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…
On the eastern side of Kent Avenue just north of the Williamsburg Bridge, 333 Kent Avenue attracted attention several years ago when Brownstoner reported the existing mansion sold for $5 million in early 2012. When the building…
Throughout the 20th century, the main form of development in Brooklyn has been redevelopment, with developers razing single-family homes and small walk-up apartments to erect larger multifamily buildings. That process was severely curtailed with the 1961 zoning…
East New York has been slated for Bill de Blasio’s first major rezoning, intended to make room for more affordable housing and – more speculatively, given that demand is not yet high enough to warrant…
The bulldozers took a half-century breather in Flatbush, deterred from razing the neighborhood’s deep reservoir of single-family detached Victorian-style homes by the 1961 zoning code and the city’s decades-long descent into crime and despair. But the neighborhood’s…
