Owner/Designer Creates 2-family That is Easily Converted to 1-Family
By Linda Collins
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — An award-winning Brooklyn Heights home whose renovations have been so extensive it is basically a brand new house, is on the market.
The property, at 28 Middagh St. in North Heights, received the Brooklyn Heights Association’s 2006 Award for Architectural Excellence and was on the association’s home tour that year.
The four-story home has an asking price of $4.2 million, according to Gabriel Ford, a broker with
DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — The ride in a hoist up 51 floors was a new experience for this reporter. But it was a necessity, if one wanted to experience the full tour on Wednesday offered by The Clarett Group of its 51-story Brooklyner at 111 Lawrence St. in Downtown Brooklyn.
The view from the roof was certainly worth the trip.
In the near future, that rooftop — in addition to a three-bedroom penthouse renting at
Search for Amusement Park
Operator Is Next on Agenda
CONEY ISLAND – Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s announcement that the city signed a contract with Thor Equities to acquire 6.9-acres in Coney Island for $95.6 million was met with enthusiasm Thursday.
Next on the agenda for the city is issuing a Request for Proposals for a professional amusement park operator. While it will be owned by the city itself, a dedicated part of the site will be leased to an amusement developer beginning in summer
Completion Anticipated for Spring, Sales to Resume in February
By Linda Collins
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — The unfinished residential development at 189 Schermerhorn St. in Downtown Brooklyn has new investors and a spring completion is now anticipated.
Jamestown Properties, an Atlanta-and Cologne, Germany-based real estate investment firm, has purchased the mortgage for “Be@Schermerhorn,” called that by its developers Louis Greco and Mario Procida of SDS Procida Development.
“It was a $100 million commitment,” Michael Phillips, creative and marketing director for Jamestown
SUNSET PARK – The Sunset Park Rezoning Plan recently approved by the City Council has been hailed by its many supporters as putting a brake on over-development and preserving the neighborhood’s
A Downtown Brooklyn hotel is one of five city projects to receive stimulus funding through the NYC Capital Resource Corporation. First reported yesterday in the New York Times, the hotel — planned for the Pepper & Potter car dealership property {read more...}
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — The number of hands raised in response to a question about 2010 at Tuesday’s Brooklyn Real Estate Roundtable showed that the majority are hopeful that 2010 will be a better year than 2009.
Only a few believe it will be worse and a significant number said it would be “flat,” in response to outgoing Steering Committee Chair David Kramer’s question.
Kramer was speaking at the Roundtable luncheon Tuesday at the
EAST NEW YORK — A groundbreaking took place last week in East New York for the Liberty Apartments, a project of the Cypress Hills Local Development Corp. in partnership with Dunn Development Corp.
Joining in the festivities were Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz and representatives of the Cypress Hills LDC, Dunn Development and Moen.
The development, comprised of 43 affordable studios, one-, two- and three-bedrooon rental apartments on Liberty Avenue between Fountain Avenue and Crystal Street,
BROOKLYN — U.S. Rep. Edolphus “Ed” Towns in an e-mail yesterday praised the recent actions by Congress to pass H.R. 3548, the Worker, Homeownership and Business Assistance Act of 2009, which passed the U.S. House of Representatives by a vote {read more...}
DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN —The speakers have been confirmed for the upcoming Caribbean American Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CACCI) Monthly Power Breakfast on Thursday, Nov. 12, at Brooklyn Borough Hall.
As previously reported, the program will focus on opportunities for small
CITY HALL — City Council members and veterans groups are demanding that housing preference be given to returning veterans.
Speaker Christine Quinn, Council Member Gale Brewer and the council’s Veterans Committee chair, James Sanders Jr., yesterday announced a resolution calling on the state legislature to give priority admission in Mitchell-Lama housing developments to veterans of the Iraq, Afghanistan and Gulf wars, as well as to their widows and widowers, and to widowers of Vietnam-era veterans.
Brooklyn Group Included Among NYC Recipients; Will be Recognized Nov. 13
By Linda Collins
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
EAST NEW YORK — The Cypress Hills Local Development Corporation, an affordable housing developer based in East New York, Brooklyn, is one of 56 winners
BROOKLYN — Pratt Area Community Council (PACC) has planned a Homeowner and Homebuyer Fair on Tuesday, Nov. 10, at Concord Baptist Church of Christ in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
“The Fair we hosted earlier this year was so successful,
Callling it a major victory for tenants across the city, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn praised Justice Eileen A. Rakower of the NYS Supreme Court for upholding the Safe Housing Act against legal challenge by a landlord.
DUMBO — P.S. Bookshop, a popular DUMBO retail store, is moving to larger quarters just a few blocks away.
Its primary reason for moving is to have a longer lease term, according to Suzanne Schwimmer, of Schwimmer Realty, who handled the transaction.
Schwimmer reports that P.S. Bookshop has signed a 10-year, two-month lease with Two Trees Management for the 2,138-square-foot corner retail space in the building at 70 Washington St. Its address will be 76 Washington, she said.
