New buildings of greater than 100 units tend to cluster in Manhattan and close-in neighborhoods of Brooklyn and Queens, but today, Midwood joins in on the action. The first filings are up for an 8-story…
In September, YIMBY brought you photos of a recently completed commercial tower in an unlikely location – 902 Quentin Road, just off Kings Highway, near the border between Midwood and Sheepshead Bay in southern Brooklyn….
The area around Kings Highway, in between Midwood (sometimes known, especially by its Orthodox Jewish residents, as Flatbush) and Sheepshead Bay, has been a magnet for very wealthy segments of New York’s Russian and Syrian Jewish…
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…
In much of the city, masonry fell out of favor generations ago, with buyers and renters instead preferring the clean lines and large windows of glassy modernism. But among Brooklyn’s Orthodox Jews – whether they be ultra-Orthodox…
