Brooklyn Heights resident & “Noticing New York” blogger Michael White weighs in Sunday on all the latest regarding the potential closure of the Brooklyn Heights Public Library’s Cadman Plaza branch. In his post titled “The Petition To Save The Libraries Is Working: Confirming Petition Points BPL Head Linda Johnson, Library Officials Trip Up Defending Plans,” […]
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White Carriage House @ 165 Columbia Heights Being Restored To Original Brownstone Brick
Landmarks has approved restoration of a beauty of a carriage house at 165 Columbia Heights, which currently is adorned in white stucco. Curbed reports that the former Jehovah’s Witness property, which sold last year for $4.1 million, will be stripped of the facade—added in 1932—to restore the brownstone brick underneath. Ann Krsul is the architect […]
New Condo Development 30 Henry Gets A Roofie
Before the snow came down last weekend, builders installed a new plywood roof over the pit at 30 Henry Street. Blog McBrooklyn offers an aerial view of the former Brooklyn Eagle building. DUMBO-based developer Fortis Manor purchased the homely one-story building at 30 Henry & Middagh in November 2011 for $3.5 million—$500K over its asking […]
20 Henry Street: 38 Sold, 3 Remain In New Condo Development
Two among this week’s top five residential sales in Brooklyn are awarded to the new condo development at 20 Henry Street, which hit the market last February after years of delays & drama. Asking prices at the former Peaks Mason Mints building (known as the Candy Factory) ranged between $450,000 and $2.56 million, comprising studios […]
Bruce Ratner Shaves Off $7.8M From Pierrepont Street Office Assessment
The NYC Tax Commission has shaved $7.8 million from the assessed value of the Brooklyn Heights office building at 135 Pierrepont Street, owned by developer Bruce Ratner. His firm Forest City Ratner requested a reassessment, according to city records, resulting in a tax bill drop of $802,000 a year over five years, reports the New […]
148 Hicks Street: Front Room For $3.50 A Week (In 1902)
Earlier this month, we shared CWB Architects’ photos of its interior reno at 146 Hicks Street, after 2011′s Hurricane Irene hurled a mature elm from Mansion House into the two adjoining townhomes at 146 & 148 Hicks Street. Now it’s time to give a little love to the equally lovely wood clapboard residence at 148 […]
Up Up & Away: Hallmark Store Demo Begins For Montague Street Condo Highrise
Seven months after Irish pub & restaurant Eamonn’s In Brooklyn and the Hallmark store next door at 172-174 Montague Street were shut down, gutting has begun on the two-story commercial building for what is destined to be a highrise condo development. Workers were hauling away a mass of mess inside Hallmark on Monday; Eamonn’s meanwhile, […]
MNS Report Reveals Brooklyn Heights’ Lofty Rental Market—Behind W’burg And DUMBO
A December 2012 Brooklyn Rental Market Report from MNS reveals that apartments have become so expensive in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, that they’re pushing folks back to Manhattan—to such neighborhoods as the Financial District, the Upper East Side east of Third Avenue and Harlem. In Brooklyn Heights, meanwhile, the average studio rental came in at $1,973, fourth […]
36 Orange Street: Yours For A Mere $14,000 A Month
We were taken aback when a two-story carriage house at 21 Grace Court Alley was listed for rent in September for $11,500 a month ($138,000 a year). That opinion is apparently mutual: It remains on the market. But that’s peanuts compared with the Brooklyn Heights townhouse at 36 Orange Street that’s just been listed with […]
With Scaffolding Down, 55 Pierrepont Street At Last Sees The Light
The handsome building at 55 Pierrepont Street (which has quite a storied past: whores! gays!) is again seeing the light, as the scaffolding that has shrouded it for more than two years (a building worker confirms) at last has come down. In addition to (senior) residential, the 17-story building houses the Brooklyn Heights Association, Brooklyn […]
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