Last Week In Brooklyn Openings and Closings

BROOKLYN, NY — Here are some of the openings, closings, and real estate-related stories that made headlines in Brooklyn last week:

Crown Heights

• New details were released on the planned relocation of the Brower Park Library to the Brooklyn Children's Museum.

Dumbo

• Here's your latest look at what's headed for 10 Jay St.

Fort Greene

• Putnam's Pub has started its recovery after a devastating fire, though some of the bar's impacted neighbors say they're being needlessly kept out of their homes by the city.

Gowanus

• Brooklyn author Emma Straub will be opening a new book store on Smith Street this spring.

Park Slope

• Construction on a 70-unit condo building on 4th Avenue is getting underway.
• Community Board 6 wants the outdoor "street seats" at Fifth Avenue and St. Marks Avenue to return for the next three years.

Prospect-Lefferts Gardens

• Ta-Nahesi Coates has sold the Lefferts Gardens brownstone he and his family were never able to move into.
• "Empenada City" has been broken into twice, even though it hasn't opened yet.

Sunset Park

• The city has filed plans to construct a new concrete plant in Sunset Park to be operated by Ferrara Bros., who will be relocating their Gowanus factory to the neighborhood.
• Bush Terminal will be the future home of the "Made in New York" manufacturing campus.
• A new karaoke bar is coming to the corner of 39th Street and Third Avenue.

Williamsburg

• And the 104 affordable apartments to be located in a new development on the site of the former Domino Sugar factory received more than 87,000 lottery applications.

Pictured at top: the future Domino Sugar development in Williamsburg. Image courtesy of Two Trees.