Through a combination of history and privilege, Brooklyn Heights has ensconced itself in a near complete NIMBY shield. The bulk of the neighborhood, the residential part, became one of the city’s first historic districts in 1965, just…
Earlier today, an application was filed with the Department of Buildings for a new seven-story mixed-use building at 42-76 Main Street, south of downtown Flushing, in Queens. The site is currently home to the Good Fortune…
The northern neighborhoods of the Bronx are normally the sole province of market-rate builders, with developers building subsidized housing preferring the large, liberally zoned lots of the South Bronx. But if a large enough chunk of land presents…
500 Metropolitan Avenue [Curbed]: Possible renderings have surfaced of Meyer Chetrit’s planned 14-story mixed-use building — containing 188 hotel rooms, and 59 apartments — at the currently vacant lot of 500 Metropolitan Avenue, in Williamsburg. Kutnicki Bernstein…
BROOKLYN: 18 Bay 17th Street: Applications for Win Wind Realty Development’s planned four-story, five-unit mixed-use building at 18 Bay 17th Street, in Bath Beach, are proceeding. Originally filed in 2014, Chi F. Lau is designing the 6,417 square-foot…
