Tag: affordable housing
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A Garden is Soon to Grow in Greenpoint
http://www.greenpointstar.com/view/full_story/17290386/article-A-garden-is-soon-to-grow-in-Greenpoint
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Former HPD Commissioner to Head CPC, Domino Developer
http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20120110/REAL_ESTATE/120119991/1072
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Douglaston to Develop Third Toll Tower
The Wall Street Journal (via Brownstoner) reports that Douglaston Development, the developer of the Edge condos, has bought a vacant tower site next door at Toll Brother’s Northside Piers development. Douglaston plans to erect a 40-story luxury rental on the site. Both Douglaston and Toll have sites for third towers on their properties – Douglaston…
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Affordable Bushwick Homes’ Fate Uncertain in Wake of HPD Scandal
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2011/10/10/2011-10-10_affordable_bushwick_homes_fate_uncertain_in_wake_of_hpd_scandal_bklyn_housing_li.html
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NY Housing Official Hit with Corruption Charges
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/07/nyregion/nyc-housing-official-is-among-7-charged-with-bribery.html
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In a Bronx Complex, Doing Good Mixes With Looking Good
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/26/arts/design/via-verde-in-south-bronx-rewrites-low-income-housing-rules.html
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11 Broadway Update
From Curbed, 11 Broadway gets a new (tan) facade. The building is about halfway up, and Curbed reports that it is slated to open (possibly with a grocery store) towards the end of 2012.
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Crown Vic
Interesting item on CB1’s crowded liquor license agenda this month – an application for a bar at 60 South 2nd Street, to be called Crown Victoria. A bar, on a list of 34 bars and restaurants (it was a quiet month), is not that interesting. But the location is – this is a site that…
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For Williamsburg Renters, Look But Don’t Swim
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/03/nyregion/brooklyn-neighbors-share-landlord-but-not-amenities.html
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Pfizer Plant Sold
Two years after abandoning an attempt to redevelop its sprawling former manufacturing complex in Brooklyn, drug giant Pfizer announced Monday that it had reached a surprise agreement to sell a piece of that property to Acumen Capital Partners of Long Island City. Surprise move indeed. Then talk for a long time was that this site…