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1170 & 1174 East 8th Street, image from Google Maps

Permits Filed: 1170 East 8th Street, Midwood

Gravesend is known for its opulent 21st century mansions, built mostly by Sephardic Jews from Syria in the decreasingly Italian neighborhood in southern Brooklyn. The area most heavily blanketed in huge new homes is the part of Gravesend…

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115 Nassau

New Look: The Beekman, 115 Nassau Street

While 5 Beekman renderings have been released sporadically, with a first look hidden within the depths of a New York Magazine article, YIMBY has a fresh perspective of the development — this time, featuring images that have not been…

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70-32 Queens Boulevard, rendering by Michael Kang

Revealed: 70-32 Queens Boulevard, Elmhurst

As Queens’s Chinese population has sprawled in all directions out of Flushing, developers from the community have followed. Elmhurst and Woodside are the western outpost of the borough’s new mega-Chinatown, and now they’ve got a new 11-story building…

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