A proposed 15-story mixed-use development on polluted land in a protected industrial area is facing blowback from locals who accuse the builders of bypassing public scrutiny by applying for an obscure city zoning variance to push through the contentious project.
Newly spotted renderings of the planned building, located at 640 Columbia Street, show the full scope of the project along with detailed views of the design of each of its eventual three floors.
The complex would bring apartments, offices, light manufacturing, restaurants and art spaces to the historic waterfront neighborhood.
After a fire that was deemed intentional, developers are readying plans for a new warehouse on the site of the historic S.W. Bowne Grain Storehouse in Red Hook.
Brooklyn Public Library's Wolcott Street stacks were supposed to undergo a $15 million revamp starting this fall to flood proof the building and add space for area bookworms.
Brooklyn isn't seeing the COVID-driven exodus Manhattan is experiencing, she observes. "People still want to stay in Brooklyn."
City arts organizations unveiled a pair of photo exhibits on construction fences along two public housing complexes in Red Hook last week.
The Red Hook Fairway may be gone but its spirit will live on in the space’s coming Food Bazaar, according to the chain supermarket’s executive vice president.
Packed in the hold of a 1946 steel-hulled schooner, sacks of Hudson Valley malt and corn sailed into Brooklyn last week.
The grocer will offer high quality produce and fish at more affordable prices than Fairway, as well as hard-to-find international goods, said the store's new landlord.
