Brooklyn


Bushwick Inlet Park

City to Acquire CitiStorage Site at 5 North 11th Street for Bushwick Inlet Park, Williamsburg

Earlier this year, the city paid $53 million to acquire the property at 1 North 12th Street, located between North 12th and 14th streets along Kent Avenue on the border of Greenpoint and Williamsburg, with plans to convert the site into public park space. The city has now agreed to pay $160 million for the 11-acre CitiStorage site, located between North 10th and 12th streets at 5 North 11th Street, Crain’s reported.



5108 Fourth Avenue

Revealed: Eight-Story, 49-Unit Library-Residential Project Proposed At 5108 Fourth Avenue, Sunset Park

A rendering has been revealed of the proposed eight-story, 49-unit mixed-use project at 5108 Fourth Avenue, located on the corner of 51st Street in Sunset Park. The rendering comes as the project was recently approved by Community Board 7 as part of the city’s Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP), Brooklyn Daily reported. If all approvals are granted, the new building would feature Brooklyn Public Library’s new Sunset Park branch, measuring 21,000 square feet. There would be 49 affordable rental residential units on the floors above, ranging from studios to three-bedrooms.


573 Classon Avenue

Four-Story, Four-Unit Residential Building Planned At 573 Classon Avenue, Clinton Hill

A Brooklyn-based property owner has filed applications for a four-story, four-unit residential project at 573 Classon Avenue, in southern Clinton Hill. The new building will measure 4,488 square feet and its full-floor residential units should average 892 square feet apiece. Based on size, the apartments could either be rentals or condominiums. Pirooz Soltanizadeh’s Jamaica-based Royal Engineering is the applicant of record. The 22-foot-wide, 1,792-square-foot lot is vacant. The Franklin Avenue-Fulton Street stop on the C train and Franklin Avenue Shuttle is around the block.


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