Brighton Beach

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…

The days of the bungalows and wood-frame houses of Brighton Beach, in the blocks above the elevated line near the end of Brooklyn, are numbered. The neighborhood has the distinction of being one of only a handful of…