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.
Mar. 12, 2024 By Adam Daly
An Israeli real estate exposition due to take place on Friday at a Midwood synagogue has drawn scorn from local activists who are calling on elected officials to intervene and cancel the event advertising the sale of properties on occupied Palestinian land.
Feb. 22, 2024 By Susan De Vries
If you have a passion for sharing your neighborhood knowledge with other New Yorkers, the submission window is open to enter a tour plan for Jane’s Walk 2024. All of the walks in the annual May event are volunteer led and showcase all five boroughs.
Feb. 13, 2024 By Anna Bradley-Smith A change to city rules that would allow up to 250-unit, 250-foot-tall residential developments to be built without going through the city’s environmental review process was largely met with support at a public hearing Wednesday. However, Brooklyn was heavily represented in those who spoke against the proposal, with speakers…
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Feb. 9, 2024 By Gabriele Holtermann
As New York City faces the worst housing crisis in over 50 years, Governor Kathy Hochul on Friday announced that 18 new housing developments in Gowanus will move forward under the Gowanus Neighborhood Mixed Income Housing Development Program.
Feb. 8, 2024 By Anna Bradley-Smith
Work is almost complete on the borough’s first supertall, The Brooklyn Tower, with facade installation wrapping up on the building’s double-height plinth and tenants and homeowners already taking up residence in the skyscraper that towers over it.