Here’s What Happened on Brownstoner Last Week: Brooklyn to Become NYC's Medical Marijuana HQ?

Properties in Development

Brooklyn’s tallest building has almost topped out. Closer to earth, a Williamsburg building is slated for demolition, and Greenland Forest City Partners filed for a permit to build a 26-story condominium tower in the Atlantic Yards/Pacific Park project. We learned more about what’s coming in Phase 3 of Downtown Brooklyn’s City Point — it involves a four-story mall and 500 new residential units — while Phase 2 tops out at 43 stories.

Meanwhile, here is a church… but where is the steeple?

Openings and Closings

It looks as if a wine bar might be coming to Bed Stuy, in the old Celestino space.

Politics

The votes have been tallied in all the City Council districts taking part in the City’s participatory budgeting process, and you can see the results on an interactive map. Some time in the next year, the Landmarks Preservation Commission will vote on the proposed designation of the Bedford Historic District.

The Week in Walkabouts

Montrose Morris recounted the history of a gorgeous block of Stuyvesant Heights row houses, the man who brought stagecoaches to Brooklyn, the Gowanus Catholic school that became an apartment building, the Prosser mansions of Stuyvesant Avenue, and the 19th century real estate developer who wanted to split New York into two states. (He was tired of his taxes going to pay for “hay and pumpkins.”)

OMG

A Cobble Hill town house was sold for a record $15.5 million. (Horses used to live there.) Medical marijuana may be on its way to Downtown Brooklyn.