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SHoP Scores First Apartment Building at Atlantic Yards
Back when Frank Gehry got bounced off Bruce Ratner's Atlantic Yards project, the new designs for the Nets' arena, created by Ellerbe Beckett, were said to be so loathed by certain city officials that...
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Is Affordable Housing Gentrifying Brooklyn?
Is the city's public-private affordable housing model—the Community Preservation Corp., a group of 70 banks and insurance companies, in particular—expediting Brooklyn's gentrification? The Gotham...
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Bruce Ratner went on Bloomberg yesterday to discuss the state of the local economy and progress at Atlantic Yards. During the interview, he said he expects to break ground on the first apartment tower...
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Gowanus Canal Grosser Than We Thought
You're welcome, Toll Brothers. The big-time developers fumed, along with the mayor, when the Environmental Protection Agency decided to designate the Gowanus Canal a Superfund site last year. Playing a...
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Park Avenue Lessons for Brooklyn’s Fourth Avenue Changes
Density is intensity. (DCP) For years, planners and politicos have talked about transforming Brooklyn’s dingy Fourth Avenue into the borough’s own version of Park Avenue. That transformation is still...
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Ratner’s Traps: Pest Control and a Pesky Lawsuit
Rats nest. (xbettyx/Flickr) Late last month, a "rat tsunami" descended on Brooklyn, kicking up rodents on the streets surrounding the Atlantic Yards project. Neighbors in Prospect Heights and Fort...
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Bad Math: Three Landlords Arrested for 500 Violations in Two Brooklyn Buildings
Beautiful on the outside... (PropertyShark) There are slumlords and then there are slumlords. Three Brooklyn landlords were arrested yesterday for failing to address a combined 500 open housing code...
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What the Freak! Boardwalk Mainstays Sign Long-Term Leases
Ruby's - will she ever be the same? (NYMag) You can take the freaks out of Coney Island… actually, you can’t. After two years of trying to Disneyfy the boardwalk, city-sanctioned Coney Island operators...
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Discounts Galore! Century 21 May Bring Bargains to Fulton Mall
Shiny new sales. (Brownstoner) If the Fulton Mall is being transformed, it is only so much. The strip is being glammed up, stocked with major national retailers, at the cost of the mom and pops who...
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Skate Shoe Designer SUPRA Expands to BK
Courtesy of Instagram The Southern California-based footwear designer Supra known for their unique skate shoes has inked a deal for a new location in Brooklyn. The footwear designer and retailer will...
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Pinkberry’s Frozen Yogurt Hits Dumbo
Courtesy of NYTimes The purveyor of low-calorie frozen yogurt, Pinkberry, is set to open its second Brooklyn location in Dumbo. Pinkberry will serve its light and tarty yogurt at a 1,000-square-foot...
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Meatball Shop Set to Open on the Upper East Side
Courtesy of Immaculate Infatuation The popular New York-based restaurant chain Meatball Shop is set to open a new location in Manhattan. The new restaurant located at 1462 Second Avenue will become the...
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SL Green, Chinese Government, Follow Hipsters to Williamsburg
First it was the hipsters. Then it was China. And now the city’s largest office landlord, SL Green Realty Corp., is finally seeing promise in the residential development of Williamsburg, Brooklyn....
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Brooklyn Fire: The Borough’s Cultural Renaissance Began a Decade Ago, But in...
The Brooklyn commercial real estate market is on fire. Demand for properties in the borough is at an all-time high, and many neighborhoods in Brooklyn are rivaling some Manhattan neighborhoods in terms...
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McCarren Park Reopens Sans ‘Hipster Lake’
Earlier this year a giant murky puddle at Brooklyn's McCarren Park was being affectionately referred to as “Hipster Lake.” A young boy traverses a flooded McCarren Park (Credit: heresgreenpoint.com)...
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Barclays Center’s First Year, By The Numbers
Jay-Z, rocking Barclays Center during its grand opening one year ago. By most measures, the Barclays Center had a very good year since opening with eight Jay-Z concerts a year ago this Saturday,...
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Brooklyn’s Fulton Street Gets Free Wi-Fi
Residents and visitors strolling along Brooklyn's Fulton Street will have no problem connecting to the internet. In a partnership between the Brooklyn Academy of Music and the Fulton Area Business...
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No Sleep Till Brooklyn
When the Jehovah’s Witnesses began putting its portfolio of 35 buildings on the block in 2004, even the most seasoned real estate observer couldn’t have predicted that one of the winning bidders of a...
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SCG Retail Hires Geoff Bailey From TerraCRG to Grow Brooklyn Presence
SCG Retail has hired Geoff Bailey to expand its Brooklyn retail presence, The Commercial Observer has learned. Mr. Bailey had worked for just over three years at TerraCRG, a Kings County specialist. He...
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Brooklyn Denim Co. Opens Second Location
Brooklyn Denim Co. is opening a new location in Greenpoint. The denim retailer will take a 5,700-square-foot space at 39 Norman Avenue, adding a second shop to the original location at 85 North 3rd...
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