Articles by Stephen Smith


27 Havemeyer Street, image from Google Maps

Permits Filed: 27 Havemeyer Street, Williamsburg

Williamsburg’s trendy Northside is jam-packed with some of the most unattractive structures of any close-in New York City neighborhood, with the simple-but-handsome faces of the area’s 19th century wood-frame homes disfigured decades ago by tacky vinyl paneling….

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387 Bleecker Street, image from Google Maps

Permits Filed: 387 Bleecker Street, Bushwick

As rents, home values and land costs have risen throughout northern Brooklyn, small rental buildings have been pushed eastward. The R6 zoning around the the Myrtle–Wyckoff Avenues L and M stop, in Bushwick and Ridgewood, is relatively…

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