North 11th Street in Williamsburg, right below McCarren Park, has been mostly filled out, with residential buildings rising throughout the 2000s. And now comes a permit filing for one of the last pieces of the…
Last December, DOB permits were filed for a new seven-story apartment building at 305 Union Avenue, between South First and Second Streets in Williamsburg. Now, YIMBY has the first renderings of the project, dubbed “EcoRise Union Avenue.” The 17-unit building will…
In the past, developers in Williamsburg have stuck to apartments, trying to cram as many studios and one- and two-bedrooms as possible into their zoning allotments, trying to capitalize on the influx of millennials seeking rental housing. But…
Williamsburg’s trendy Northside is jam-packed with some of the most unattractive structures of any close-in New York City neighborhood, with the simple-but-handsome faces of the area’s 19th century wood-frame homes disfigured decades ago by tacky vinyl paneling….
Eighth Avenue has long been a main commercial street in Sunset Park, with its storefronts supplying the surrounding residential sidestreets with local retail. But in recent decades, it’s become the main drag for one of New York City’s two…
