Aug. 29, 2023 By Anna Bradley-Smith
Play equipment is going in and landscaping and hardscaping are under way at Downtown Brooklyn’s Abolitionist Place park, a site with a long and convoluted history of controversy.
Aug. 18, 2023 By Wil Fisher It is no secret that housing in New York City is difficult to find. The city is a victim of its own economic success; the five boroughs have added only 19% as many new homes as jobs between 2010-2018 — creating a market in which high-earners win in a…
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Aug. 15, 2023 By Anna Bradley-Smith
A Clinton Hill man who stole the deeds to two Brooklyn homes and nearly $775,000 in mortgage funds using fake documents and shell companies will face up to nine years in prison after pleading guilty in Brooklyn Supreme Court on Aug 9.
Aug. 3, 2023 By Adam Daly
Local residents and stakeholders are rallying against the construction of a nine-story building adjacent to the landmarked Angel Guardian Home on Dyker Heights’ 12th Avenue, demanding developers address the concerns of residents and halt the project.
Jul. 24, 2023 By Jada Camille
The site of the former Century 21 flagship store in Bay Ridge will be transformed into an urban retail hub with the help of the family behind the beloved department store chain.
Jul. 21, 2023 By Jada Camille
A $34 million affordable housing development is rising in Crown Heights, Governor Kathy Hochul announced Thursday.
Jul. 14, 2023 By Kouichi Shirayanagi Coney Island’s kids want to enjoy themselves, but recently in an act that crossed all ethical boundaries, a local developer used them unwittingly as pawns to promote his bid to develop a casino in their neighborhood. In a long Coney Island tradition, on Saturday, July 1, a group of…
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Jul. 11, 2023 By Anna-Bradley Smith An affordable housing lottery has opened for studio and one and two-bedroom apartments in a forthcoming mixed-income development on Vanderbilt Avenue a few blocks northeast of Fort Greene Park. One block south of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, the property runs along Park Avenue, home to the elevated Brooklyn-Queens Expressway….
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Jul. 10, 2023 By Jada Camille
The final phase of a three-part development project in Coney Island is set to bring more than 400 affordable housing units to Surf Avenue.
Jun. 15, 2023 By Jada Camille
As they workshop their proposal to open a new casino in Coney Island, Thor Equities, the team of developers behind the bid, have announced they believe the new gaming facility would bring roughly 4,000 union jobs to the neighborhood.