Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Palestinian Restaurant Opens in Bushwick

Affordable Housing Lottery Opens in Crown Heights With Units From $454

A truly affordable housing lottery has opened for 36 apartments in a new 100 percent affordable development in Crown Heights, with units starting at $454 a month. Dubbed Weeksville Place, the new eight-story, 45-unit building has risen on a formerly vacant and overgrown lot.

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Let There Be Light: The Big and Shiny Pier Mirrors of Victorian Brooklyn

If you are a peruser of the Brooklyn real estate listings, a fan of Brooklyn domestic architecture or live in an old Brooklyn home, you have surely heard frequent mention of pier mirrors as an original feature to envy. What is a pier mirror exactly? A pier mirror, or pier glass, is a large mirror designed to fit on the wall space between two windows. They were often designed to hang above a pier table — that is, a table supported by a single pier or column. Hence the name.

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Windsor Terrace Prewar With Three Bedrooms, Six Closets Asks $1.4 Million

This apartment in a Windsor Terrace co-op is roomier than most and appears move-in ready, with parquet floors, a large kitchen, and six closets. Its many windows — 11, to be exact — are arrayed along three exposures, presumably offering good light and ventilation.

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Three Downtown Buildings Demolished for Skyscraper With Colorful Lights at Night

Three buildings in Downtown Brooklyn, at 8-16 Nevins Street, are being knocked down to make way for a new 28-story tower. The demolition is quite far along, as is apparent from these photos taken on Tuesday. The developer, Bushburg Properties, plans to build a 124,287-square-foot building on the site with 149 apartments as well as some affordable units.

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Palestinian Restaurant Ayat to Open Outpost and ‘Nonprofit’ Cafe in Bushwick

Popular Palestinian restaurant Ayat is expanding to Bushwick’s Knickerbocker Avenue with a new outpost, and next door on Starr Street it is debuting what it describes as a nonprofit cafe that supports humanitarian causes locally and across the globe.

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