Articles by Rebecca Baird-Remba


78 Hicks Street, image via Google Maps

Permits Filed: 78 Amity Street, Cobble Hill

Fortis Property Group is slowly redeveloping Long Island College Hospital into apartments and an NYU Langone Medical Center, but a smaller project is brewing across the street. Local developer Brandon Hornbeck is demolishing a row of townhouses on Amity and Hicks street to make way for a mixed-use residential building.

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A packed house listens during DCP's meeting on the Bay Street corridor rezoning.

Staten Island’s North Shore Fights Building Heights and Parking for Rezoning on Bay Street

Staten Island has long been the city’s slowest-growing borough, but the administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio is pushing it to develop more housing. Last Wednesday, the Department of City Planning organized a public forum on the mayor’s plan to rezone Bay Street, an industrial swath of Staten Island’s north shore, in order to encourage new apartments and retail.

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