Flushing Mall at 133-15 39th Avenue, with one of the neighborhood’s bustling food courts, had been on its last legs for years, ever since it was reported to be closing in 2011 to make way for parking for Flushing…
The East Williamsburg waterfront remains an industrial wasteland, so it should come as no surprise that at least one architect is imagining the neighborhood with a better and brighter future. As part of a design competition, Avoid…
The block of West 132nd Street between Fifth Avenue and Malcolm X Boulevard, like many in Harlem, has a few holes in it, left behind from the city’s dark years of abandonment. One by one, however,…
Up until the 1960s, before urban decline set in and the 1961 zoning code severely restricted densities throughout all of the city, Ocean Avenue was the center of a great building boom in Brooklyn, as single-family…
Brooklyn Strand [Curbed]: WXY Architecture has revealed renderings of the Brooklyn Strand, “a 21-acre greenway connecting the waterfront to the courthouses to Columbus Park,” in Downtown Brooklyn. The park project is “still in the planning stages.” 3735…
