The latest edition to Brooklyn Heights, 73 Pineapple Street, is now just about all bricked up, a long way from our photo in September. What do you think?
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Love Lane Mews: Gordon Gekko Meets Mary Poppins
The Wall Street Journal recently caught up with Love Lane Mews architect Stephen B. Jacobs. The takeaway — the new condos there will be “supercalafragalisticexpialadoshus” meets “greed is good”:
Brooklyn Bridge Park to Hold Public Hearings on Alternatives to Housing
This in from Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation: Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Committee on Alternatives to Housing, with the assistance of Bay Area Economics Consulting, is conducting two public hearings to solicit comments from the public on alternative sources that could be relied upon to finance the on-going operations of the park in lieu of revenues from […]
St. Ann’s Gets “Conditional” Nod for Tobacco Warehouse
There was no surprise at this afternoon’s meeting of the Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation’s board of directors. After a presentation by the Corporation’s president, Regina Myer, that duplicated the one she gave at the community meeting on Monday, and after her briefly summarizing the comments made at that meeting, which she described as being split […]
Tobacco Warehouse Meeting Marked by Controversy
Yesterday evening’s community meeting at Borough Hall concerning the proposals for adaptive use of the Tobacco Warehouse in DUMBO exposed a rift between arts organizations, which favor allowing such use, and community activists, who mostly want to keep the structure as is. It began with a presentation by Regina Myer, President of the Brooklyn Bridge […]
Community Meeting on Tobacco Warehouse This Afternoon
Reader Montragrue sends us this: Community Meeting to review Tobacco Warehouse RFP Responses; Monday, November 15 at 4:00 pm; Brooklyn Borough Hall, Courtroom. Please RSVP to Elizabeth Ernish at eernish@brooklynbp.nyc.gov or (718) 802-3893. This meeting is open to the public. The Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation has requested proposals for use or development of the Tobacco […]
Sleepy’s Construction Moving Along
The expansion of 116 Montague Street is moving along. Two of the proposed three additional floors have been erected. Brownstoner adds that according to permits filed with the city, six residential units are planned for the structure.
“Magic” Johnson: Savior of 20 Henry?
According to this Brooklyn Daily Eagle article, it’s reported that a joint real estate venture in which basketball great Earvin “Magic” Johnson is a major participant, acting through a real estate investment service firm, has closed on a deal to take out troubled insurance giant AIG’s equity interest in the former Peak’s Mason Mint factory […]
Committee to Consider Alternatives to Housing in Park Wednesday
The Cobble Hill Association alerts us to a meeting to be held at City Hall (Manhattan) in the Blue Room, starting at approximately 11:00 a.m. this Wednesday, September 22, at which the Brooklyn Bridge Park Development Corporation’s Committee on Alternatives to Housing will consider possible sources of funding for the Park other than the construction […]
Eagle: 101 Clinton Flipping Some Units Residential
The Brooklyn Eagle notes that 101 Clinton Street (aka 165 Joralemon Street), following the example of nearby 75 Clinton, will be flipping some units from commercial to residential: Brooklyn Eagle: With Eagle staffers and other passersby noting that the building is ”scaffolded and shrouded” (with netting), a check of Department of Buildings (DOB) documents was […]
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