Condos in the trendier parts of Williamsburg sell for upwards of $1,000 per square foot, compared to the $400 or so you can get in the Hasidic part, in South Williamsburg. Given the massive chasm in…
Last week, YIMBY brought you news that the New York City Hotel and Hotel Trades Council’s Employee Benefit Funds’s architect had filed plans to build a 12-story office and medical center in downtown Brooklyn, on a parking…
After decades of abandonment and disinvestment after World War II, and a few more of gradual recovery, the Bronx is finally in what looks to be the early stages of a full-blown real estate renaissance. YIMBY’s covered the…
For nearly half a century starting in 1961, the northernmost block and a half between Columbia Street and the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway in Cobble Hill were “zoned out,” so to speak, from residential use. Since before World…
During Michael Bloomberg’s last few weeks as mayor, the City Council adopted the Rheingold Brewery rezoning, which opened up half a dozen blocks in the southern part of Bushwick up to residential development. Now, plans…
