Articles by Rebecca Baird-Remba


383 Troutman Street, image via Google Maps

Permits Filed: Theater Conversion at 383 Troutman Street, Bushwick

YIMBY has noticed all kinds of interesting conversions in the industrial area between Morgan Avenue and Jefferson Avenue in Buswhick, where restrictive zoning and rising rents have led landlords to consider transforming old warehouses into night clubs and artist studios. But today we spotted unusual plans for a theater conversion at 383 Troutman Street, in the part of the neighborhood defined by its colorful street art and a growing stretch of bars and restaurants.

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Construction rendering of 209 West 14th Street, photo by tipster

Revealed: 209 West 14th Street, Chelsea

The condo-fication of 14th Street continues with 209 West 14th Street, where a four-story building has just been demolished to make way for eleven stories of apartments. A YIMBY reader sent along photos of a new rendering posted on the construction fence between Seventh and Eighth Avenues last week.

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286 Wythe Avenue, photo by Christopher Bride for PropertyShark

Permits Filed: 286 Wythe Avenue, Williamsburg

One of the last under-developed plots on Williamsburg’s pricey Northside is about to grow a six-story building. Builder Moshe Braver has decided to expand a mid-century brick warehouse at 286 Wythe Avenue, on the corner of North 1st Street, into a 70-foot-tall mixed-use development.

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Broadway Junction on the border of East New York and Ocean Hill, the first two neighborhoods where the city's new mandatory inclusionary zoning will take effect.

The Loophole in de Blasio’s New Mandatory Inclusionary Zoning Policy

On the last day of July, the de Blasio administration quietly introduced a key piece of its plan to build 80,000 affordable units of housing: mandatory inclusionary zoning. The plan will require market-rate developers to set aside at least 25% of their units in each new building as affordable housing. As the city rezones several neighborhoods across the five boroughs, they’ll impose the policy along with the updated zoning—beginning with East New York.

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