In 2009, a handful of blocks in Forest Hills – between Queens Boulevard and Austin Street, Yellowstone Boulevard and 72nd Road – were upzoned, to allow higher residential densities in the commercial core of one of…
In a twelve-step program, admitting you have a problem is the first step on the road to recovery. So, too, for the MTA, and its addiction to high costs, with each of its rail tunneling projects much more…
Today was a busy day for filings on Bed-Stuy’s gentrifying fringe. First, there was an application submitted for a 32-unit building at 1325 Herkimer Street, nearly at Broadway Junction. Later, an application showed up at…
Last month, YIMBY wrote about a permit filing for a 22-unit market-rate residential building at 2288 Atlantic Avenue, in Brownsville near Broadway Junction – as sure a sign as any that gentrification is nearing Brooklyn’s…
Last year, YIMBY found a rendering for a 16-story cantilevered structure at 308 East 59th Street, just to the east of one of the approaches to the Queensboro Bridge. That project didn’t pan out, but a…
