In June, the New York Post’s Lois Weiss reported that a prime piece of land in downtown Brooklyn, at 1 Flatbush Avenue, where Brooklyn’s main street meets Fulton Street, had gone into contract to a…
Extell’s plans for a new condominium tower at 1010 Park Avenue have already proven controversial, even prior to the project’s scheduled hearing at the L, which is set for today. Now, YIMBY has a rendering of…
While the development industry’s attention has been chiefly focused on Manhattan and Brooklyn, the real estate boom in Jersey City is just getting started. And now, it is finally extending to Journal Square; this morning, ground will…
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…
When it was built in the 1880s, the red brick Queen Anne-style home that still stands at 890 Park Avenue was used as a single-family mansion. A stockbroker named Harry A. Groesbeck and his family were the…
