500 Metropolitan Avenue [Curbed]: Possible renderings have surfaced of Meyer Chetrit’s planned 14-story mixed-use building — containing 188 hotel rooms, and 59 apartments — at the currently vacant lot of 500 Metropolitan Avenue, in Williamsburg. Kutnicki Bernstein…
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…
BROOKLYN: 951 Grand Street: Originally filed in 2013, new applications have revived an LLC’s plans for a four-story, seven-unit building measuring 5,900 square feet at the vacant lot of 951 Grand Street, in East Williamsburg. The…
Some of the trendiest parts of Brooklyn are filled with single-story brick warehouses, prevented from residential encroachment by manufacturing zones (actually a bit of a misnomer, since there is little to no actual manufacturing going…