September 20, 2009

Just sold!

allowscriptaccess="always" allownetworking="all" allowfullscreen="true" of months of planning, the holiday market is almost upon us. (ABC Eyewitness News just ran tonight!) You'll recognize some of the 50-odd vendors set up in the old Tower Records space on Lafayette and East 4th

The six-story new development at 113 South 6th Street (at Bedford Avenue) is almost fully formed and, given that the architect is Henry Radusky, isn't looking so bad to us. It's relatively in scale, has decent-sized windows and doesn't involve

A sign has gone up in the window of the small 5th Avenue boutique Love=? announcing its imminent closing. But hey, haven't we heard this song before? Yep: In the store also had a sign up saying it was going

481 4th Street hit the market back in June with an asking price of $2,950,000. When it got the House of the Day treatment at the time, the pricing widget was not kind, producing an average price of $2,146,765. Giving

It's gonna be hard to find a more charming one-bedroom than this second-floor co-op at 39 Remsen Street in Brooklyn Heights. And if it weren't for the Ikea kitchen (whichwe don't generally have a problem with but doesn't really work

Tanoreen's New DigsThe new Tanoreen storefront, located just across the street and down the block from the current location in Bay Ridge, is looking good — we can't wait to grab a seat in the sun room jutting off the

s move from 166 Water Street to its new digs at 72 Front Street in Dumbo appears to have gone even more smoothly than expected. The home furnishings store was already up and running on Front Street this week, though

Some of the sales recorded last week that went for $1 million or less:$250K or under: CROWN HEIGHTS345 Montgomery Street, #1F; Price=$190,000 This 2-bedroom was first listed for $279,000 in December '07, according to , and by the time it

For December, I'd like to feature my favorite buildings, and yours. Each column will highlight favorite buildings in mostly Brownstone Brooklyn: row houses, apartment houses, free standing homes, churches, commercial buildings, schools and civic buildings, as well as favorite architectural

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As we reported earlier in the week, was being demolished because the DOB found it to be unsound. And as of yesterday, the demolition was just about complete. [Brownstoner]

When we passed by this weekend, we were pleased to see that a temporary bike lane had been erected where Kent Avenue bears right into Williamsburg Street. That stretch can be a little hairy for bicyclists.

The ship may have sailed (or at least be sailing) as far as turning the Forte into affordable housing, but Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries hasn't given up on turning another luxury development in the area into shelter for the non-wealthy. In

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