Biking over the Williamsburg Bridge last week we were struck by the birds-eye view of 373 Wythe Avenue, a one-story commercial building currently in the process of being dismantled. A little digging turned up this rendering for a 13-story, Karl
The Department of City Planning finally released its proposal for rezoning Gowanus last night at a community board meeting and, as expected, the plan will affect about 25 blocks in the neighborhood, changing those blocks' designation from manufacturing to mixed-use.
Every week, Jennifer Mankins, owner of Park Slope- and Cobble Hill-based boutiques Bird, tells us about the new 2,500-square-foot store on Grand Street in Williamsburg that she's getting ready to open. Last week, we heard about preliminary contractor interviews for
The BP gas station at the corner of Marcy and Myrtle Avenues in Bed Stuy is being cleared out to make way for a new 6-story residential development. And while plans for the new building itself have not yet been
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Prospect Lefferts Gardens and Boerum Hill are both holding their annual home and gardens tour this weekend. A few of the spaces featured on the Prospect Lefferts Gardens tour include: A brother and sister team's conversion of an apartment in
Last Sunday was by far the best weekend yet at the Brooklyn Flea, thanks in part to the weather and in part to the continued evolution of the vendor mix. This weekend look for more of the same, as the
Trump Entertainment Resorts agreed to sell the Trump Marina Hotel Casino to privately held Coastal Development for $316 million, as the company tries to pare its debt. The Atlantic City complex will be rebranded as Margaritaville.
Midsize operators of rental-apartment buildings have found one of the few sweet spots in the market right now. The giants that used to rule the multifamily sector, gobbling up all the best deals, have moved to the sidelines.
Interest rates on mortgages have spiked in the past 10 days, and there's a serious risk that they're going get a lot higher. If you act quick, you can still find some good deals.
The sharpest drop in housing prices in 50 years poses a "significant" risk to the U.S. economy, but the Fed's rate cuts should be felt in the second half of the year, according to one Fed official on Friday.
Recent mortgage and interest rate rises have prompted an influx of available holiday accommodation in Barcelona, and other Spanish holiday cities, just in time for the 2008 peak summer tourist season. (PRWeb May 30, 2008) Read the full story at
The Kilimanjaro peak, the highest in Africa, and at 5,898m (19,340ft) the world's highest free-standing mountain, is not only iconic; it is the tallest that can be climbed without ropes or technical mountaineering skills.
A Grade II listed house in York is so historic that it comes with a sitting tenant: a Roman skeleton. Jonny Beardsall dusts off his fedora for an archaeological adventure.
Ed Mead thinks it's time estate agents put their house in order Telegraph TV: Join Ed Mead on a tour of a dramatic corner house in Notting Hill I have not yet had a chance to meet Minister for Housing
There is a new landmark on the Manchester skyline. Paul Wilkinson reports on the Light House - the most upwardly-mobile building in the Northern Quarter.
Continuing the series in which our Clinic experts provide a guide to those thorny issues that can trip up the unwary. This week, David Snell on noise control Our home has studwork partition walls upstairs and you can hear everything
