Articles by Stephen Smith

1972 Ocean Avenue, image from Google Maps

Permits Filed: 1972 Ocean Avenue, Midwood

Ocean Avenue was once seen as one of Brooklyn’s most desirable streets, and was catnip to developers. In addition to the ornate garden apartment buildings erected in the 1920s, it attracted one of only two pre-war residential…

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820 DeKalb Avenue, before demolition, image by Nicholas Strini for Property Shark

Permits Filed: 820 DeKalb Avenue, Bed-Stuy

Between the properties abandoned and razed during urban decline and a rezoning in 2012 that expanded development opportunities on the avenues, the northern part of Bed-Stuy is fertile terrain for small, largely Hasidic builders, who…

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