The Afternoon Wrap: Tuesday

  • Glorious 2007 will bring us Brooklyn’s first gated community. Hoorah! Mill Harbor Waterview Residences (pictured above) will be a nine-building complex of 1-to-3-bedroom condos for between $400,000 and $700,000. The creepy community will even get a pool, patio, Jacuzzi, and “clubhouse.” [Multi-Housing News]
  • The juicy year-end recaps are still coming, and The Real Read More

  • Monday: Crazy Gravesend Jews and Insane Park Views

  • Brooklyn’s most expensive house (it’s in Gravesend, of course) is annihilated to make way for a 10,400-square-foot mansion. There are more multimillion-dollar teardowns to come, though thankfully some of the neighborhood’s “signature” orange roofs (?) will be maintained. The explanation for all this? Residents just “want to be close to the synagogues.” (The New Read More