With demand for storing humans in New York far outpacing demand for storing cars, parking garages throughout Manhattan are being converted into dwellings. One such project is located at 24 Leonard Street, between West Broadway and…
Through a combination of history and privilege, Brooklyn Heights has ensconced itself in a near complete NIMBY shield. The bulk of the neighborhood, the residential part, became one of the city’s first historic districts in 1965, just…
Earlier today, an application was filed with the Department of Buildings for a new seven-story mixed-use building at 42-76 Main Street, south of downtown Flushing, in Queens. The site is currently home to the Good Fortune…
The northern neighborhoods of the Bronx are normally the sole province of market-rate builders, with developers building subsidized housing preferring the large, liberally zoned lots of the South Bronx. But if a large enough chunk of land presents…
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…
