The Brooklyn Public Library has received seven responses to its Request For Proposals to construct a new Brooklyn Heights Branch Library, to be incorporated in a larger commercial or residential structure. Most of the proposals would provide 20,000 square feet of library space; Proposal A’s library would have 31,192 square feet, and Proposal E’s 30,000. […]
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High Rise for Remsen?
The Eagle reports that “[a]n LLC formed by Upper West Side-based Quinlan Development Group” has acquired three adjoining buildings on Remsen Street between Clinton and Court: numbers 153, 155, and 157 Remsen (see photo), in a series of transactions for a total of $13.89 million. One of the buildings, 153 Remsen, former home of Saigon […]
Corcoran Out; Kiehl’s In On Montague Street In Brooklyn Heights
Skin-care giant Kiehl‘s will be opening its first Brooklyn store at 124 Montague St., the current site of The Corcoran Group. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle reports: Kiehl’s shop will be 1,200 square feet in size, with its front door located where Corcoran’s is now, on a diagonal right on the Montague and Henry corner of […]
Eagle: Developers Licking Their Chops Over Brooklyn Heights Library
After the Brooklyn Public Library issued an RFP in June for development of the Brooklyn Heights branch location, they were flooded with responses, the Brooklyn Eagle reports. This comes on the heels of yesterday’s NYC Council Select Committee on Libraries Oversight hearing. Councilmembers Steve Levin and Letitia James were on hand. Brooklyn Eagle: “We were […]
City Council Hearing on Libraries Monday
This in from City Council Member Steve Levin’s office: On Monday, September 30th, the City Council’s Committee on Cultural Affairs, Libraries and International Intergroup Relations will hold an oversight hearing on capital construction needs and the potential disposal of libraries in New York City. While this hearing is not exclusive to the proposals for Brooklyn […]
Read What People Think Of The Changing Retail Landscape Of Downtown Brooklyn
The New York Times writes about the changing retail landscape of Downtown Brooklyn. As outlets like Shake Shack and H&M set up shop on Fulton Street, the older businesses which long catered to African-American and Caribbean-American customers are starting to disappear. The Times describes the history of the strip saying, “Fulton Street has been Brooklyn’s […]
Poplar Street Precinct Condos To Go On Sale This Fall, Targets “Urban Hipsters” [Video]
Our man with a cam Karl Junkersfeld ponders the meaning of condos going on sale at the renovated 72 Poplar Street Precinct in Brooklyn Heights in his latest video. The 72 Poplar website is now live. Curbed reported yesterday that units will go on sale this fall: Designed, by Freyer Architects, the 14 units will […]
Karl on 177 Montague and Neighboring Brooklyn Heights Architecture
Mr. J. has put together an impressive video presentation (after the jump) focusing on the Brooklyn Trust Building, now occupied by Chase Bank, the upper floors of which are being converted for residential use. He then gives us a tour of some neighboring architectural gems, including the Brooklyn Historical Society, St. Ann and the Holy […]
Pier House Construction Underway
Reader Andrew Porter has been keeping an eye, and a camera lens, on construction activity at the site of Pier House, the hotel/retail/condo complex that will sit between Furman Street and Pier 1. The pedestrian bridge connecting Squibb Park and the uplands of Pier 1, which will eventually be between two sections of Pier House, […]
#SaveLICH: Suitors’ Plans Revealed
Update: Word has come via #SaveLICH that SUNY is now removing all patients from LICH and intends to padlock the hospital over the weekend. Protesters have gathered at Hicks and Pacific; Bill de Blasio and Steve Levin are there. The SUNY Downstate website now includes a summary of the seven suitors’ proposals for Long Island […]
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