Articles by Stephen Smith




767 Bergen Street, rendering by InFocus

Revealed: 767 Bergen Street, Crown Heights

Lot by lot, northwestern Crown Heights – or at least, the parts that are zoned for housing – is slowly being filled in, as the neighborhood continues its rapid transformation from marginal area on brownstone Brooklyn’s gentrifying fringe,…

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97-30 64th Avenue, image from Google Maps

Permits Filed: 97-30 64th Avenue, Rego Park

During the 1930s and ’40s, Rego Park and other central Queens neighborhoods were the site of frenzied speculative residential construction, as private, market-rate builders sought to meet some of the massive demand for new apartments in…

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