In a marked departure from original plans, City Point, the glass-clad, multi-use complex that was to be downtown Brooklyn’s own Time Warner Center, will now be built in two phases, according to sources familiar with the developer’s intentions.
The developer plans to build the first phase at the east end of Fulton Mall, on the Read More
Rupert Murdoch will consolidate some of the offices of his weekly newspaper chain into one 18,000-square-foot space in Bruce Ratner’s One Metrotech Center, the 24-story Class A building at 70 Myrtle Avenue, according to an annoucement released this morning.
The group of newspapers, called, appropriately enough, the Community Newspaper Group, includes the Bronx Times Reporter, Read More
From Curbed: "So, on to the stats assembled by Ideal Properties Group LLC about tenants who moved to (or within) Downtown Brooklyn (so-called) during the Q3 2008. For starters, their average age is 29.5 years, which is suspiciously short of the Big Three Zero. Also 83 per cent do not rent alone–they have Read More
After receiving community pressure last year after it wanted to raze some Brooklyn houses that may or may not have been part of the Underground Railroad, the city has announced the outline of a $2 million commemoration of abolitionist efforts in Brooklyn.
The result, a year after the city announced the $2 million commitment, Read More
"I worked in downtown Brooklyn for many years and am now retired. I had a few errands to do there this week and, after having been away for months, I noticed for the first time how genuinely unpleasant an area it is. Metrotech is a small oasis of green with one OK lunch choice, but Read More
Boar’s Head — purveyor of all manner of sliced deli meats — will open an experimental retail shop on Court Street in downtown Brooklyn, according to an article on BrooklynPaper.com.
Boar’s Head will use the so-called "F. Martinella delicatessen," to be opened at the end of this month near State Street, as a laboratory Read More
Citing sanitary concerns, the Metrotech BID has barred dogs from frolicking on the Metrotech Commons, depriving Downtown Brooklyn pooches access to one of their favorite pieces of real estate, reports The Brooklyn Paper.
“[We are] certainly willing to have people sit there on a blanket — that’s not prohibited — but it conflicts Read More
The intrepid condo buyers who took a gamble on a modestly priced spread in Brooklyn Heights in April 2007 probably had no idea that they would be living in the borough’s most expensive neighborhood for condos a year later.
The average condo price increased 170 percent annually, from $613,750 to $1.65 million in April Read More
A venture of Acadia Realty Trust, MacFarlane Partners, Rose Associates, P/A Associates and Washington Square Partners seems to be moving forward with the redevelopment of Albee Square into the City Point development, with plans to build a 65-story, Greenberg Farrow-designed mixed-use tower in Brooklyn, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle writes today.
As this Read More
The city has changed its plan for downtown Brooklyn to eliminate the need to take a home on Duffield Street that had some connection to the Underground Railroad.
A spokeswoman for the city Law Department, Kate O’Brien Ahlers said in a statement,
"The city is pleased that this litigation was resolved in a Read More
