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…
Last week, a permit was filed for a major alteration to 175 Richardson Street, just below the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, between Humboldt Street and Graham Avenue. The plan is to turn the 20-foot-wide, two-story commercial structure into…
There it sits, the northern portion of the deactivated Rockaway Beach Branch rail line, a 3.5 mile-long right-of-way in central and southern Queens that last saw passenger service in 1962. One MTA board member described…
550 Washington Street [DNAinfo New York]: Developer Atlas Capital Group proposed plans “to buy 250,000 square feet of air rights from Pier 40 for $100 million” and to vertically expand the four-story St. John’s Terminal building, located at 550…
Earlier this year, Bowery Boogie connected the dots regarding some recent land and air rights sales at the corner of East Houston and Orchard Street, on the block housing the famous Katz’s Deli. They speculated that Ben…
