This weekend, all your favorite markets are back: Brooklyn Flea runs Saturday in Fort Greene and Sunday in Williamsburg, Smorgasburg runs Saturday at the same Williamsburg location, and SmorgasBrewery runs Sunday afternoons at the Brooklyn Brewery Tast... »
Today Prospect Heights Patch reported that the Triangle Sports Building, put up for sale in January, sold and will become a neighborhood-friendly restaurant. Apparently five restaurants bid for the space, including Hooters. (Hooters also approached Pin... »
Park Slope 117 Berkeley Place Corcoran Sunday, 3:00-4:30 $1,900,000 GMAP P*Shark Prospect Heights 218 St. Marks Avenue Brown Harris Stevens Sunday, 12:00-1:30 $2,999,000 GMAP P*Shark Boerum Hill 270 Dean Street Realty on the Greene Sunday, 1:00-3:00 $1... »
Welcome to the Hot Seat, where we interview folks involved in Brooklyn real estate, architecture, development, and the like. Introducing Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley, husband and wife filmmaking team. Michael and Suki got lots of attention upon the... »
Touch-a-Truck Brooklyn On April 28th, PS295, The Studio School for Arts & Culture will host Brooklyn’s second Touch-A-Truck street fair. At this exciting family event, kids will have a chance to climb inside and explore some of the working trucks and v... »
Brooklyn, one building at a time. Name: Quarters A: Former Commandant’s House, Brooklyn Navy Yard Address: 24 Evans Street Cross Streets: Plymouth and Hudson Streets, behind private gate. Neighborhood: Vinegar Hill Year Built: 1805-1806 Architectural S... »
We’ve been trying to get to the 800,000+ historical photos the city has just put up online for awhile now, but the server is often overloaded. Anyway, we got a look at some of the offerings today, and they’re magical. A few more tasty shots on the jump... »
This 25-foot-wide townhouse at 314 State Street that just hit the market is pretty impressive. In addition to the princely scale, the two-family has been immaculately renovated in a traditional manner. The only thing we’re not wild about is the new flo... »
The Insider is Brownstoner’s weekly interior design and renovation column. It’s written by Cara Greenberg, also a contributing editor at the newly launched New York Cottages & Gardens, from which this post is adapted. Find it here every Thursday at 11:... »
Dumbo Reported by Dumbo NYC, the Brooklyn Roasting Company is tripling its size. Dumbo NYC, who thinks this is the best coffee and espresso in the nabe, says: “They’ve taken over the space next door at 25 Jay Street and working on adding more productio... »
The development at 175 Vanderbilt Avenue, rebranded as Fino175 last year, just can’t seem to make a go of it. This was previously a condo building, but now one- and two-bedroom rental units are on the market for $2,850 to $5,000/month. (It looks like t... »
Brooklyn, one building at a time. Name: Commercial/residential building Address: 375 379 Flatbush Avenue Cross Streets: Corner Sterling Place Neighborhood: Prospect Heights Year Built: 1885 Architectural Style: Neo-Grec with Second Empire details Archi... »
Signage popped up at 635 Vanderbilt Avenue, the space formerly occupied by Eton in Prospect Heights that closed last October. Apparently this new joint will be called “The Back Grill,” although we don’t have any more details for you. If you’ve heard an... »
Yesterday Crain’s reported that 183 Columbia Heights, the last of three Jehovah’s Witnesses properties brokerage Massey Knakal was marketing, sold for $6.6 million. A managing member of the group of investors that purchased the property had this to say... »
We didn’t cover the Community Board 6 liquor license meeting yesterday in the flesh, but other outlets are reporting that the board’s committee on such matters approved the license for Barclays Center and then gave a thumbs-down to Kemistry Lounge, a n... »
