna Bradley-Smith As the city prepares to hold the controversial tax lien sale for the first time since before the pandemic hit, housing advocates are warning that the program disproportionately targets Brooklyn’s most vulnerable residents and are urging homeowners to check if their properties are on the sale list. More…
Apr. 9, 2025 By Anna Bradley-Smith An affordable housing lottery has debuted for an under-construction tower on Gowanus’ 4th Avenue, the latest of several lottery launches tied to the neighborhood’s rezoning. Built on the site of a former taxi stand and garage at 380 4th Ave., the Longview will stand 175 feet tall with…
Mar. 14, 2025 By Anna Bradley-Smith A deeply affordable, fully subsidized apartment building has opened on a former Woodhull Hospital parking lot in Bed-Stuy, offering housing for low-income seniors and others, as well as patients of the NYC Health + Hospitals system who are experiencing homelessness. It is the second of a two-building complex…
Mar. 11, 2025 By Anna Bradley-Smith A four-story commercial building that mixes orange brick, ornamentation, and round poles with a dramatic glass and steel top-story overhang is planned to fill a vacant corner lot on Wythe Avenue in Williamsburg, renderings show. The structure’s lower floors are reminiscent of a 19th century cast iron commercial…
Feb. 26, 2025 By Susan De Vries Share your passion for your neighborhood with other New Yorkers by volunteering to lead a tour for Jane’s Walk 2025. Enthusiastic locals can now submit tour plans for the May event, which features free walking tours in all five boroughs. Hosted by the Municipal Art Society (MAS)…
Feb. 18, 2025 By Susan De Vries Get an up-close look at hundreds of deftly detailed quilts by the stitchers of the Brooklyn Quilters Guild at their spring show. In April, the guild is hosting Brooklyn Quilts!, its biennial show, with over 200 quilts on display. The styles on view will range from traditional…
Feb. 5, 2025 By Anna Bradley-Smith Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso has given his approval with conditions to the Atlantic Avenue Mixed-Use Plan, a sweeping rezoning proposal aimed at transforming a stretch of Atlantic Avenue and surrounding blocks in central Brooklyn. While endorsing the plan’s goals of expanding housing, job opportunities, and infrastructure improvements,…
Jan. 20, 2025 By Anna Bradley-Smith The controversial Arrow Linen rezoning, which would see the development of two 13-story apartment buildings on a currently low-rise Park Slope site, was the subject of yet another heated public hearing earlier this month — this time at the City Council. Sixty-eight people testified in front of the…
Jan. 15, 2025 By Anna Bradley-Smith An affordable housing lottery has launched for an under-construction 17-story, 569-unit development dubbed Loden, with units starting at $914 a month for a studio. Rising half a block from the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in Crown Heights south, and overlooking the S shuttle train tracks, the complex at 54…
Jan. 9, 2025 By Anna Bradley-Smith An affordable housing lottery has opened for 68 apartments in a 100% affordable development that spans a block along Atlantic Avenue in East New York. The one-, two-, and three-bedroom apartments at 265 Logan Street, dubbed The Logan Fountain, are aimed at households earning between 40% and 70%…