Brooklyn


1170 & 1174 East 8th Street, image from Google Maps

Permits Filed: 1170 East 8th Street, Midwood

Gravesend is known for its opulent 21st century mansions, built mostly by Sephardic Jews from Syria in the decreasingly Italian neighborhood in southern Brooklyn. The area most heavily blanketed in huge new homes is the part of Gravesend…

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97 Douglass Street, rendering from Atelier Architecture

Revealed: 97 Douglass Street, Carroll Gardens

The leafy streets of Carroll Gardens have been built out for generations. And because the neighborhood didn’t decline as precipitously as some in Brooklyn during the postwar years, there weren’t many abandoned and torn down buildings that…

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