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City Planners 'Deeply Concerned' As BBG Towers Proposal Kicks Off
Skepticism was high as a proposal for towers near the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens started its journey through the city's review process Monday.

Skepticism was high as a proposal for towers near the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens started its journey through the city's review process Monday.

Shimon Rosenfeld is accused of using millions from real estate investors, including for a Crown Heights project, for his own trading.

A new building on Bergen Street hit the affordable housing lottery this week.
Three buildings in Central Brooklyn have hit the affordable housing lottery.
These two Brooklyn neighborhoods were the only ones to crack a list of the 50 Most Affordable Neighborhoods in NYC this year.
The city took the next step this week toward transforming a long-vacant school site on Church Avenue into 130 units of affordable housing.
One-time tenants of 1214 Dean St., who were evicted this summer, hope to join a lawsuit the city is pursuing against their former landlords.
See where Prospect Heights fell on a list of the 50 most expensive neighborhoods in NYC.
A judge overturned a 2018 Franklin Ave. rezoning the same day that Mayor Bill de Blasio came out against another rezoning down the block.
New York City rents have fallen more this year than they did during the Great Recession, according to a StreetEasy study.
Jason Korn, who has tried to evict tenants on President Street, was named the city's worst private landlord for the second year in a row.
A temporary restraining order on the rezoning needed for the Franklin Avenue development was tossed by a judge, the Brooklyn Paper reported.
Two new developments hit the affordable housing lottery, with apartments up for grabs for those between $15,000 and $62,000 salaries.
A months-long rent strike brought on by the pandemic on President Street is heating up as the landlord threatens eviction, Curbed reports.
Two Brooklyn buildings, including one with 58 senior residences, have joined the city's affordable housing lottery.
Neighbors are worried about a city housing project that brings dozens of units to an area a block from the Atlantic Yards mega-development.
A workshop next week will ask for ideas about two city-owned properties, on Bergen and Dean streets, that are slated for affordable housing.
A temporary restraining order on the rezoning that is needed for the controversial Franklin Avenue development was granted this week.
Spikes in demand for the last three months show the housing market is bouncing back from pandemic levels, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Prices that had stayed steady through the COVID-19 crisis are finally dropping, but not in all neighborhoods, according to a Curbed report.
Plans for a 10-story building on Bedford Avenue and a five-story building on Utica Avenue were recently filed with the city, records show.
A luxury apartment building on Ashland Place trying to fill vacancies has applications open for those with "middle-incomes."
Several neighborhoods in Brooklyn saw increased demand from renters even as the coronavirus plunged New York City's housing market.
Rents for two buildings in Prospect Heights go for as low as $700 up to nearly $4,000 a month, according to the lottery listing.
"Most of the people cannot pay rent,” said one out-of-work Crown Heights tenant facing an April 1 payment she cannot make.
A block of mostly two-story homes on President Street soon could have a hulking, eight-story neighbor, according to recently filed plans.
Renters who make up to $125,000 a year can apply for affordable housing in a new Lincoln Place building among a row of brick houses.
A buyer entered a $2.99 million contract for a condo overlooking Grand Army Plaza and Prospect Park, according to a luxury sales report.
A proposed eight-story tower in Weeksville will have 44 affordable housing units for the formerly homeless, seniors and low-income families.
The housing lottery is offering Crown Heights apartments in new Empire Boulevard building for people who make at least $65,000 a year.
Developers plan to erect a six-story building at 408 Lefferts Ave. on the site of three former homes, according to records.
The city's Landmarks Preservation Commission gave a thumbs up to a planned new home on Pacific Street, according to reports.
Home sellers in seven Brooklyn neighborhoods, led by Crown Heights, got 97 percent of their asking prices, a new StreetEasy study found.
Home prices in Crown Heights and Prospect Lefferts Gardens fell as much as $427,000 in January. We'll tell you where.
Income requirements to apply for studio apartment in new Prospect Lefferts Gardens complex cap off at $110,000.
The NYC housing lottery seeks applicants who make at least $72,000 a year in a borough where a typical salary is just $56,000.
A lawsuit claims landlords used fraud and false filings to price gouge rent-stabilized Crown Heights tenants.
141 apartments in a new Linden Boulevard tower have hit the affordable housing lottery, but only for those making at least $73,000 a year.
City officials have begun filing plans for a 45-unit affordable housing complex near the Weeksville Heritage Center, records show.
A new survey shows a proposed Prospect Heights historic district has been preserved with as much integrity as other landmarked districts.