A group has filed a lawsuit in order to halt the Dock Street Dumbo project, alleging that the School Construction Authority didn’t conduct a proper, objective selection process for the site, as required by law. The lawsuit, filed by the DUMBO Neighborhood Foundation, also said that the private developer, Two Trees, and New York City […]
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Markowitz Announces Progress on Gay Center in Brooklyn
Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz took to the steps of Borough Hall to announce that a total of $2 million has been secure to fund Brooklyn’s first gay center, the Brooklyn Community Pride Center.
Effort Underway to Bring Retail to One BBP
The empty retail space at One Brooklyn Bridge Park (360 Furman Street), the former Watchtower building that has been converted to luxury condos, will soon be filled if the efforts of RAL Companies and Affiliates, who are charged with marketing the space, are successful. The Real Deal: More than two years have passed since developer […]
Internal E-mails Say Dock Street Bad Site for School
Newly released documents reveal that Department of Education architects felt that Two Trees’ controversial Dock Street DUMBO project “would yield a very small school (compromised from our standards) with premium costs due to the mixed use with the high-rise residential building.” However, the two-year-old internal e-mails do not address the current plans for the site, […]
Action at 20 Henry Street
A BHB tipster sends in this photo taken this morning at 20 Henry Street. Construction has been halted at the site and a giant hole in the roof was recently repaired. We’re looking into this developing story. Anyone have details?
Brownstoner: Price Cuts at One BBP
Brownstoner writes today about price reductions at One Brooklyn Bridge Park (aka 360 Furman): Brownstoner: On the heels of the news that the developer of One Brooklyn Bridge Park has started renting out a small portion of the 300 or so units that remain vacant comes word of price reductions at 15 apartments in the […]
Yassky upsetsky on stalled buildings
We got the following email from Councilman Yassky’s community liaison, Rami Metal, today. If you want more information or have questions, call the Councilman’s office at 718-875-5200, x14 for Metal. The full letter is attached as a pdf here. In response to the Department of Building’s recent publication of all the stalled construction sites in […]
Reconsidering —again — 72 Poplar
Owners behind the 72 Poplar Street conversion project have been sent back to the drawing board once again. Last week, the Landmarks Preservation Commission “strongly recommended” that the owners behind a plan to convert the former precinct house into a rental building rethink their designs. “The commissioners felt that the addition was too big and […]
1-800-MATTRESS Out
The brick-and-mortar outposts of the 1800Matress.com company are closing down nationwide after the company filed for bankruptcy in March, now marking yet another vacant storefront on Montague Street. Sleepy’s then acquired the telephone and Web properties of Dial-a-Mattress in a $25-million deal, but shuttered its remaining 20 showrooms, according to a Montague Street Sleepy’s salesman […]
No parking at Riverside Garage?
Updated Thursday at 4:50 pm BHB just got word that the state Division of Housing & Community Renewal has rejected the landlord’s proposal to build a garage at the Riverside Apartments at the westernmost end of Joralemon Street. Ken Fisher, the attorney for landlord Pinnacle Group, told BHB, “While we are disappointed, this is only […]
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