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The lack of affordable industrial space in some sections of Brooklyn is impeding one local business's expansion. Brooklyn Brewery owner Steve Hindy, who started leasing a property on North 11th Street in Williamsburg 12 years ago, tells the Times that
A few weeks ago a reader told us that the iron gate outside her Crown Heights house had been stolen, and this weekend the Times has a piece on how the same crime happened recently in Clinton Hill. Gates were
While plenty of parents of St. Ann's students have expressed their opinion about the impending relocation of a Federal probation center to a building in which the school leases space and which abuts its lower and middle schools, there had
A $17.3 million renovation of the Strand Theater on Fulton Street will result in new facilities for cultural organizations Bric Arts and Urban Glass. The Economic Development Corp. and Dept. of Cultural Affairs are overseeing the revamp, which will be
Adams Street between Willoughby and Tillary has a notoriously bad track record in terms of illegal parking and bicycle lane infringement (as the two posts we've done on it attest). So we were happy to see some incremental improvement as
This three-unit brownstone condo at 83 Halsey Street in Bedford Stuyvesant just hit the market last week. There are three units, two 725-square-footers priced at $425,000 and on 971-square-foot place priced at $550,000. It's a beautiful building from the outside
The GOTD submissions keep rolling in...We bought our place in 2004 and have been DIY renovating ever since. The garden is one of the first things we tackled as we wanted to get everything in and out through the house
ManhattanUPPER EAST SIDE $460,000405 E. 63rd St.Junior one-bedroom, one-bath co-op, 550 square feet, with renovated kitchen and renovated bath; building features doorman, roof deck, laundry and live-in super. Maintenance $868, 50 percent tax-deductible. Asking price $469,000, on market 12 weeks.
While Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have been the subject of intense press coverage in recent days, there has been little discussion that these government-sponsored enterprises are responsible for financing billions of dollars in multifamily rental housing.These GSEs provide for
