May. 27, 2024 By Anna Bradley-Smith
After first contemplating a stretch of Willoughby Avenue and Hart Street in Bed-Stuy for protection in 1992, the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission has officially added it to the calendar for consideration as a new historic district, triggering an upcoming public hearing.
May. 21, 2024 By Anna Bradley-Smith
The city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission unanimously approved a sleek six-story apartment building, which nods to the neighboring historic architecture, for a long-vacant site on Park Slope’s Seventh Avenue at a meeting on Tuesday.
May. 14, 2024 By emarshall May 14, 2024 By Ethan Marshall A new city street in Long Island City, Malt Drive, is bringing extra residential units and community space to the community. Construction is nearing completion on a 1.43 million-square-foot luxury residential development at 2-20 and 2-21 Malt Dr. Additionally, Hunter’s Point South Park, located… Read more »
May. 14, 2024 By Anna Bradley-Smith
Department of Buildings records indicate that the historic, albeit heavily altered, mansion at the corner of Bushwick Avenue and Linden Street, standing since the late 1800s, is likely to undergo conversion into a six-story, 20-unit apartment building.
Apr. 29, 2024 By Anna Bradley-Smith The majority of the city’s housing development over the past 13 years has been in north and northwest Brooklyn, visualizations released last week show. And while development citywide has been substantial during that timeframe, with more than 297,500 new housing units constructed, the data also reflect slowdowns during periods…
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Apr. 22, 2024 By Susan De Vries
It’s a modest Crown Heights house, one of a stretch of brick dwellings with tidy front yards, but its owner in 1972 had a bold vision for change. Brooklynite Shirley Chisholm, already the first Black woman elected to Congress, launched her bid for president from the house in 1972.
Apr. 9, 2024 By Anna Bradley-Smith
An early racially integrated school in what was once the free Black community of Weeksville but is now Crown Heights will not become affordable housing as planned after all, but instead will be converted into a homeless shelter.
Mar. 28, 2024 By Kirstyn Brendlen
A woman who stole nearly $1 million from nine victims in a fraudulent real estate scheme will spend up to seven years in prison after she was sentenced in Brooklyn Supreme Court on Wednesday.
Mar. 27, 2024 By Anna Bradley-Smith
An affordable housing lottery has launched for 24 apartments in a new development on Greenpoint’s Franklin Street. Dubbed Franklin Court, the modern, 80-unit mixed-use building that replaces an old foundry sits on the corner of Franklin and Quay streets and also has a facade along a section of Calyer Street.
Mar. 14, 2024 By Cate Corcoran
Four historic properties in Brooklyn join more than a dozen receiving the 34th Annual Lucy G. Moses Preservation Awards from the New York Landmarks Conservancy next month. The awards honor outstanding adaptive reuse, preservation, or restoration projects for historic buildings of all kinds in New York City.