Another day, another new building permit filing in East Williamsburg. Today’s permit application comes for 246 Johnson Avenue, at the corner of Bushwick Place, near the Montrose L stop. There, developer Moshe Silberstein (operating under…
In the past, developers in Williamsburg have stuck to apartments, trying to cram as many studios and one- and two-bedrooms as possible into their zoning allotments, trying to capitalize on the influx of millennials seeking rental housing. But…
Williamsburg’s trendy Northside is jam-packed with some of the most unattractive structures of any close-in New York City neighborhood, with the simple-but-handsome faces of the area’s 19th century wood-frame homes disfigured decades ago by tacky vinyl paneling….
Condos in the trendier parts of Williamsburg sell for upwards of $1,000 per square foot, compared to the $400 or so you can get in the Hasidic part, in South Williamsburg. Given the massive chasm in…
The Jamaica Line in Brooklyn is buzzing with construction, as northern Brooklyn’s developers venture outside of the familiar L train territory to start building along the J, from Williamsburg through Bushwick. The most prominent project is…