Thursday Blogwrap: “Suspicious” Fire at Fiske Terrace Victorian Hurts Six
"Suspicious" Fiske Terrace Blaze Leaves Six Injured, Victorian in Ruins [NY Daily News] Worker Kil...
Cate Corcoran
Cate Corcoran has written for The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Wired, and San Francisco. She is renovating a wood frame house in Brooklyn and is obsessed with real estate, renovation, and places that time forgot.
Pacific Park Modular Woes: FOIL Docs Reveal a “Rain Barrel” of Leaks Delayed B2 Tower
The modular tower known as B2, nestled against Barclays Center at 461 Dean Street in the Pacific P...
Thursday Links: City Moves to Foreclose on 162 Brooklyn Properties Behind on Taxes
City to Foreclose on 162 Properties in Brooklyn [NY Post] At Williamsburg Starbucks, It’s Americ...
Wednesday Blogwrap: Improvements Coming to Fort Greene Library
Fort Greene Families Celebrate Impending Improvements at Whitman Library [Fort Greene Focus] Anti...
Preservationists Say Landmarks Bill Would Let Building Owners Game the System
The clock is ticking for more than one proposed landmark. A bill setting time limits on how long t...
Revamped Kings Theatre in Flatbush Sells to Ambassador Theater Chain
Perhaps nothing is as emblematic of both the old and new Brooklyn as the newly restored Kings Thea...
Wednesday Links: Council Member Cumbo Offers Participatory Budgeting for First Time
At the Food Sermon, Keeping the Faith in Crown Heights [NY Times] For Bernie Sanders, Brooklyn Roo...
Tom Fruin Artwork Shines on Top of Former Broken Angel Condo Building in Clinton Hill
Brownstoner happened across this apparently finished installation by artist Tom Fruin on the to...
Bushwick Mural House to Be Razed for Apartments as Sellers Close Nearby Cafe
Bushwick's mural-covered house at 104 Central Avenue, which seems to have launched a trend of colo...
Big Apartment Building on Lexington in Clinton Hill Reaches Second Floor
An old one-story factory that occupied most of its large lot at 10 Lexington Avenue in Clinton Hil...
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