Jul. 28, 2025 By Claude Solnik Three’s a charm? After two apartment buildings housing nearly 2,000 residents went up nearby, Brooklyn-based BFC Partners broke ground today on a third Coney Island building that would house another 1,500 residents. The company, which completed Coney I three years ago and Coney II about a year ago,…
Jul. 25, 2025 By Gabriele Holtermann The vote on a sweeping proposal to redevelop 122 acres of Brooklyn’s industrial waterfront has been postponed for the fifth time. The Brooklyn Marine Terminal (BMT) plan, originally scheduled for a vote on the afternoon of July 24, was delayed after several members of the 28-member BMT Task…
Jul. 24, 2025 By Anna Bradley-Smith An affordable housing lottery for a new 22-story luxury tower overlooking the East River just south of the Williamsburg Bridge has debuted. The building is one of what will be five that make up the Naftali-developed complex dubbed Williamsburg Wharf, which includes a mix of luxury rentals and condos.…
Jul. 16, 2025 By state Sen. Andrew Gounardes We face a consequential decision on Brooklyn’s future. At stake is the Brooklyn Marine Terminal, a 122-acre waterfront site that has faced decades of disinvestment and deterioration. If a community-led Task Force approves a proposal to change that reality, it will kick off a decade-long transformation…
Jul. 15, 2025 By Kirstyn Brendlen A proposed development just north of Bushwick Inlet Park is stirring controversy among locals before the official rezoning process has even begun. Developers are hoping to build a mixed-use high-rise building at 40 Quay St., an MTA-owned lot that currently houses a truck wash station, as well as…
Jul. 14, 2025 By Ajani Stella Brownsville will get a new art center and over 200 affordable apartments in a city-subsidized housing plan, the mayor’s office announced last week. Three developers will collaborate to build the Brownsville Arts Center & Apartments, which will include 283 affordable apartments and a cultural arts center. The city…
Jul. 10, 2025 By Anna Bradley-Smith Home prices in Brooklyn have reached a new high yet again, but only slightly above where prices were sitting at the same time last year, second quarter reports show. Median home prices climbed 0.5% to $995,000 in the quarter compared to the same period a year earlier when…
Jul. 9, 2025 By Shane O’Brien When 80-year-old Carole Bellitti and her 50-year-old son John received word in March confirming they had been pre-approved for the CityFHEPS housing voucher program for low-income households, they thought their prayers had been answered. Carole and John, who were evicted from their southeast Brooklyn home in March after falling…
Jul. 9, 2025 By Anna Bradley-Smith An affordable housing lottery has launched for a recently completed nine-story development in Fort Greene dubbed The Elliot, with units starting at $2,004 a month for a studio. Rising at 151 South Elliott Place, on the site of a former parking lot, the development comprises a total of…
Jul. 7, 2025 By Kirstyn Brendlen & Lloyd Mitchell A two-alarm house fire in Bed-Stuy displaced 11 people and injured two, including a firefighter, on Saturday. The blaze broke out on the second floor of a two-family home on the 500 block of Halsey Street at 9:30 a.m. on July 5, according to the…