Last Week in Brooklyn Openings and Closings

BROOKLYN, NY — It's Monday, which means it's time to look back at the openings, closings, and real estate-related stories that made news in Brooklyn last week:

Bed-Stuy

• A vacant lot on Quincy Street is going to become a new four-story apartment building.
• The city has officially recognized Tranquility Farm as a park.

BoCoCa

• Cobble Hill's soon-to-close BookCourt is selling its bookshelves online.
• Meanwhile, a property on Atlantic Avenue has reportedly sold for $10.3 million.
• And in Carroll Gardens, Smith & Vine is preparing to move down the street.

Bushwick

• 23,000 square feet of new sidewalks have come to the Hope Gardens housing development.

Clinton Hill

• You can now apply for affordable units in this new development on Myrtle Avenue.

Ditmas Park and Flatbush

• In recent years, both communities have led Brooklyn in evictions, a new study shows.

Dumbo

• Jared Kushner has snapped up 85 Jay St. for a nifty $345 million.

Gowanus

• The Morbid Anatomy Museum shut its doors, but its co-founder says the project accomplished many of the goals she set out when it opened.
• A planned Crunch Gym on Smith Street received its first community vote of confidence.

East New York

• A new 200-unit affordable development is coming to Cypress Hills.

Park Slope

• New York Methodist Hospital has completed a merger with NewYork-Presbyterian.

Propsect-Lefferts Gardens

• A new landmarking effort is underway focused on the neighborhood's southern reaches.

Red Hook

• Community Board 6's land use committee approved a developer's request to cut the required parking spaces at the planned Red Hoek Point by half.

Williamsburg

• A star-studded list of performers is scheduled for the opening of new neighborhood concert venue Brooklyn Steel.

And here were the ten most expensive Brooklyn neighborhoods to buy a home in last year.

Pictured at top:celebrants outside Tranquility Farm in Bed-Stuy. Image courtesy of Tranquility Farm.