Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Affordable Housing Lottery in Brownsville
Catch up on your reading with a look at the most popular stories from the past week.
Top 10 Brooklyn Real Estate Listings: A Flatbush Condo, a Gowanus Row House
The most popular listings on Brownstoner this week include a Cobble Hill condo, a Bed Stuy brownstone and a two-family in Hudson, N.Y.
This Picturesque Italianate Villa, on the Market for $625K, Was Home to Two Newburgh Architects
Designed in 1839 by architect Thornton M. Niven, it sits on one of the most scenic stretches in a town noted for 19th century architectural greats.
Ex Head of Boerum Hill Association on How to Help Atlantic Avenue Shops
Now helming the Atlantic Avenue Local Development Corporation, Howard Kolins outlines the challenges local businesses are facing during the pandemic.
Brooklyn Coronavirus Update and Open Thread: Small Business, Commercial Rent (5/22/20)
The Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce has set up a fund to help Brooklyn's 63,000 businesses called Bring Back Brooklyn.
Brooklyn Real Estate Six Months Later: Two Sold, One Available, One Off the Market
Another week, another look back at four of our featured listings from six months ago, focusing on homes in Beverly Square West, Fort Greene, Windsor Terrace and Cobble Hill.
Daily Links: Commercial Rent Payments Drop, NYC Heads Toward June Reopening
In the News
- Can Coney Island Survive This? [NYT]
- Commercial Rent Payments Plummet in NYC [NYT]
- Homeless New Yorkers in Swank Brooklyn Hotel Spark Resident Fears [NYP]
- Housing Court Begins Virtual Conferences on Pending Eviction Matters [Eagle]
- Environmentalists Demand National Grid Halt North Brooklyn Pipeline [BP]
- City On Its Way to Begin Reopening by Early June, de Blasio Says [amNY]
- A Brooklyn Doctor on the Mystery Illness Affecting Children [NYFamily]
- Pantry Seeks Help to Prep Packages for Holocaust Survivors [Greenpointers]
- De Blasio Launches Coronavirus Response Plan for Nursing Homes [Gothamist]
- Public School Families to Receive $420 Per Child for Food Benefits [Chalkbeat]
- Elected Officials to Mayor: Finish the Brooklyn Greenway [Streetsblog]
LPC Approves Design for Public Open Space Under the Brooklyn Bridge
At a virtual public hearing this week, Landmarks gave the go-ahead to plans for Brooklyn Bridge Plaza, our sister pub Brooklyn Paper reports.
Duplex in Heights Greek Revival With Mantels, Laundry, Private Garden Asks $12,000 a Month
This duplex in an early 19th century Brooklyn Heights Greek Revival is elegant and historic, as well as primely located, with a price to match.
Brooklyn Coronavirus Update and Open Thread: Unemployment (5/21/20)
Unemployment claims reached 2.4 million in the last week, bringing the total since the shutdown to nearly 39 million claims, or 14.7 percent
Credit Scores, Interest Rates, Search Strategies: Watch This Free Brownstoner Webinar Video
The minimum credit score lenders require has gone up from 580 to now 640.
Italian Expat Photographer Documents Brooklynites on Their Stoops During Pandemic
"The stoops allow for socializing -- at a 6-foot distance -- and some kind of community building," writer and photographer Francesca Magnani told Brownstoner.
