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The outdoor Flea season but we're not missing a beat: We got the keys to the old Tower Records space on Lafayette and East 4th streets in Manhattan yesterday and our window dressers worked overtime last night to get the

Calling all chicken lovers! A new five-story building is going up at 452 Lafayette Avenue in Bed Stuy, right next door to . The structure is slated to have eight residential units.

The quirky vintage design store Astro-Turf at 290 Smith Street in Carroll Gardens has been closed for most of the past year and a half or so, after initially closing for some brick repair in early 2008. Now, , the

When 471 Decatur Street was an back in June of 2008, its asking price was $895,000. Now the three-story brownstone is listed for $695,000. Though it's located in one of the nicer parts of Bed Stuy and is in decent

As residents of Clinton Hill and longtime readers of this blog know, the drug dealing and related violence at the corner of Grand and Putnam avenues has long been a scourge on the neighborhood. A couple of weeks ago, a

1. BROOKLYN HEIGHTS $3,310,00047 Sidney Place (left)When this 2-family was a in September '08, it had just been listed for $5,250,000; by it was asking $3,600,000. Entered into contract on 10/9/09; closed on 11/9/09; deed recorded on 11/19/09.2. DUMBO $1,750,00030

Remember that landscaping project slated for East River State Park in Williamsburg that we were about that month? Well, it's in full swing, as a visit this past weekend confirmed. We were kinda digging the raw simplicity of the existing

This is the last in a series of five articles chronicling the life and works of 19th century Brooklyn architect Montrose W. Morris. The previous articles can be found The twenty years between 1885 and 1905 must have been a

Park Slope is really moving up in the world. Sections of the neighborhood's most commercial avenues are scheduled to have their old single meters replaced by the more modern muni-meters. The affected areas include Fifth Avenue between Sackett and 3rd

Carl Icahn outbid Penn National Gaming to place a starting bid of $155 million for the Fontainebleau, the stalled Las Vegas hotel-and-casino project whose construction is expected to cost nearly $3.5 billion.

Mortgage chief says restructuring loans isn't enough as unemployment rises.

Video scandal cost nonprofit group its federal funding at a time when its mortgage-counseling services are in high demand.

Program will give ordinary home buyers an exclusive window to bid before property investors. Deposite requirements would also be dropped for owner-occupants.

A year in, new CEO brings listed real-estate investment firm bank from brink. But challenges remain and the jury is still out.