Real Estate

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We like the look and feel of this one-bedroom mini-loft at 75 Livingston Street in Brooklyn Heights. There's lots of natural light and the open-plan living area feels quite spacious; as a bonus, you get...

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This one might not make the police blotter reports but a basil thief is upsetting the equilibrium on one block of Carroll Gardens. According to Lost City, someone has been stealing basil from a planter...

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This just in from a reader...there's been another crash on Waverly Avenue in Clinton Hill, this time at the corner of Dekalb. (There was another crash at the corner of Willoughby last month.) "Cars continue...

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After moving along at a snail's pace (due largely, we can only assume, to environmental concerns) the demolition of the Con Ed plant on Kent Avenue in South Williamsburg surged towards the finish line...

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A fraud ring involving 13 people and potentially $100 million of losses was charged yesterday by the Manhattan District Attorney. Much of the illegal activity occurred over the past four years in the East...

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For the last 15 years, Jonathan Miller has produced the Prudential Douglas Elliman sales reports that hold the New York real estate world in thrall. Thursday, for the first time, he released a rental report....

Jul 7, 2009

The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission has approved a plan to replace St. Vincent's Hospital with residential towers and townhouses.

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Before a infrastructure project big enough to "significantly affect the quality of the human environment" can be undertaken, both Federal and State law require the preparation of an Environmental Impact...

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After at least a couple of years sitting vacant, the former Blockbuster store at 288 Court Street has a new tenant, and it's one likely to put a smile on the faces of Carroll Gardeners: According to a...

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Ten months ago we wrote a post saying that we had it on pretty good authority that Whole Foods was never going to happen in Gowanus. Yesterday, the blog Brooklyn the Borough reported—and the Brooklyn...

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Paterson Picks M.T.A. Figure as His No. 2 [NY Times] Pedestrian Plazas Generating Dough for City [NY Times] Cities Lose Out on Road Funds From Stimulus [NY Times] Crown Heights Butt-Slapper Apprehended...

Jul 9, 2009

If there was any doubt that we have entered the age of schadenfreude -- I-bankers carrying boxes down Wall Street, real estate brokers begging for buyers, A-Rod getting stuck with Kate Hudson the way he...

Jul 9, 2009

New rent stats suggest that doorman buildings are starting to go out of fashion for the masses as Manhattanites seek to cut back on expenses—even if it means having to hoof their own packages upstairs. The...

Jul 9, 2009

Will the dangling of city money be enough to get stalled condo projects moving again? Perhaps. The city is launching a $20 million initiative to restart stalled condo projects, turning some of the unfinished...

Jul 9, 2009

Michael Hirtenstein, a connoisseur of glitzy and enormous real estate, has one less mega-property to worry about. According to the listing for 23 Gramercy Park South, the former telecom mogul is in contract...

Jul 8, 2009

Photo by Kilgub from the Brownstoner Flickr Pool. Rancid Chicken at the Fulton Met [Brooklynian] NPR Looks at Recession's Impact on AY [DDDB] Neverland Ranch Kiddie Ride At Coney Island [Kinetic Carnival] India...

Jul 8, 2009

Jul 8, 2009

There's been a Partial Stop Work Order in place at 773 Kent Avenue at the corner of Flushing for the past weeks due to a problem with excavation safety. Up to that point, though, work had been progressing...

Jul 8, 2009

Athom Cafe opened a few weeks ago but its presence at 1096 Broadway in Bushwick makes it newsworthy enough to mention even at this point; as BushwickBK put it, "Bodegas and 99-cent stores come a dime...

Jul 8, 2009

When 448 6th Street hit the market with Brown Harris Stevens last October we drooled over its interiors and unusual facade but wondered whether the asking price of $2,825,000. It turns out it was. By...

Jul 8, 2009

This place has been bouncing on and off the foreclosure list for much of the past two years (in fact, we highlighted it back in February), so don't get your hopes up that it'll actually come up for sale...

Jul 8, 2009

You may want to avoid the Manhattan Bridge for the next few hours—according to a tipster, there's a large truck fire on the Manhattan side. Update: According to Gothamist, it's a tractor-trailer that...

Jul 8, 2009