Oct. 9, 2023 By Ximena Del Cerro
Renters can make a number of changes to reduce their carbon footprint without getting the permission of their landlords or spending big on items such as solar panels, insulation or switching to methane-free stoves.
Oct. 5, 2023 By Anna Bradley-Smith
Popular East Village Ukrainian restaurant Veselka, after earlier this year announcing plans to expand to Brooklyn, will make its Kings County debut in a former car wash on Williamsburg’s Lorimer Street, next to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.
Oct. 4, 2023 By Jada Camille
Council Member Justin Brannan announced Monday that he has secured $51 million in capital funding to reconstruct and modernize segments of the sewerage system in parts of Dyker Heights that often experience backflow flooding when it rains.
Oct. 4, 2023 By Melissa Fishman
Small businesses in Brooklyn are struggling to recover from the floodwaters that inundated New York late last week, which posed long-term problems with few solutions in sight.
Sep. 27, 2023 By Anna Bradley-Smith
Almost six years and a global pandemic after the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission approved the unexpected design for Williamsburg’s Domino Sugar Refinery, construction is wrapping on the iconic building and the office portion was expected to be finished on Sept. 27, according to developer Two Trees.
Sep. 26, 2023 By Anna Bradley-Smith
An affordable housing lottery has opened for 22 studio, one-, and two-bedroom apartments in an almost finished development on the corner of Warwick Street and Pitkin Avenue in East New York.
Sep. 19, 2023 By Anna Bradley-Smith More than a year after the shocking demolition of the historic Jacob Dangler mansion at 441 Willoughby Avenue by a local developer with plans for a new apartment building, the site remains empty and still under the ownership of the struggling nonprofit that said it made a deal to sell the beloved French Gothic Revival building to avoid foreclosure. While court filings show the nonprofit has not yet filed a petition with the state attorney general to sell the property, documents recorded only last week by the city show a $1.525 million mortgage was…
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Sep. 13, 2023 By Jada Camille
In the midst of a heady campaign season, southern Brooklyn council members say they are being unfairly and anonymously hit with 311 complaints — but not for the reasons they may have thought.
Sep. 8, 2023 By Isabel Song Beer
Greenpoint residents testified in the New York Supreme Court last week in the latest effort in the ongoing battle to save the beloved Park Church Co-Op.
Sep. 6, 2023 By Anna Bradley-Smith A report released last week by Crown Heights Council Member Crystal Hudson and the Department of City Planning details how locals want to see development play out around an industrial corridor of Atlantic Avenue largely in Crown Heights. If adopted, it would lead to a dramatic transformation of the…
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