Overall, the average sales prices for the city was $981,000, the Real Estate Board of New York found. Source: Average Home Prices Hit Record Highs in Brooklyn, Queens and Bronx: Report – Ridgewood – DNAinfo New Yorkreadmore
By Kings County News Service Despite a Bedford-Stuyvesant source with inside knowledge saying the city has decided to not put in a controversial homeless drop-in center at 1217 Bedford Avenue, both the City’s Department of Homeless Services (DHS) and the non-profit organization slated to run the center say the site is still being evaluated. Either […]readmore
By Akosua K. Albritton Perhaps longtime residents of Bedford-Stuyvesant can identify with Native Americans. Just as the indigenous people of this land were pushed westward across rivers and mountains to make space for the expanding United States territory, “Bed-Stuy homies” are being displaced from their homes. The hardest hit are those that rent. Take Linda […]readmore
By Akosua K. Albritton Deemed one of the oldest and most important 19th century mansions in the Crown Heights North Historic District, the Dean Sage Mansion, along with the convent for the St. Gregory the Great R.C. Church and the garden at 839 St. Marks Avenue (Block 1222-Lot 1), has served Brooklyn as supportive housing […]readmore
Investors from ultra-Orthodox sect have spent $2.5B+ in 5 areas over the past decade: TRD analysis By Mark Maurer, The Real Deal TRD Special Report: On the day before Thanksgiving, Yoel Goldman phoned one of his go-to lenders with an urgent request. The Brooklyn developer, who heads All Year Management, wanted to score a construction loan for his Albee […]readmore
By Akosua K. Albritton Like so many Brooklyn neighborhoods, Flatbush and East Flatbush are experiencing unsettling change. They have been known for decades as strongholds for people of Caribbean descent—English and Creole-speaking. In fact, Flatbush is known as “Little Haiti” and claims to have more Haitians residing there than in Port-au-Prince. Block after block along […]readmore