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Notorious East Village Landlord Uses Street Art to Paint a Prettier Picture
(Photo: Nicole Disser) Earlier this year, when the East Village’s beloved Stage Restaurant closed in the wake of a dispute with its landlord Icon Realty Management, Brooklyn-based artist Gilf!...
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Sparkly New Condo Smells Funny? Find Out If It’s Industrial Poison With This Map
(Screenshot via ToxiCity map, Neighbors Allied for Good Growth and Pratt) Depending on where you look, North Brooklyn is still replete with rusty reminders of its fairly recent manufacturing past, but...
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With City’s Offer Expired, Sun Might Be Setting on Bushwick Inlet Park
(Photo: Matthew Caton) After 60 days on the table, the city’s offer to pay the former CitiStorage site’s owner $100 million for the final parcel of the long-promised Bushwick Inlet Park has officially...
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New Report Shows Housing Inventory’s Up, Brooklyn Rents Drop (Barely)
(Photo: Daniel Maurer) NYC real estate firm Douglas Elliman published a report this morning, showing that the development boom in New York City has had a significant impact on the real estate market....
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New, Upscale ‘Industrial Arts Complex’ for Bushwick Artists in Search of...
(Rendering courtesy of Mann Group) We’ve known about the impending “injection of luxury” slated for Bushwick– the three- and four-story types have been popping up for a while now, and emerging...
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New Millennial-Friendly Hotel Threatens Historic East Village Tenements
Protestors organized against the new Moxy Hotel and demolition of historic buildings (Photo: Nicole Disser) Yesterday afternoon a group of vocal protesters gathered along East 11th Street, facing a row...
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The 11 A-holes You Meet in Renderings
120 North 6th Street Whenever we ogle the renderings of future buildings slated for construction, our eye is drawn to the aspirational humans within. They’re always pretty good for a laugh, and an idea...
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Protesters Urge Council Member to Curb Luxury Housing in Chinatown and LES
De Blasio as Monopoly man. (Photo: Nicole Disser) Perhaps you thought that the Coalition to Protect Chinatown and the Lower East Side sounded angry earlier this year when about 60 activists associated...
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How a Bunch of Brave New Futurists Zapped the Old Pearl River Mart Back to Life
A booth dedicated to the old Pearl River Mart (Photo: Nicole Disser) “Preservationist” has become something of a slur, used to denigrate the old-timers and neo-hippies who’d rather save ratty old...
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Westminster Cares? Tenants of Trump Son-in-Law Jared Kushner Say Not So Much
One of Jared Kushner’s buildings, 118 East 4th Street, where tenants have taken legal action against their landlord (Photo courtesy of Streeteasy) After months of pleading with Westminster City Living...
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