Jan. 12, 2024 By Kirstyn Brendlen
An affordable housing lottery to fill current and future vacancies in at Rose Castle on the border of Williamsburg and Bedford-Stuyvesant is now open. The nine-story mixed-use building at 31 Little Nassau St. offers 86 apartments total, with 77 considered “affordable” under the city’s 421-a tax program.
Jan. 11, 2024 By Anna Bradley-Smith
The historic St. Lucy-St. Patrick Roman Catholic Church, which has dominated a block of Bed-Stuy’s Willoughby Avenue since 1856, was torn down in clouds of dust this week to make way for housing.
Jan. 8, 2024 By Lloyd Mitchell & Kirstyn Brendlen
Just over a week after fireworks started a devastating four-alarm fire at the Boulevard Houses NYCHA development, residents and management are trying to work toward recovery.
Jan. 8, 2024 By Anna Bradley-Smith
A 19th century Romanesque Revival-style building on Williamsburg’s South 6th Street, built as as theater and until recently slated to be razed for a 26-story hotel, will keep its striking exterior and be converted to a 29-unit residential building.
Jan. 3, 2024 By Anna Bradley-Smith
An affordable housing lottery has launched for 87 apartments in a new development on Fort Greene’s South Portland Avenue. The site formerly belonged to an orphanage and is now among a row of church-owned properties.
Dec. 26, 2023 By Anna Bradley-Smith and Cate Corcoran
Under emergency contracts relating to the migrant crisis, and with little public oversight, warehouses in Gowanus and Clinton Hill are being converted into large homeless shelters that could potentially operate for years.
Dec. 22, 2023 By Kirstyn Brendlen
The four-alarm fire that destroyed a two-family apartment building in Greenpoint last week was accidental, FDNY investigators have concluded, and an investigation by Brooklyn Paper determined that the building was being foreclosed upon at the time of the fire.
Dec. 20, 2023 By Anna Bradley-Smith Locals fighting a rezoning plan to put up two 13-story residential buildings on Windsor Terrace’s Arrow Linen site aren’t against housing, members of the group told a community meeting on Dec. 13. They said they would be happy to see the site return to residential provided the new development…
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Dec. 14, 2023 Anna Bradley-Smith
An old Atlantic Avenue factory building that once housed the Brooklyn Daily Times may soon be torn down to make way for a new eight-story mixed-use development with 159 apartments, city records show.