Articles by Rebecca Baird-Remba

25-29 Cox Place in April 2015. photo by Christopher Bride for PropertyShark

Permits Filed: Cypress Hills Townhouses, 25-29 Cox Place

As the administration’s East New York rezoning marches through the public review process, small market-rate developments are growing on the neighborhood’s outskirts, away from the rezoning area south of Atlantic Avenue. One such project is in the works in Cypress Hills, the northern section of the neighborhood that stretches from Atlantic up to the acres of cemeteries along the Brooklyn-Queens border.

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10 Sullivan's curved facade

10 Sullivan Street Nears the Finish Line in Soho

The flatiron-shaped facade at 10 Sullivan Street in Soho has most of its hand-laid Norman bricks and curved glass, and workers are busily installing bathroom tile and gas fireplaces. The building will eventually top out at 16 stories and hold 22 condos on a triangular lot wedged between Sullivan Street, 6th Avenue, Spring, and Broome Streets.

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2150 Mill Avenue, image via Bing Maps

Mill Basin Hebrew School Plans Housing, 2150 Mill Avenue

Most Brooklynites know that Borough Park and Midwood are Orthodox Jewish strongholds, but fewer people are familiar with the somewhat smaller, tight-knit Jewish community in Mill Basin, a coastal neighborhood along Jamaica Bay. A developer plans to build six stories of faculty and staff housing next door to a Jewish charter school, according to new building applications filed yesterday.

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