Williamsburg

70 & 80 Lorimer Street

Revealed: 70 & 80 Lorimer Street, South Williamsburg

In 2009, the Broadway Triangle – formerly industrial land bounded by Flushing, Union, and Broadway, – was rezoned, somewhat controversially, for residential development catering to ultra-Orthodox Jewish condo buyers from nearby South Williamsburg. A few years later, a smaller…

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105 South Fifth Street, rendering from Dattner

Permits Filed: 105 South Fifth Street, Williamsburg

With land prices now rising beyond $400 a foot in spots, Williamsburg has become an increasingly inhospitable place for affordable housing development (even 80/20 rentals are no longer viable for newly bought sites). But the Landmarks Preservation Commission salvage warehouse at…

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