Real Estate

28 minutes ago

8 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. The Mortgage Bankers Association of New York hosts a breakfast seminar featuring a distinguished panel discussing the ins and outs of the loan selling process. Club 101, 101 Park Avenue....

28 minutes ago

The City Council approved today a proposed rezoning of the Lower East Side, putting in height limits for new buildings throughout the area. The Bloomberg administration has pushed the rezoning as necessary...

29 minutes ago

Fruits and Veggies. Photo by jet200nyc from the Brownstoner Flickr pool. The Giant Sausage Cometh [Daily Intel] Energy Scammers Pissing Off Park Slopers [GL] City Says Dude Knew Cyclone Could Kill Him...

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The New York Shitty blog has coined this term, defined as thus: "A proliferation of galleries projecting from the front of luxury condominium buildings in gentrifying neighborhoods. While often little...

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Now that the city has given Boerum Hill, Cobble Hill and Brooklyn Heights the finger by re-opening and expanding the House of Detention, pols like David Yassky and William Thompson are fighting back with...

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you know, park slope doesn't really have great subway access, yet somehow people continue to survive. personally i don't see quincy & franklin as the middle of nowhere. it's not that far from the subway...

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On Tuesday, Jonathan Rose Companies broke ground on the first affordable housing and mixed-income apartment building in East Harlem developed to LEED Silver standards. Called Tapestry, the 12-story, 185-unit...

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Yesterday, CB Richard Ellis declared Fifth Avenue the world's most expensive stretch of retail based on the rents merchants have to pay. Today, it's Cushman & Wakefield's turn. From that release: "New...

3 hours ago

The above tumbled out of our Wall Street Journal this morning. (In this week's print Observer, my colleague Eliot Brown has info on the hotel union's burst of political muscle-flexing.)

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For the four Sundays starting November 30, we'll be running an indoor holiday market at the Masonic Temple directly across the street from the Brooklyn Flea, which itself runs through December 21. In...

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Today on the South Slope Reno, the first floor moves ahead by leaps and bounds, including the arrival of the 6-burner Wolf stove! Here are some of the topics posted on The Forum today: Heating and/or...

3 hours ago

One thing about BK Developers: they have a style, a kind of architectural shorthand that announces their work by way of that mini, sort of freestanding gable atop the roof. (Unless someone out there has...

4 hours ago

Well, not just a shop. In addition to selling books, games, kid decor and videos, Nairobi's Knapsack is a "toy and play gallery," where they'll also "host awesome birthday parties and a variety of music...

4 hours ago

This is a bit of an odd one. This stucco house at 225 Marlborough Road (at the corner of Beverley Road) has been used most recently as an office space—and the interior is the worse for it. Since...

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It's a trend. CB Richard Ellis announced this morning that it will join the rush of brokerages vying for the growing advisory business surrounding just what the hell to do with all of these distressed...

5 hours ago

From the Wall Street Journal: "The market for debt used to finance hotels, offices and shopping malls tumbled Tuesday on worries that the long-feared rise in defaults for commercial mortgage-backed...

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There are three penthouses at the Greene House Condos at 383 Carlton Avenue in Fort Greene, and all three of them were bought from the developer for $1,206,000 in late 2005. One of them had an ignominious...

6 hours ago

Now Closed: Trout Swims with the Fishes 102 Smith Street (at Pacific Street) "Boerum Hill’s dumpy oasis, Trout, closed on Sunday... A plan to develop the corner Trout occupied on Smith and Pacific also...

Nov 19, 2008

We were excited to read the interview in The Times last weekend with Andrew Dolkart, a man who has probably done more work to preserve historic Brooklyn neighborhoods than just about anyone in recent years....

Nov 19, 2008

1. COBBLE HILL $2,190,000 127 Congress Street, Unit 1 GMAP (left) 2,300-sf, 3-bed, 2.5-bath duplex unit in a brownstone. In addition to noting that there's a pond in the backyard, its listing said the...

Nov 19, 2008

With all the focus on Gowanus lately, we've neglected Windsor Terrace, which is also being considered for a re-zone. Monday, City Planning Commissioner Amanda Burden started up the public review process...

Nov 19, 2008

What will be the impact of the economic turmoil on Brooklyn schools? Will private schools like Packer, Berkeley Carroll, Friends, Saint Ann's and Poly Prep see high rates of attrition? (We heard that close...

Nov 19, 2008

While it seems no one else is, Barbara Corcoran is still buying in Brooklyn. According to a Page Six item today, Babs has recently bought two multi-family brownstones in the borough. They're probably counting...

Nov 19, 2008

Yep, that's the plan hatched by Borough President Markowitz to get folks to do their holiday shopping close to home. Today, at that retail mecca the Fulton Mall, the Beep, the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce,...