Condo of the Day: 110 Livingston Street, #16K
We’re not surprised that most of the photos for this two-bedroom listing at 110 Livingston Street in Downtown Brooklyn are of the fabulous 16th floor views–they rock, no doubt. The finishes are nice,...
View ArticleWindows Papered Up at the Fulton Street Five Guys
Only one year after opening, it looks as if the Five Guys at 1 Flatbush Avenue has closed. The business phone number is also out of service. Just last month the other Flatbush Avenue location, off...
View ArticleA Hotel Planned for the BAM Cultural District
Today the Post reports that the developer Second Development Services will build a hotel at 95 Rockwell Place, an area of the BAM Cultural District getting a lot of ink recently. The current building...
View ArticleChanges for Retail Space on 4th Avenue and Atlantic
A huge plywood fence is up around the retail space on the northwest corner of 4th and Atlantic avenues. This was formerly the Proline Electronics store, and while there’s a small space for Proline...
View ArticleLots of Glass at the 388 Bridge Street Build
There’s been swift progress at 388 Bridge Street, the massive DoBro development that will house both rental and condo units. The lower floors of the build will have 234 rental units and the upper...
View ArticleOfferman Conversion Slated for Summer Completion
The residential conversion happening at the beautiful landmarked Offerman Building on the Fulton Street Mall remains a mystery to us. Owner Al Laboz has planned this conversion for many, many years....
View ArticleEmpty Lot on Nevins and Schermerhorn Sells
Downtown Brooklyn’s Schermerhorn Street has seen a lot of action recently. A sale of the lot on the corner of Nevins and Shermerhorn streets, known as 321 Schermerhorn or 35 to 37 Nevins, just hit...
View ArticleDemolition Looms at the Hub Development Site
You can expect demolition any day now at the large site at 333 Schermerhorn Street in Downtown Brooklyn. (It’s just down the street from the lot on the corner of Schermerhorn and Nevins that sold...
View ArticleCommercial Klutch: February Edition
This month Chris Havens, director of commercial real estate at Aptsandlofts.com, takes a look at how tech is taking over and making over Downtown Brooklyn: As aptsandlofts.com pointed out in the...
View ArticleWork Begins at the Second Catsimatidis Rental Build
Construction workers have appeared at the empty lot on Fleet Street and Myrtle Avenue, where the second rental building in line for the area after the Andrea is slated to go up. The owner, billionaire...
View ArticleAnother Development Site on Fulton Mall Sells
Two vacant, mixed-use buildings on the Fulton Street Mall have sold for $12,750,000 in an all-cash deal, and could potentially be torn down to make way for a new development of about 90,000 square...
View ArticleBuilding of the Day: 77 Livingston Street
Brooklyn, one building at a time. Name: The Robert Livingston Apartments Address: 77 Livingston Street Cross Streets: Court and Boerum Street Neighborhood: Downtown Brooklyn Year Built: 1964...
View ArticleHuge BBQ Joint Coming to 345 Adams Street
Hill Country Barbeque is opening a 11,000-square-foot restaurant in Downtown Brooklyn at 345 Adams Street, according to the New York Times. Potbelly and Panera Bread have already opened in the...
View ArticleArt Coming to Willoughby Plaza This Summer
According to a Community Board Two bulletin, a new public art project is planned for the Willoughby Plaza this summer. The permanent Downtown Brooklyn plaza space, a total of 14,000 square feet,...
View ArticleKhim’s Millenium Market Open in Downtown Brooklyn
Khim’s Millenium Market is now open on the ground floor of the Brooklyner condo building in Downtown Brooklyn. It’s a mini-chain with grocery stores mostly in Williamsburg and Bushwick. The grocers...
View ArticleFamilies Push for Elementary School Downtown
A Downtown Brooklyn resident started the website Downtown Brooklyn School Solutions to ask for a new public elementary school in response to the neighborhood rezoning and building boom. There are...
View ArticleSecond Wave of Development to Transform Downtown
In just a few years, Brooklyn’s downtown will look like a different place, with lots more tall towers and housing — with about one fifth of it affordable, reported Crain’s New York. In the next two to...
View ArticleCeleste Diner Has Closed up Shop
A tipster forwarded along the news that the Celeste Diner on Tillary Street has closed after 25 years in business. He said, “I’m guessing the Concord Village Board think they can now get way more for...
View ArticleClosing Bell: Library Petition Grows
The Brooklyn Heights group Citizens Defending Libraries was out gathering signatures for a petition and holding meetings over the weekend in an effort to stop the sale of the Cadman Plaza branch of...
View ArticleAll Done at the Voorhees Hall Renovation
This week construction workers are putting the final touches on CUNY’s Voorhees Hall, at 186 Jay Street. This wraps a massive, one-year exterior transformation of the building. The exterior reno is...
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