Mar. 6, 2025 By Kirstyn Brendlen Two new businesses, a high-end grocery store and a pottery studio, are set to open in Gowanus this summer. Gowanus Marketplace and Hey Clay will both debut on the ground floor of a new mixed-use development, 420 Carroll, developers announced Thursday. The businesses will join hundreds of residential…
Feb. 13, 2025 By Anna Bradley-Smith After more than a year of packed hearings and heated debates, which spotlighted tensions about how to proceed with development in Brooklyn and beyond, a compromise has been reached on the proposed Arrow Linen rezoning in Park Slope. The new deal, announced Wednesday at two City Council committee…
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. 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.…
Nov. 27, 2024 By Anna Bradley-Smith The ambitious Brooklyn Yards development plan, an engineering feat that will build housing over an active rail line, was approved by the City Council on Thursday. The rezoning calls for a 14-building mixed-use mid-rise complex with 267 residences poised on a narrow platform spanning two blocks above a…
Nov. 12, 2024 By Anna Bradley-Smith After years of negotiations, Continuum’s planned residential tower on the former Spice Factory site near the Brooklyn Botanic Garden is set to move forward, with a new agreement reached today between the developer, local council member, and garden leadership on the building’s height and affordability. The 14-story tower…
Sep. 25, 2024 By Anna Bradley-Smith In a surprising twist, developer Continuum Company is throwing in the towel on its controversial rezoning application for the Spice Factory site in Crown Heights. The move comes just after City Planning Commission approved a tweaked version of the proposal Monday afternoon, designed to protect the nearby Brooklyn…
Sep. 11, 2024 By Anna Bradley-Smith It was standing room only, and barely any of that, at a heated two and a half hour public hearing on the Arrow Linen rezoning application in South Slope held by Community Board 7 Monday night, where 29 residents had the chance to speak to the crowd and…
Dec. 6, 2023 By Jada Camille
The Adams administration’s citywide, business-focused zoning proposal was met with skepticism at a Nov. 29 meeting of Community Board 10.
Nov. 30, 2023 By Anna Bradley-Smith Broadway Junction’s transformation to a commercial and residential hub is a step closer, with developer Totem Group filing plans to rezone a nearby triangle in Ocean Hill bordered by Van Sinderen, East New York, and Atlantic avenues and Fulton Street to pave the way for four towers ranging from…
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