Update: YIMBY has since learned that the design posted below has since been swapped out for one by Dattner Architects, for which renderings are not yet available. On the other side of Brooklyn from the…
In most of America’s largest cities, post-war public housing towers have been torn down and replaced with more urban designs. New York City is the exception – whether because of the relatively good condition of…
In 2005, old timers in the neighborhood and the Department of City Planning, led by Amanda Burden, tried desperately to stamp out development in Bay Ridge. Virtually the entire neighborhood was downzoned, arresting the natural…
What’s the one way to build a 200,000-square-foot building in northwestern Brooklyn without the NIMBYs even noticing? Make it a Hasidic school! On Wednesday, permits were filed for a five-story (plus cellar) new school at 401…
Density along the southern end of the High Line is fairly limited by zoning, but one developer found a creative way around that: buy land on either side and connect two buildings, with the shadowed structure underneath…
