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Developer To Demolish 2 Brooklyn Homes, Build Apartment Complex
Two homes in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens will be torn down so developers can build a seven-story apartment building, city records show.

Two homes in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens will be torn down so developers can build a seven-story apartment building, city records show.

The city has filed plans to begin redeveloping the Bedford-Union Armory, records show.

Protesters will gather at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden to protest a 42-story building that could cast a dark shadow over the grounds.
Two tenants associations are suing landlords who either ignore dangerous conditions or send incapacitated workers to repair them.
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"If anything happened to either of us, if anything happened to our son, we’d never forgive ourselves," Coates wrote last year.
The Lefferts Gardens residents are determined to stop a condo building from coming to 176 Fenimore St.
Fenimore Street residents are organizing to stop a new apartment building from coming to their corner.
The meeting on the Armory is still taking place Feb. 2, but it's been moved across the street.
The company announced that it secured $63 million in financing for the project.
The two three-story, six-unit buildings will be built at 327 and 329 Rutland Rd.
The affordable housing lottery for 38 Sixth Avenue will kick off this Friday.
Longtime resident Richard Walkes says he's trying to get about 450 buildings landmarked in the neighborhood.
Community Board 9 voted Tuesday to partner with the Fenimore Street Block Association on its rezoning application.
BFC Partners was picked by the city to redevelop the massive property, but its initial pitch is facing some community resistance.
State pol Diana Richardson calls out city pol Laurie Cumbo in a feisty Facebook live video: "We're not into statements. We're into action."
The 20,000-square-foot space on Dean Street, behind the Berg'n beer hall, will instead be filled by 5 smaller tenants, says a leasing agent.
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The lottery for 535 Carlton will open on July 15. The building is reserved for low, middle, and moderate-income earners.
Studios and one-bedrooms are renting for $822 per month. Two and three-bedrooms are also available.
The site at 1548 Bedford Ave. formerly hosted a gas station and a Dunkin' Donuts.
An application has been submitted to turn a garage on President Street into a six-story apartment building with a synagogue down below.
A new building at the lot will host two families and a business on the first floor.
One- and two-bedroom apartments are available at 505 St. Marks Ave.
Researchers also found that in the last 15 years, the local population has become about 10 percent whiter.
The reporter and author had planned to move his family from Paris to Prospect-Lefferts Gardens this summer, according to his broker.
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A study shows New York workers, especially those who live near NYC, must earn up to $11 more per hour to afford rent.
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