Jan. 30, 2025 By Anna Bradley-Smith A major redevelopment project, set to transform a 10-building commercial site near the Brooklyn Navy Yard into a mixed-use area, has entered the city’s land use review process. A 2.6-acre block in Clinton Hill that sits across from the Brooklyn Navy Yard and is currently being mostly used…
Jan. 29, 2025 By Adam Daly A beloved Flatbush pizzeria served its last slices Tuesday, leaving loyal customers stunned after its landlord reportedly ordered it and neighboring businesses to vacate by the end of the month. Mike’s Pizza, a neighborhood staple at the corner of Bedford and Clarkson avenues, is one of eight businesses…
Jan. 27, 2025 By Anna Bradley-Smith A newly constructed 17-story apartment tower on Gowanus’ Fourth Avenue, made possible by the neighborhood’s recent rezoning, has officially launched an affordable housing lottery for eligible renters. The Douglass Street Apartments building, which replaces a BP gas station, will have a total of 188 apartments and climbs to…
Jan. 22, 2025 By Kirstyn Brendlen A limited-run art exhibition at a new luxury development in Gowanus marries the nabe’s industrial history with its more high-end future. “Tides at Gowanus Wharf,” featuring works by five local artists, will run for three days at the new Union Channel building on Third Avenue starting Jan. 24.…
Jan. 22, 2025 By Anna Bradley-Smith A housing lottery has launched for a truly affordable under-construction seven-story development on the corner of East New York’s Shepherd and Glenmore avenues. Studio apartments start at $544 a month and one-bedrooms at $689. The lottery for the development at 365 Shepherd Avenue includes 40 units, all rent…
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. 16, 2025 By Kirstyn Brendlen Community Board 13’s Land Use Committee dealt a blow to the proposed Coney Island casino on Wednesday night, as it voted to deny developers’ application to alter land use restrictions to make way for the facility. After a heated two-hour meeting, the committee voted 7-2 against the application,…
Jan. 15, 2025 By Anna Bradley-Smith The lot that used to hold the pre-Civil War Gothic Revival St. Lucy-St. Patrick Roman Catholic Church on Bed-Stuy’s Willoughby Avenue is slated to be developed with at least two townhouses, city records show. One four-story two-family house is already rising at 291 Willoughby Avenue between Kent Avenue…
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%…
Jan. 9, 2025 By Kirstyn Brendlen “The Coney,” the casino seeking approval in the People’s Playground, will create a $200 million community trust fund to support the area if it’s approved, the development team announced on Thursday. A board of local stakeholders, who would determine how the money would be used, would oversee the…