Tag: buildings

Lottery opens for affordable units at Gowanus’ newest development

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Jan. 3, 2025 By Anna Bradley-Smith The latest affordable housing lottery to open for a new development made possible by the Gowanus rezoning is for the still under-construction 499 President Street Apartments. The nine-story development, which wraps around the Royal Palms Shuffleboard building between Nevins and Union streets, comprises 350 apartments in total. Included…

Historic school in Crown Heights to be converted into homeless shelter

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Apr. 9, 2024 By Anna Bradley-Smith

An early racially integrated school in what was once the free Black community of Weeksville but is now Crown Heights will not become affordable housing as planned after all, but instead will be converted into a homeless shelter.

In 2023, Linden Street became a first for Bushwick

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Jan. 1, 2024 By Anna Bradley-Smith

With 2023 on the way out, we take our annual look back at the Brooklyn buildings and neighborhoods considered significant enough to merit designation by the Landmarks Preservation Commission during the year.